What Four Years in a Children’s Hospice Kitchen Taught Me About Craft
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Brennan Kenneth Brown is a Queer Métis writer and web developer exploring Indigenous identity, digital culture, and creativity. Personal essays on technology, craft, and human experience from Calgary, Alberta (Treaty 7).
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THE BANANA MYSTERY
A Literary Question Across Centuries in the East
Be prolific. Accept every thought. Mythologize yourself. Show up.
How to write like the Mountain Goats to create your own body of work you’ll be proud of.
Want to Decolonize Your Writing?
Note-taking with Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Want to be a good researcher? Go down rabbit holes.
A love letter to Wikipedia.
Yes, You Can Write about ANYTHING.
An Essay on Unlikely Connections
This is how I’m making WRITING* my full-time career.
A Case for Independent Literary Journalism: Why I’m Going All In
The Dying Art of Having Something to Say
Are you a writer? Do you want to be? Read this.
The Architecture of Belonging
A Lyric Essay on Loss in Ten Parts
I Analyzed 14 Years of My Writing with Vibe Coding.
How 1,002,243 words of journal entries revealed the patterns of a writer’s mind.
Walking Softly: Navigating the Transformation of a Writing Life
Practical guidance for emerging writers navigating transformation, offering concrete pathways from self-publishing and workshops to grants and community building, with wisdom on embracing imperfection.
Medium vs. Substack
My experience writing on Medium for the past 10 years
29: Done.
A reflection on completing an English degree at twenty-nine, exploring the anticlimactic nature of graduation, identity as a halfbreed Métis student, and what it means to finish without feeling finished.
Disability in Adventure Time
A critical analysis of how Adventure Time portrayed disability through Finn's amputation, examining the show's groundbreaking yet problematic approach to permanent bodily change in children's animation.
How Do We Fall in Love in the Future?
A personal exploration of love, AI, and human connection through the lens of Spike Jonze's film 'Her,' examining how the movie predicted our current relationship with artificial intelligence.
From Digital to Analog
A Love Letter to the Handwritten Page
What If You Created As Much As You Consume?
A call to reclaim our creative power in an age of endless consumption, exploring how making things—no matter how imperfect—is an act of resistance against the attention economy.
The Great Forgetting
Our Memory is Disappearing Before Our Eyes
OUR HYSTERICAL STRENGTH
What Our Bodies Remember When Systems Fail
The Geometry of Writing
Eight meditations on writing, survival, and the sacred geometry of storytelling
Setting Up Decap CMS with Jekyll: A Real-World Example
A Technical Guide to Leaving a Legacy