The complexities of life never stop and I think they call it adulting.

This is my part of my list - a blog for a movie review and a university assignment, a full read-through of a novel, an email I owe an artist for our book cover, a trilogy that refuses to start at the beginning, a small person learning what feelings are, and a day job. This post is me walking the length of that list, mostly so I can see it all in one place

Some films misread the assignment. Some ignore it entirely. Wing Commander had the assignment written on the box — beloved franchise, built-in audience, a universe already mapped across a decade of games and books — and it still turned in someone else's homework.

The result is a film that has humanity on the brink, a war-winning MacGuffin in enemy hands, a half-breed outsider nobody trusts, and a ticking clock counting down to Earth's destruction. It sounds like everything you'd want.

It plays like someone describing a great film rather than making one.

Week four behind a coffee machine, and somewhere between the noise of a toddler disco and the quiet of midnight, a sci-fi trilogy is being written. New job, same midnight sessions — exhausting days don't stop the writing, they just change its shape.

Burn the Sky: Book 2 Redemption is have its final chapters edited, the next trilogy is taking shape, and the writing desk is seeing more late nights than it probably should. This one is about editing the past while building the future, the trap of chasing perfection, and why the version you almost published is the one nobody reads.