TEOWAD Blog

Day One : Day 2

(The one with the candle)

March 12, 2026 by P.J. Loop

An overview of on one of my favourite videos to come out of my 'Marketing Trials'. I think it will stay with me for a while, precisely because it came about completely by accident, or provenance, or serendipity, or because candle makers these days really know their craft??!

Day One : The Start?

(It's definitely not the end... I think?)

March 10, 2026 by P.J. Loop

This is the video that kicked off my foolhardy venture into making my own marketing videos. True, the hours were long, and the successes was relative, but when you factor in that it's all relative —and that I've learned a lot— perhaps it was worth the damaged books and broken technology?

How do you describe a book?

(without giving the game away...?)

February 12, 2026 by P.J. Loop

When you truly get into the awesome force that is writing, you realise that everything is a game of balance. Go too far one way, and your beta readers hit you over the head with soliloquy and silence. Don't venture enough... and Netflix will have already canceled your series before you've published your paperback. In the end, you find you have to get good at many things, because it isn't a game. The stakes are real, and if you slip, you end up bruised and learning that 40-year olds take weeks to heal.

Which came first? Music licensing...

(Or, the inability to get one?)

January 15, 2026 by P.J. Loop

I would probably skip this one. It's just a guy with no real musical talent complaining that business entities don't want to broadcast their music far and wide. If only we could deal with real people, directly. Then perhaps things would be different. Probably not perfect 'different', but at least musicians might get more money and attention for their efforts. I'm just glad I'm a writer, it's much easier for a writer to, err...

Day One : Learning how to publicise

(my book... or other things, I guess?)

January 8, 2026 by P.J. Loop

This is where I explain how my very-much-like-OCD tendencies wouldn't allow me to put out a video entitled 'Day 7301' in case the previous video the viewer had seen was 'Day 93'. It's really not that interesting.

'Aim at the ground, and miss'

(and other such multilayered monstrosities)

December 9, 2025 by P.J. Loop

Those of you who have been paying attention probably want a refund —at least by now. But just in case you like reading about writers writing about reading other authors... this post might be the one for you.

How do you know you've lost it?

Whatever it was.

December 6, 2025 by P.J. Loop

I have absolutely no memory of writing this one. So, it is either a very clever piece of social engineering that is somehow going to lead to me giving away thousands of pounds to some over-complicated scam. Or, I was so tired after a long day of working, and then an evening of writing, that my mind had started storing things in nearby alternative realities.

Back-to-front development...

(Similarities of coding and writing?!)

October 21, 2025 by P.J. Loop

A descent into how I find there are similarities between coding and writing. Others might completely disagree. To be honest, I find similarity between everything and coding. I think it is just the way my computer is wired.

I often find missing words

(ambiguous, that is)

October 20, 2025 by P.J. Loop

This is a discussion —involving one person— about how I am quite risk averse but find it difficult following encoded rules set by humans. Of course, that doesn't mean rules where actual danger is involved. But more the fact that we're supposed to call the cold, grey part of existence 'January'.

Fractals!!

(And other such borrowed expletives)

October 13, 2025 by P.J. Loop

Some random warblings about how writing 'The End of Worth and Distance' has been a bit surprising. Meaning that I've had to learn how to get certain concepts into the book without turning people away from the story.

How much is enough?

(And how can you be sure?)

October 12, 2025 by P.J. Loop

Don't get me started on this one. I have no idea how much should be enough. I've got into trouble in the past exactly because of that. Which makes me sound like some kind of maniac. But no... put simply, I agonise over the subtlest of things.

M_ltiple w_ys of perc_iving

(Otherwise known as perspective)

October 11, 2025 by P.J. Loop

The day I found out you could remove letters from words and still read them was one of those days that I still remember, like where was I when Elvis did that thing. It went a long way towards explaining why I can write 'that' and mean 'than', or the other way around. ALL THE TIME! The letters thing, not the Elvis thing.

Patterns

(and anti patterns —no, not that kind of anti pattern)

October 9, 2025 by P.J. Loop

There is a reason why I chose my pen name to be Loop. Well, actually, there's a WHOLE LOT of reasons. We'll probably get into it one day, but the first and foremost is because patterns won't leave me a lone. Even if I ask them to, nicely.

What?!

(And other exclamations)

September 21, 2025 by P.J. Loop

This is one that you can just skip. Skip right past. I mean, who wants to read about someone fretting over not being able to open a PDF document?? Perhaps only those tasked with the... task, of making PDFs easier to open?

What constitutes an end?

(does it need an observer?)

September 1, 2025 by P.J. Loop

It's no secret —at least to me— that I love and hate endings. I took my time trying to end each book, I found that difficult. Weirdly enough I didn't find it difficult to end the series. Go figure.

The Art of Character Development

Building believable personalities in fiction

August 31, 2025 by P.J. Loop

This is the area where I believe I have learned the most over the last few years. It took me a long while to settle some of my characters, and then even longer to work how they might interact with each other.

If UX in Web Apps was a story...

(It would be one in major need of serious structural editing)

August 20, 2025 by P.J. Loop

This is just venting about site design, something I've been doing for a long while. I'm afraid I'm going to get more and more grumpy I get about this. Especially with the additional oldness that I'm able to achieve, and the more Vibe Coding that starts to happen.

Patterns and connections

(are we all just side effects?)

August 18, 2025 by P.J. Loop

A post that focuses on my focus for patterns and how I am attempting something that I know is tricky to do in writing the 'The End of Worth and Distance' (#teowad) and 'The Eighth Configuration' series. I will most likely fail, but I have to keep trying. Otherwise, reality will just put me in a box and keep me there.

Arguments from another world

The beginnings of TEOWAD.

August 15, 2025 by P.J. Loop

This post goes into how it all began, way back when. Way before self-checkouts, before the advent and abandonment of MP3 players, even before fruit started being used as branding for technology.

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