My Writing Themes: One Deep Root
Drafting, editing, and world building are the sapling in the sunlight, but the seed and roots that come first are the writer’s true creation story. As a child I often Continue Reading →
The Ice Between
A rose. It was what she needed to thaw her heart, but it was frozen too, discarded, tossed away by someone else. Bending, she removed her glove, and set her Continue Reading →
Each Novel is a Different Experience
What I’ve learned over the years is that all that’s the same about the creation of each novel is that no matter what I do and how I begin they Continue Reading →
Vistanna Martavien
Illumination, or a raven’s stare, it was all interchangeable once her shadows were bare. No reaching for the stars, but instead stealing their brightness, it was as easy as writing Continue Reading →
Airships! Applying Magic to Technology
Way back when, the original idea for Ontyre was that it would be medieval world with axes and swords. Visualize, to a degree, Tolkien, but with female characters. I spent Continue Reading →
Second Glances
Desperate for love, second glances became second chances, but in the reality that was her life, second glances were all they were. Hope was imagination, hanging on glances not meant Continue Reading →
The New Pannulus Map Revealed
I’m going to jump right in this week because I can be long-winded when I start talking about maps. The Pannulus map project I vowed to finish before January was Continue Reading →
Breathing Life
Branded with shame for living her truth, scorned, threatened, driven to bleeding life so as to remember she was alive. Was living breathing, or was living having a life worth Continue Reading →
Last Look at 2019 Plans
Here’s the last look at my plans for 2019 and I left this topic for last because it’s the one that’s haunted me for years and while I’ve made small Continue Reading →
The Dying Heart
She touched her skin, a place where once a heart did beat. Silence, a chilling breeze moving through the cemetery within. Heartbreak, it was real… she’d always wondered. Love came Continue Reading →