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There is a benefit to rereading your novel as you go. For example, late last night I discovered the perfect spot to seed some information. Bits of worldbuilding and so on. But the fun part of writing is discovery. For example, I haven’t yet added this information and I also don’t know what this information
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Something Charles Dickens does extremely well is use stock characters in complex ways. The usefulness of a stock character is that it makes them immediately pop off the page and stick in your eyes and ears. Stock characters get a bad reputation because they lack complexity. Which is all fine and good and true. But
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For those just joining, here are the prompts I’m using: One here and one here. The Faceless Guardian / Concealed Deep beneath the LukiyamiHides the beautiful botruchyWith hide like iron and claws glassyShe prowls the tomb of Horumi Queen of night with treasures brightHorumi’s corpse yet shines so whiteThere beneath Lukiyami’s siteWhere adventurer’s test their might. In the
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For those just joining, here are the prompts I’m using: One here and one here. And on we go writing poems by the handful. I’d like to say it gets easier, and a bit it does. I’m working on not working so hard on this. And so if you’re reading these and thinking that they sure do suck
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It’s been over a month since I looked at my novel. I stepped away to write some short stories–one of which has already been accepted and will be published soon–and then a whole lot of other things happened in my September. But I’m back at it and I’m hoping to be finished with this first
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For those just joining, here are the prompts I’m using: One here and one here. The Fallen Star Wishing doesn’t make it true,But every word I said to youWas born of love yet light as dewBut strong and supple as the yewThat grew so high between us twoAnd bound me ever to only you. Clock Time keeps leapingTime
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For those just joining, here are the prompts I’m using: One here and one here. Well, this month has really gotten away from me! If it’s not obvious, I’m currently making the fifth daily post of the month on the 23rd day of the month, and my goal to write a poem per day has utterly collapsed in
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For those just joining, here are the prompts I’m using: One here and one here. Devoured by the Mountain / Scale Long we lived in Mount Mercy’s shadeAmong the glens and moors she madeThere dwells the fiery DrakeNamed Scale whose steps make the earth quake A voice like thunderHe rips skies asunderSo fearsome, this wonder His mighty scales
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For those just joining, here are the prompts I’m using: One here and one here. The Rusted Tower / Automaton Lost deep in the rusted towerLives the rusted automatonLet us walk these halls an hourLast lord of this pantheon Laced in his rust blooms glowing greenLook upon his flowering eyesLong lost that world that dreamt him seenLimping along
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For those just joining, here are the prompts I’m using: One here and one here. Today, I’m combining both prompts, which are Shadows Beneath Roots and Moss. It’s also going directly into a story I’m writing which I’ll discuss in a post when I have time. You may be asking: What about Twilight of the Wolves? Well, more
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