Who Is Maximum Beans?

Maximum Beans is a writer of speculative fiction and a technology enthusiast, living in the North-West of England. His main hobby (writing aside) is reading over one hundred books a year whilst drinking enough coffee to make this possible. His coffee machine is the second greatest love of his life and has a strength dial that goes up to eleven. Author. Pun machine. Chewer of coffee beans. Dragon fanatic. Capable of giving someone a look so flat that it can be slid under a door.

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Current Writing Projects

Away With Your Fairies

Active

First Draft

31.8% 25,472 / 80,000 words

My current project

Shattered Angel

Active

First Draft

33.3% 16,637 / 50,000 words

My 2026 November Writing Challenge

2026 November Writing Challenge 16,637 / 50,000 words

Riding The Light

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Second Draft

I really like this one and will hopefully be returning to finish it soon.

Status Updates

13 November 2026 · 7:52 AM

Here are my reward boxes for the November Writing Challenge! I think they turned out beautifully this year and I'm excited to find out what is in that first 10K words box! I've had a slow start this month, mainly due to all my tech failing at once (again! The November curse is strong and…

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12 November 2026 · 11:06 PM

📚 Shattered Angel | November Writing Challenge 1,176 / 50,000 words (2.35%) +4 net words on 10 Nov 2026. https://infernalcitadel.com/projects/shattered-angel/ #WritingCommunity #WritingProgress

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12 November 2026 · 9:22 AM

It wasn't easy, but I managed to get all 18 bags of coffee beans onto the shelf! That should last me a solid week of writing I'd say!

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1 November 2026 · 7:59 PM

AND SO IT BEGINS! 30 days. 50K words. No sleep.

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14 October 2026 · 4:18 PM

Ok, so that's one 8TB drive installed (replacing a mysteriously missing drive) and the resilvering process has gathered it into the pool's fold. That just leaves: - A DEGRADED 8TB drive - A FAULTED 3TB drive - A DEGRADED 3TB drive But first I need to tune the system fans based on live drive temperature…

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13 October 2026 · 8:14 PM

I'm most of the way through stage one of attempting to rebuild my NAS's broken data pool before I lose every scrap of my digital life. I've set the system fans to VTOL-mode and the office is just starting to hover.

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