My planned format for this story is going to be an alternating switch between third person limited, past tense (from the perspective of Sparhawk) and first person, present progressive (the isekai c...
2024-09-02 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt was well after midnight, and a dense gray fog had crept in off the Cimmura river to mingle with the pervading woodsmoke from a thousand chimneys to blur the nearly deserted streets of the city. ...
2024-08-30 01:51:31 +0000 UTC View PostSo, as you all will know, I've had some difficulties writing of late. I'd chalked it up to my significant health issues this year, which haven't really abated, just become moderately more manageabl...
2024-08-29 21:56:42 +0000 UTC View PostNot much to elaborate on. Due to my extended illness and difficulties writing, I'm skipping the September billing cycle. I'll still be trying to write but this is my apology for the extended inabil...
2024-08-03 12:02:26 +0000 UTC View PostSo I've been working on this one for a little while, and I have several snippets and about thirty pages of background in my current working notebook. Here's a snippet of the introductory chapter th...
2024-07-29 02:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostSo my health has had some issues over the last couple months. It's impacted my pace of writing and my ability to stay in a story. I've wandered between stories I haven't finished, attempting to mak...
2024-07-08 14:06:50 +0000 UTC View PostSo, output has been light for the last month. In addition to needing to help my wife with two separate camping trips with her guild ren Faire guild, there's been a couple side projects I've been wo...
2024-04-07 03:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostI've needed to take a small break from Marked. It's been preying on me, a bit, the writing, the editing, the research of both source material and what I've already written, because my notes are hap...
2024-01-25 10:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostI'd had many reasons for wanting to come back. Not to this particular 'now', of course. And yet... where DID the extra energy come from? I had meticulously plotted the path of my reversion, I shoul...
2023-03-12 10:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostA one shot story I've been doodling with as a mood exercise.
Duality
As I sit at my desk and discuss possible tactics for getting the mayor on side in rebooting the ferry, I'm also i...
So I haven't put out a new chapter anywhere since early December. This isn't to say I haven't been writing or studying; I've been working on a noir piece that I hope to have the first chapter ready...
2023-01-17 08:52:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Six
Dinner was an unusually quiet affair; much of the banter and noise of the event was suppressed by the presence of not merely a male, but an auspicious one. Rincheg in particular ...
I apologize to you all.
I write from a place of hope; one factor common to most of my stories is that they start out from trouble, tragedy, and strife. Trials assail my characters but slowl...
It's been a rough month and a half. My mind has been scattered, my concentration poor, my inspiration cold and even my ability to reach for language and set it on a page felt hollow and empty. Bare...
2022-03-03 09:55:02 +0000 UTC View PostForty Eight Hours: a Worm Shortfic
There's no feeling in the world quite like when you look at your high-school yearbook and realize that a third of your graduating class is already dead.
The last month has been less than optimal for me. My writing has stalled pretty hard due to some health concerns and a significant loss of coordination on my right side. Like an idiot I've been put...
2022-01-11 15:54:59 +0000 UTC View PostAt long last, it continues! I've had this bubbling on the back burner for... entirely too long. But I finally have a new chapter available for my patreon people!
Chapter Five
The rest...
"Try it now."
Axel hesitated. "You close everything up in there?"
"Yeah!" Gilbert called back. "Everything's clean. Hit the juice."
There was only a moment's pause, and then ...
As we get closer to Greenheart, we start to see people camping out, around small campfires and tents. Ahead, I notice a weird looking, mottled green bubble about twenty feet across, the left third ...
2021-01-19 15:43:15 +0000 UTC View PostStepping out of the portal from the Mansion is perhaps the scariest thing I've ever done. Nax is tightlipped with both Chalmer and I about the nature of the threat she suspects, only sta...
2021-01-15 09:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostI make use of the customer bathroom for its stated purpose, washing my hands thoroughly. The bathroom is relatively clean but I still refuse to touch the water knobs or the door handle with bare ha...
2021-01-13 07:17:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs I look at the devastated interior of my Hidden Lodge, I can see that Nax was rather understating the damage. Whatever came through that wall didn't just break in, it tore most of the ...
2021-01-13 07:15:29 +0000 UTC View PostI'm lying on my back under open sky. Above me, stars shine in a darker night than any that has graced the Eastern seaboard in the United States in the last hundred years. Wispy clouds mask patches ...
2020-12-10 15:11:42 +0000 UTC View PostI feel drained. It feels like it's been the longest day of my life, and it's just barely past noon. Despite the mid day, the angle of the sunlight streaming through the southern windows of the libr...
2020-11-27 00:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostClink. Clink, clink. 'Hear the glass slosh and tink, tilt it back and have a drink. Count to ten and start again, clink so you don't have to think.'
Danny couldn't re...
2020-11-18 09:42:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Eight
I'm not prepared for the sudden emotion and memory that hits me upon entering the hospital room. It's been a week since I was in one myself. Somehow, despite everything ...
It doesn't happen. Whatever I thought I would be able to do here, I'm stopped at the desk. "I'm here with Father Salvador DiMaggio and Bishop Wellhausen," I repeat. "They're here to-"
I slip out the library door, walking past the rows of shelves, to see Nax seated at the table, but Chalmer nowhere to be found. I walk up to her, taking a seat next to her, and pick up one of the b...
2020-08-06 16:09:27 +0000 UTC View PostIntellectually, Colin knew that he'd been lucky to get off with a warning. Bugging the chapel in advance of getting a warrant had been questionable at best, but the clincher in Director Piggot's ti...
2020-07-25 20:48:34 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the last couple days in Eberron, riding in a car feels a little weird, anticlimactic, after two dragon flights. Three, counting this morning. The street passes us by as we drive, Bishop Wellh...
2020-07-17 12:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post