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Keith Hayden | Digital Novelist
I tell stories across mediums: novels, animated shorts, music, and experimental digital narratives.
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You Never Know What Season You’re In
When the weather wills change
Japanese Sentence Trainer
Write your way to Japanese literacy.
The Giver (1993)
Reading The Giver is cold heat, a really good use of mental bandwidth that forces you to come to terms with the contradictions of life. Lois Lowry's most acclaimed book deserves all the accolades. The writing has simplistic depth that will challenge anyone under the age of ten,
A History of the World in 12 Maps (2012)
Maps made history
Young Washington (2026) Thoughts
Not your average history film
Angel's Devil (2015) Thoughts
Overall, I found Angel’s Devil entertaining. It is very much genre fiction, and I think it fits its niche pretty well. If you like crime stories, relationship drama, damaged protagonists, and that older-school version of masculinity where a competent man has lost his footing and needs to
Brave New World (1932) - Post Reread Thoughts
How does the classic dystopian novel hold up in 2026?
The End of Make-Believe: Giving the Toy Story franchise the dignified death it deserves
A Toy Story 6 pseudo-treatment on adulthood, obsolescence, and letting go
Outcast Toys - Prologue
Commander Leo and Teri Watts face the villainous Bonegrin
Overseer in the code: is software the new slavery?
What the ancient world's "domestic technology" tells us about the gig economy and the future of AI.
A new feature for you | Cereus & Limnic: Escape From Okinawa - 30K Update
This report hides a secret
Chinese (Simplified) Idiom - 戴罪立功 - for redemption
Pro writing with AI
Isaac and Trashard invite Digital Novelist Keith Hayden to discuss how he works with AI in his writing process.
The Soft Horror of Enhanced Historical Archive Footage
When does enhancement make a new medium?