Words

Words, words, and more words.


All Did Not Go According to Keikaku

To be fair, my plan was pretty ambitious. Two months to write a draft? One month to revise it, and one month to beta read it? Oh, my sweet summer child.

Floating lights over a table covered in a red tablecloth that says "Writer's Digest."

The Plan

I’ve always wanted to publish a book. Lots of books, actually, but I suppose I have to start with just the one. And to publish a book, I need to, you know, write a book. Which I’m doing; if you follow me on Twitter at all, you’ve probably noticed that all […]


All Things End 3

“All things end.”
The high priest readied the ceremonial dagger in the flames while the others stood in a ring around the raised slab in the middle of the room.

a group of hooded figures stand in a circle around a sacrifice bound to a slab

The Pros and Cons of Freelancing

Just under three years ago, I participated in a game localization jam in Tokyo that sparked my career as a freelance Japanese to English game translator. It was never my plan to be a translator; in fact, I wrote my undergrad thesis on translation and came to the conclusion that […]


Refugees Go Home

October 2015, Dresden, Germany We’d arrived from Munich a couple days ago, on the 3rd. The sky loomed low and grey, and a tinge of winter chilled the air. It wasn’t cold enough to keep us indoors, though we were weak and ducked into the Altmarket Starbucks for a chai […]

Silhouettes of statues of saints on the Katolische Hofkiche in Dresden, Germany.