Nail-biting action
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. After nearly three years of blood, sweat and tears, last week RIVE came out on Steam and PlayStation 4. For just 15...
View ArticlePreparing for an even busier week
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week was rather busy, in a ‘preparing for an even busier week’ kind of way. Sleep was better than the week...
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Rewrote and delivered
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I rewrote and delivered the script for the Antegods comic, which artist Robin Keijzer then started work...
View ArticleI cracked it a couple times before
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This week1 I stayed at the Amsterdam Translators’ House, away from my family, with a simple task: finishing the...
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A number of smaller breakthroughs
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This was my second and last week in the Amsterdam Translators’ House, and it was super productive. I didn’t have a...
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The digital-literary sphere
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This week I visited the Frankfurter Buchmesse. The Netherlands and Flanders were honorary guest and, happily, I was...
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Three things I’d like to discuss briefly
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This week was shorter than usual, as my daughters had an extra day off on Monday, and we all went to Sea Life in The...
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Simple and effective anniversary celebration
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Ten years ago this week I got married, right here in Utrecht, in the Dom tower. So my wife and I went out for...
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Rude awakening
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This was a week of rude awakening. Literally: I fell asleep on Tuesday confident that Hillary Clinton would be...
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Post-Brexit England
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This week on Thursday I traveled to post-Brexit England for a couple of days. My trip pretty much took place on the...
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Two new ways to play
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. RIVE is a ‘vintage action game’ for which I created the world, story and dialog. It’s out on Steam and PlayStation...
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Speech bubbles and lettering
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive my work. Antegods is the ‘stonepunk arena action’ multiplayer game (and comic book) I’m working on with Codeglue. This week I spent a day drawing...
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Some actual writing
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive my work. Geometry Girl is my upcoming app novel, a literary story taking the shape of an innovative app. It’s also the start of a general iOS reading...
View ArticleUnwelcome passenger
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive my work (and sometimes health). After being diagnosed with diabetes a few years back, I get regular check-ups. Recently, my measured values seemed to...
View ArticleThe passenger announcing itself
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive my work (and life). Two weeks ago, I wrote that I have a 75 mm unwelcome passenger in my left kidney, and here’s a little health update. The doctors...
View ArticleLooking forward to the surgery
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive my work (and life). As you may already know, a growth was recently discovered in my left kidney. It’s likely cancer, and even if it’s not, it has to be...
View ArticleSurgery
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive my work (and life). As mentioned here before, there was a 75 mm growth in my left kidney. Last Wednesday in the early morning I was in surgery for...
View ArticleIt really was cancer
With these weeknotes I track and archive my work in public. Because of my recent kidney removal, I skipped another round of weeknotes. Surgery is terrible like that! I’m doing pretty OK actually. No...
View ArticleRunning at half-speed
With these weeknotes I track and archive my work in public. I’m still recovering from my kidney removal surgery, just over a month ago. It had a 75 mm tumor in it, but the cancer hasn’t spread. I feel...
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I attended a hackathon
With these weeknotes I track and archive my work in public. This edition goes back three weeks, and a lot happened even though I’m still running at half-speed. I really want to return to the weekly...
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