Category Archives: Writing about writing

Works In Progress Update Feb 2024

Posted on 15/02/2024 by ValeryNorth

So, this is just a quick post to congratulate myself on having got something creative done over the past month or so. Because I feel like I deserve it for the minuscule amount I’ve achieved. Yay me! Seriously, though – … Continue reading →

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Goodbye 2023, hello 2024

Posted on 01/01/2024 by ValeryNorth

So, another year over, and that I survived. A new one just beginning, bringing who knows what opportunities, challenges and trials. It seems like it’s time to look back and look ahead, achievements and plans, that sort of thing. The … Continue reading →

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Why Shouldn’t Davros Walk?

Posted on 18/11/2023 by ValeryNorth

Apparently, Twitterverse Who fandom is up in arms about a 5 minute skit on Children In Need on Friday night in which the newly-regenerated Doctor crashes into Davros’s laboratory at the moment he reveals the “Mk III Travel Device” to … Continue reading →

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My Eroticon 23 – What I Did With My Holiday

Posted on 13/06/2023 by ValeryNorth

Let’s Get Ready To Rumble For me, Eroticon 2023 did not begin on Friday night with the Meet & Greet. It didn’t even begin that morning as I caught the bus for the first leg of my journey. It began … Continue reading →

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Conversation With A New Protagonist

Posted on 07/10/2022 by ValeryNorth

It is always an immense pleasure when worldbuilding, when a character who inhabits the world just walks up to you out of the masses and the undergrowth, and introduces themselves to you almost fully-formed. I’d been wondering how to make … Continue reading →

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My newest TTRPG is probably my most Queer game to date (and other updates)

Posted on 14/05/2022 by ValeryNorth

A few creative and writing things have happened since my last post, but all of them are to do with tabletop roleplaying games. The most important in a global sense has to be that my first two published games – … Continue reading →

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Oh No, It’s Gender vs Dr Who Again

Posted on 25/11/2021 by ValeryNorth

SPOILERS: I guess Major Spoiler for Doctor Who: Trial Of A Time Lord and minor for Doctor Who: Flux and other recent stories MP Nick Fletcher has been ridiculed for stating that the Doctor in Doctor Who needs to be … Continue reading →

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Sometimes, It Is Just a Friendship

Posted on 02/07/2021 by ValeryNorth

SPOILERS for Lord Of The Rings There’s a whole genre of meme on queer twitter about how historians will bend over backwards, into pretzels, to ignore or explain away evidence that significant historical figures might have been any other orientation … Continue reading →

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I MADE A VIDEO GAME: The Curse Of Breyville House

Posted on 01/02/2021 by ValeryNorth

So one reason I haven’t written as much in the past year and a half is I have been learning how to create video games using visual coding/block style tools. This is so I don’t have to try to make … Continue reading →

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Would You Search Through The Lonely Earth For Me? – Second Playthrough

Posted on 26/08/2020 by ValeryNorth

After my last blog post, in which I talked about Michael Whelan and Zoe Delahunty-Light’s solo journalling TTRPG Would You Search Through The Lonely Earth For Me? and the ways I would play differently if I did it again, well, … Continue reading →

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