The Life of the Traegorn
The Life of the Traegorn
Trae Dorn
The Personal Blog of Writer and Podcaster Trae Dorn
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So I already made a post about this on TikTok/Bluesky/Tumblr/YouTube (because I am, if anything, distributed these days), but I wanted to talk about it here -- as it feels more permanent. This last weekend I was at a convention, and like...
On December 8th 2009 the first strip of UnCONventional went online. UnCONventional wasn't the first webcomic I ever attempted (the first was "Room 825" which ran for a few months back in the year 2000), but it's the first one that stuck...
Well the world is dark and cold, which means it's time to do something fun -- and in this case that something fun is go do a convention. This Saturday, December 6th, I'm going to be at UWEC GEEKcon at the University of Wisconsin-Eau...
Right now I'm sitting in my favorite chair in my living room, safely home after having spent Thanksgiving with most of my family in Milwaukee. Normally I'd still be there, and wouldn't have come home until tomorrow night -- but the...
This has been a strange week for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons is deeply ironic. If you recall I wrote a whole blog entry about how I don't care about having a large audience -- instead preferring a smaller, intentional one....
As a person who makes creative projects and publishes them on the internet, there's a push to find the largest audience possible. Modern social media focuses on follower count and reaching as many folks as possible, but the more I think...
November 17th 1984 is the canonical birthdate of Lynn Guadalupe Baxter, one of the main characters of Full Circle (2006), UnCONventional (2009-2019), and Peregrine Lake (2024-current). That makes today her official 41st birthday. So, uh,...
You need to start writing a blog. Yes, you -- the person who is reading this right now, either on my blog or a syndicated version on one of the websites I distribute this to. You need to go out, find some web space or a blog host, and...
Way back in 2011 I ran probably one of the best known storylines in UnCONventional called "I Hate November." In the comic, Lynn is pretty much just having a shitty time. We find out some of her backstory, but the focus is much more on...
So back in December, you may have noticed that the webcomic I make with Ethan Flanagan, Peregrine Lake, went from color to black and white. The intention, originally, was to have this be a temporary situation. We always meant for Ethan...
One of the most frustrating things over the last few months has been dealing with my website getting constantly hit with requests from malicious bots repeatedly hammering and scraping my website. Back at the beginning of August I...
I talked about this back in May, but I've sometimes go out and play around with different generative AI products just to see what they can do. I never share what I "make," and I never even mention what I'm using because I don't want to...
So if you haven't heard the news yet, No Brand Con is coming back. Not only are we running the convention again, but we're bringing it back to Eau Claire -- something folks have been begging us to do for the last decade. May 1st-3rd 2026...
The last few months have been busy ones for me. Between August and September, I was at four different in person conventions, recorded an entire season of The Meatgrinder in a cabin in the woods, presented at the virtual event...
It's taken longer to get this book out the door than the previous ones, but I'm excited to announce that Buried Memories, the fourth book in the Mia Graves Saga, is coming out December 15th! Like the previous entries in the series, you...