Months ago I was locked in world building purgatory when it came to fleshing out the marriage and funeral rites of the Escana Empire. I think there's a lot of detail I can add to their funeral traditions because I sort of lost steam, but I did come up with good things for their wedding …
Obligatory Pre-Valentine’s Musing
I think out of all the bonus holiday shorts I've written over the years, anything relating to Valentine's Day has been fleeting. I did one last year, and another two years prior, but it's not something that comes to mind for me often. Strange, probably, considering romance is definitely high on the list of genres/subplots …
First Month of the Year Check-In
I wanted to write a post on January First doing the usual. Y'know. Talk about how I wanted to use this more, outline ideas and goals I had, prepare myself for the upcoming year. That did not happen. I spent my first day of 2022 very busy getting thrown off my wagon so instead, I …
I Watched Lolita (1962) and Lolita (1997) For Science
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 …
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Reading An Old Draft A Decade Later: Argus vs Proto-Argus
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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A Tourist’s Guide to Graza City
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, …
Another World Building Post
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 …
The Night Court: The Next Step
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. …
Rewriting Plans
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 …
The World of The Saints Song
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 …
Aliston. J Drake 