I‘m bored and procrastinating, so I wanted to play a bit and dissect the opening line of The Wolf of Oren-yaro. They called me “bitch”, the she-wolf, because I murdered a man and made my husband leave the night before they crowned me. I don’t like wasting words. The rare exception is in dialogue or introspection, …
So before we talk about how I do epic fantasy characters, just let me put duct tape on my inner critic’s mouth… So, now that that bitch is quiet…I’m starting another novel on Monday, which means a whole new bunch of characters, and I’d like to make them all very well-rounded because like with all my …
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Ichi rok Sagar, Five voices in Fuyyu, An Orenar, An aron dar Bara-Onni, a poet, a scribe, and an accountant. Silence them. Reshiro Ikessar This political drama, and more in The Agartes Epilogues.
I try to stay away from feminist conversations. Not because I don’t have my own set of opinions about the whole situation, but because I’m not educated enough about the various terminologies to accurately portray what I’m trying to say (which more or less comes down to “people can be whoever they want to be”). I know …
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I just finished watching the movie Warcraft for the first time. I’m an avid fan of the series–played the RTS games thoroughly as a young child and teenager, and then later World of Warcraft (as a male hunter orc named Uran, and then later again as a male shaman orc called Icarus. Uhhh, I may have …
