Devlog

• Spearhand Faring postmortem
  October 12, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring, #poetry, #postmortem, #writing, #alliterative verse, #verse-craft

  What did I set out to do with Spearhand Faring ? I wanted to play around a bit with one of the lighter stories in Le Morte Darthur . I wanted to write a literary demake , applying an earlier style to... Continue reading
• Spearhand Faring is released!
  September 13, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring, #release, #poetry

  Spearhand Faring is released! You can get your copy right now, right here . Itch's servers seem to be struggling a bit just right now, so I'm not going to write at length here. But I hope to write a p... Continue reading
• Spearhand Faring release date, stream plans
  September 01, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring, #alliterative verse, #blank verse, #poetry, #release, #stream

  Spearhand Faring will be released in full on Saturday 13 September, priced at $5.99, for which you will receive: the full poem in both PDF and EPUB formats a brief set of notes (included in the PDF an... Continue reading

  
• Names for giant robots
  August 16, 2025 by Thaliarchus#alliterative verse, #name conventions, #writing

  One passage in Spearhand Faring requires names for a bunch of armours (giant robots). As long-time readers will know, I think the best way to go about a task like this is to come up with a system to g... Continue reading
• Spearhand Faring and Kin-Bright
  July 22, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring, #poetics, #blank verse, #cosmic warlord kin-bright

  Spearhand Faring stands on its own, and can be read on its own. But Spearhand Faring does relate to Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright , and those who’ve read Kin-Bright might spot connections here and there... Continue reading

  
• Word choices and form changes
  July 08, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring, #lexis, #alliterative verse, #blank verse, #poetics, #syntax

  I’d like to talk through some of the lexical and metrical choices I’ve pursued in Spearhand Faring , and to do so I’ll use the following very short excerpt: So petitioner talked. | Targe-man ans... Continue reading

  
• Second draft of Spearhand Faring is complete
  July 08, 2025 by Thaliarchus#spearhand faring

  I’ve now finished the second draft, and first clean draft of Spearhand Faring : the first draft without parts missing and notes to self about fixing things. Currently it runs to about 12,600 words o... Continue reading
• First draft of Spearhand Faring is complete
  May 09, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring

  I’m happy to report that I’ve now finished the very first, roughest draft of Spearhand Faring . As I’ve said before , projects end many times. This is only the first end, and I've plenty of poli... Continue reading
• Release plans for Spearhand Faring
  April 17, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring

  I've nearly finished the first draft of Spearhand Faring . That doesn't mean that the poem's done: plenty of editing remains. But it's a big step forward. This milestone also makes for a good moment t... Continue reading
• Brief February update
  February 15, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring

  I'm trundling along writing the draft for Spearhand Faring , which now runs to a little over 7500 words. (I'm not quite sure of the exact line-count.) I don't have material that feels ready to share,... Continue reading
• A literary demake
  January 10, 2025 by Thaliarchus

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  #spearhand faring

  Spearhand Faring stems from one part of Malory’s Morte Darthur .* I’ve set out to see what I could take from a story in Malory, with some of his cyclical, stripped-down style, and then retell in f... Continue reading