Originally posted on my tumblr on Sept. 8th 2021 Back in High School, I was a bit of an edgy kid. If I was told not to do something it was immediately what I wanted to do. Mostly pertaining to any time my English teachers gossiped about books, and certainly during the week we covered …
Continue reading I Watched Lolita (1962) and Lolita (1997) For Science
So…I read Death of A Prince and I was expecting to make comparisons between that and Of Rust and Gold and it was surprisingly worse than I was expecting. There were very clear similarities between Argus and Alexen (the mc of Death of A Prince) beyond their name but Alexen is undeniably worse and I’m not even …
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Graza City started her journey as a collection of fishing villages on the coast of a divided Escan until it was officially settled and united by King Didacus I of House Espinar. In her time since, it has become home to a unique dialect, the birth place of many different times of music and dances, …
I kind of touched on these subjects before but as I’ve been doing lately I’ve had more thoughts and I want to do a deeper dive. Honestly while I’ve been thinking about this for a while and briefly mentioned it in a previous post, it really hit me when I was playing Crusader King’s 3 …
I don't like that I always feel a little lackluster when I finally finish a draft. I really overplay my endings. I talk a lot about how hard I find them to write and I get pretty stressed whenever I'm close to one but once it's done it's like none of the pressure ever existed. …
I need a break down of everything I'm working on or plan to work on over on my tumblr (that I will again copy below just so I can keep a backup of it) but since I've made that post I have also made some pretty vital progress. As of this moment I am one …
A trend here. I keep talking about my tumblr. But, for the last few years I've been steadily making world building posts. Not just advice or ramblings about how I built my own world but pieces written "in character" about the history of the world first introduced in Of Rust and Gold. There's stuff about …
*so far A while back I started making world building "advice" posts on my tumblr because some of my followers suggested that it might be helpful but mostly because I think I'm good at world building and I very much wanted to share some of the things I think about that help me flesh out …
This is actually really exciting for me. I've been on Wattpad for 8 years and never once thought of my stuff being advertised on the homepage. I'm a big fan of my small celebrations. I'll have a nice little cup of hot chocolate while I write today.
Long time no time. I finished Of Rust and Gold, it joined Wattpad's Paid Story Program, I started a new book, and I begin my rewrite of Of Vipers and Saints. A lot happened. I'm excited for my rewrite because I think it eliminates one of the main things some people had a problem with …
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