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This week has been pretty bad. I ate something that I was allergic to on Monday, leaving me feeling like crap for a few days, then I got a polio vaccine on Friday. (Side note, there is some preliminary research that t...
2023-01-16 04:46:07 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Work is blarg. That is all.
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I decided to create the first new layer to my Core a few hours after recovering from the Harpy attack. I placed two level five Beast Cores, one from the ...
2023-01-09 05:33:43 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
First couple days bac at work are always stressful after a long break. Gotta get back into my routine. Less sleep definiately doesn’t help. Oh well, gotta pay the bills. Health insurance ain’t cheap!
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2023-01-05 04:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s a picture Joy I made using deepAI.org that is very close to how I see Princess Aleksandra. I posted it to Facebook too, but just in case you didn’t see it there, I wanted to share it with y’all.
2023-01-02 05:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
I got a ton of writing done this week! It was kind of a preview of what I could do if I was full time, as I got 12.5k words written since Christmas. At that rate, I could get the first draft of a story out in 8-10 wee...
2023-01-02 05:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Happy New Year’s Eve! I’ll talk to you all next year :-p
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Three hours later, I staggered into the Portable Home. Jon, Lilianna, Xiao, and Lea were all collapsed on the...
2023-01-01 02:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Sorry, meant to post this yesterday, but we were getting ready for my oldest’s 10th birthday. Enjoy!
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Two hours of puzzles and headaches had me sitting on a lounge cushion with my ...
2022-12-30 04:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
I hope everyone had a great holiday, and a merry Christmas if you celebrate it! Ours was pretty good, with a high in the upper forties after our ridiculous cold snap. Here is the next chapter! As a Christmas gift, I...
2022-12-27 04:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR'S NOTE ***
Woo, it got cold! Temperatures in the negative teens with negative thirty+ wind chill. Thankfully, we brought in enough wood and had our wood stove burning like crazy for the last two days. This one's a bit shorter, nee...
2022-12-23 22:03:22 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Sorry this is late! Enjoy
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“Hey Sia, we’re ready to leave whenever you all get back,” I told Sia mentally, “unless you need to run some errands first? We’ve packed a signif...
2022-12-20 05:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Busy, busy week. My boss’s boss’s boss’s boss was in town to talk to my team and examine a new site we’re building up, and my boss’s boss and boss’s boss’s boss stayed an extra day to talk about strategi...
2022-12-16 04:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Pretty good week, just broke 50k total words in the story. Definitely going to be changing up what happens in the ruins, and make it so the staff gets used by the Naga to open a portal, where the team has to go throug...
2022-12-12 04:49:40 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR'S NOTE ***
Sorry about that! My page didn't refresh itself, so I accidentally posted chapter 8 twice. Here's chapter 9!
Happy Friday!
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Almost everyone bowed out of furniture shopping, l...
2022-12-09 18:57:02 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Well, I was hoping to have two posts last week, but I’ve not been in a great headspace. I’ll be putting two posts up this week, though. Looking like I’m definitely not getting through the entirety of the outline...
2022-12-05 05:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Sorry this is late. Bad migraines multiple days in a row. I’ve gotten exactly zero words written in the last three days, so blergh. Anyway, enjoy this chapter!
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The fourth level wa...
2022-11-29 04:42:52 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Sorry this is late, y’all, but I’ve had a terrible migraine for the last 24 hrs. Still got a bit of writing done, but not enough to get caught up. Probably not gonna make 50k, but should definitely make 40k, which...
2022-11-25 04:22:30 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR'S NOTE ***
And I'm back from Vegas! Lots of things learned, hopefully a bit better stories afterwards. I'm a bit behind now in words, supposed to be at 33.3k, but I'm only at 30.5k, so I've got a bit of effort ahead of me to catch...
2022-11-21 04:32:16 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
So, Vegas is a blast, and I’m having a ton of fun and learning a bunch. I haven’t written as many words as I wanted to this week, and am gonna have to hustle to get back on track, but I’m sure that what I learn ...
2022-11-17 05:51:30 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Thanks for the thoughts! I’m running pretty ragged keeping up with writing and getting ready for the 20BooksTo50k conference, along with my day job being busy, so I haven’t had time to respond to them, but I’m l...
2022-11-14 01:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Progress goes pretty good! Still just barely ahead of my goal, so here’s another chapter.
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After an hour nap, I was still alone, and it was still dark outside. A quick glance out o...
2022-11-10 05:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Here we go! I’ve gotten 11.6k words written so far, 10.9 of which were in November. So far, rocking NaNoWriMo, though I didn’t write anything on the second (Yay migraines!) Got over 3k written yesterday to make up...
2022-11-07 05:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR'S NOTE ***
Well, I took y'all's feedback and redid the outline. Let me know what y'all think!
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Elemental Gatherers Book 7 Outline Draft 2
Chapter 1 - Night after big party. Still going on. He...
2022-10-28 21:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1 - Night after big party. Still going on. He’s alone in room. Decides to investigate Legacy. Looks into cultivation techniques, find them to be a mix of gathering and tempering techniques. Finds a listing of Core runes, whic...
2022-10-25 01:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Sorry this is late. I got a COVID shot on Thursday, and Joy one on Saturday, which made everything late. The first post is the raw notes I wrote over 2 weeks. In a bit, I’ll post the more final outline pulled from ...
2022-10-25 01:14:37 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR'S NOTE ***
Patreon Exclusive post! A quick primer on gathering.
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Aether Gathering is the simplest of the levels to advance through, though it also forms the basis of how far you’ll be able ...
2022-10-16 21:14:41 +0000 UTC View Post*** Author's Note ***
Legacy of the M'Zee is done! Attached to this post is the pdf and epub final version of Legacy of the M'Zee! It is out on Amazon for pre-order now, located at 2022-10-10 04:30:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've received Legacy back from my editor, so my break is over! Hopefully will have the first round of edits on it done by this weekend! I've also clicked the pre-order button for Amazon to publish it! Legacy will be pur...
2022-10-04 03:02:50 +0000 UTC View Post*** AUTHOR’S NOTE ***
Out camping with the family, really bad signal last night. Enjoy!
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“What are you going to do now?” Nuan asked me.
“Go to the Administration building...
2022-09-26 17:52:14 +0000 UTC View PostWell, Legacy of the M'Zee, draft 4, is headed to my editor, Lector's Books, to get the final round of edits done. It'll be back in 2 weeks, I'll go through the changes and thoughts from her in a week, then post it here! I'll try to adjudicate any ...
2022-09-19 03:21:39 +0000 UTC View Post