The Agartes Epilogues in Two Lines

These 4k a day marathons is making the procrastinator in me come out with these random blog posts. My brain reasons as long as I’m doing some form of work, it’s all right. Of course, the usefulness of this is all debatable, but whatever keeps me from actually writing, right? I’m doing two lines this time because The Agartes …

The Story of The Wolf of Oren-yaro In One Line

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, …

Worldbuilding in Epic Fantasy–The Difficulty in Portraying a Well-Rounded World Using Only Words

When people complain about the writing in fantasy–even if it’s a legitimate complaint–but they seem to be relatively clueless at the hellfire-and-lightning storm-plagued mountain ridge the fantasy writer had to go through to even finish their book–I feel like throwing things. It’s not that readers aren’t allowed to complain about things. They’re allowed to–it’s your …

Writing Updates — Sapphire’s Flight On Its Last Legs…

I‘m going to have to push out some of my ridiculously fun-to-make Omakebites for a bit of an announcement. Just today, Sapphire’s Flight,  Book 3 of The Agartes Epilogues, hit 180,000 words. I’ve projected it to finish at around 190,000 words and it looks like it’s going to come to that. In any case, the plan …

The World of The Agartes Epilogues: Found in a Chest in a Seamstress’ Shop in Fuyyu

To My Lovely Sister, Sume, How have you been? Did Father start taking the dried snake bile I sent him? The healer in Cairntown insists he drink it in the morning after breakfast, and some of the men swear by it. Kefier wants you to know that I’ve decided to grow my hair and begs …