https://coastvex.icu/ Essays and short fiction by V. Harlow en-us Wed, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://coastvex.icu/assets/og-preview.png https://coastvex.icu/ https://coastvex.icu/blog/on-revision.html https://coastvex.icu/blog/on-revision.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A working writer's notes on revision as discovery, not correction. The first draft is the instrument. You use it to find the story, and then you put it away and write the story. https://coastvex.icu/writing/the-tide-table.html https://coastvex.icu/writing/the-tide-table.html Sat, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Short fiction. A retired hydrographer receives a letter from someone who shouldn't be alive. ~2,400 words. https://coastvex.icu/blog/tools-2025.html https://coastvex.icu/blog/tools-2025.html Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 A practical account of the software, hardware, and habits that made up my writing setup in 2025. https://coastvex.icu/blog/reading-2025.html https://coastvex.icu/blog/reading-2025.html Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Books finished in 2025, annotated. The ones that actually mattered. https://coastvex.icu/blog/morning-pages.html https://coastvex.icu/blog/morning-pages.html Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 An honest account of keeping a daily freewriting practice for three years. Fourteen notebooks, and what they taught me — and didn't. https://coastvex.icu/writing/negative-space.html https://coastvex.icu/writing/negative-space.html Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 On what gets left out of a story — and why that omission does most of the work. A reading of Chekhov's "The Student."