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Intro Setting concrete writing goals, I’ve found, is one of the best ways to keep my writing on track. If you have a clearly defined goal for the day, week, or month, you can easily break the bigger problem of finishing a whole project down into more digestible chunks. This is good for a variety…
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Intro Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy—which Assassin’s Apprentice is the first book of—has been one of my favorite fantasy series for a long time. It has everything that I look for in a fantasy series: complex characters, a fleshed out world, and a plot that keeps you at the edge of your seat. It’s also loaded…
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Intro With the new year upon us, I thought it would be a good time to reintroduce myself. Quite a bit has changed since I did my first introduction post back in 2024—namely the fact that I’m a published author now—so I wanted to do another post that would take that into account. That, and…
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Happy holidays everyone! Enjoy this seasonal Xier and Ruthana art! (This drawing has also been added to the Rise of the Oathsworn Gallery, so you can see it there too, along with all the other RotO artwork I’ve posted.)
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Intro For me, the holiday season is the perfect time for fun fantasy adventure books. Books that are dramatic, yes, but not in an “Oh no, these characters are all totally going to die!” type of way. More in a “Yikes, this looks bad! I wonder how they’re going to get out of this one,”…
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Intro There are lots of different brainstorming methods out there, and different ones work better for different people. Like all parts of the writing process, there is no right or wrong way to do it—that’s especially true with something that’s as behind-the-scenes as brainstorming. The way I do it is pretty simple: I dump all…
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Intro If you’re into fantasy novels, you’ve almost certainly heard of The Sword of Shannara. It’s one of the most famous fantasy books ever—and also happens to be one of my personal favorite reads, particularly around the holidays. (Yes, it’s another book—and series as a whole—that feels seasonal to me for some reason.) If you…
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The Restless Spirit, the ninth book of the Rise of the Oathsworn series, is now available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited! In this 20,000 word fantasy story, Xier and Ruthana venture into a haunted manor in search of a group of missing travelers. But they soon discover that the travelers are not all that they…
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Intro I talked last month about how I use inspiration from other creatives’ work, but inspiration isn’t the only way that other people’s stories have helped me as a writer. Reading—and experiencing stories through any other sort of media, for that matter—is also possibly the best way to learn how stories work. From basic plot…
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Wishing a safe and happy Halloween to those who celebrate! And, of course, enjoy this seasonal artwork of Xier and Ruthana all dressed up for the holiday. Or, well, of Ruthana all dressed up for the holiday, I guess. Though it looks like Xier’s being a pumpkin whether he wants to or not. (This drawing…
