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Intro I love fantasy of all sorts but, in my opinion, there’s nothing better than high fantasy. The quests and dragons and elves and sword fights type of high fantasy, to be exact. And, weirdly enough, I haven’t had much luck finding YA fantasy that includes those classic tropes. Maybe it’s widely considered to be…
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Intro Characters are the reason why I write. I come up with an awesome character and want to tell their story, and then the rest of the process starts from there. It always starts with the characters. Obviously, not every fiction writer starts their process like this, but that’s how it’s always been for me,…
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If you’re a regular reader of book blogs or viewer of bookstagram or booktok posts, this probably isn’t the first time you’ve heard of an Ember in the Ashes. It’s easily one of the most popular YA fantasy series of the 2010s. Despite this, I actually only started to read it a couple of years…
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Intro Happy March, and welcome to this month’s writing post! This time, I’m going to be talking about my personal writing process. And I’ll emphasize the my personal part, too; everyone works differently, and this is one of those things where there really is no one-size-fits-all method. So, if you’re here hoping to get ideas…
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I’m going to go right out and say it: The Lunar Chronicles is probably one of my favorite series of all time, even years after reading it for the first time. It’s packed with action, humor, drama, and romance, and the whole cast of characters—and it gets to be a pretty big cast, after a…
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Hello, and welcome to our first ever book recommendations article! From here on out, one of these will be posted on the blog every month, each featuring a book chosen by yours truly. Some of these titles will be very well-known current bestsellers, while others might be a bit more obscure or a little less…
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I’ve been writing stories for as long as I can remember, from short picture books about the family pets, to comics featuring my own original superhero team, to full-length novels about various sorts of fantasy elves. (I’ve still got a weird thing with elves, as those of you who have read my web fiction probably…
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Happy November everyone! New on my Patreon today is a special behind-the-scenes post featuring the prologue of an old (and currently abandoned) side project of mine. While the whole project may never be finished, I’m proud of what I had written, and I’m excited to share it with you! Check it out now or subscribe…
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Continuing my project of making artwork for the older flashfics that I posted, today I finished the one for Night Hunter, a fantasy/action fic about Vesper, a vengeful hunter stalking the monster that slaughtered everyone in his home village. If you haven’t read it yet, you can check it out now through the link above!…
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New today on my Patreon is a special post containing a deleted scene from the very first draft of Shadow Spawn, the story that I posted as a serial on my other website, theshadowspawn.com. The scene is available to read for everyone in my Official Patron tier, so be sure to check it out if…
