Tag: updates

Song of the Week

Laura Marling, “Night Terror”

It’s Monday again. It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, also. The wheels of history turn toward justice, but slowly, and not without great effort.

Here’s what’s happening in my world this week:

I’ll be on Twitch tonight from 6pm until 8 Central time, if you’d like to stop by and chat. [ETA: no stream Thursday. See you next week!]

On Wednesday, I’ll have the latest chapter of Journey to the Water up! If you need to catch up, all available chapters are under the Stories tab above.

I’m finishing up the final formatting of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea. I should have an update later this week, which will hopefully include information on paperback preorders.

I think that’s it! Have an excellent week.

NaNo Update: First Goal Achieved!

A screenshot of the NaNoWriMo winner's certificate

I’ve finished the 50,000 words required for National Novel Writing Month. Now it’s time to get to the end of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea. I’ve got 11 days and about 30,000 words left.

NaNo Update: Moving Right Along

A screenshot from my laptop

Traditionally, the goal for National Novel Writing Month is 50,000 words in 30 days, usually of a brand-new project. I am trying to completely rewrite Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea for self-publishing. The version that lives here on the blog is just under 80,000 words, so I’m shooting for that higher goal by the end of the month. Hopefully I can get it published before Christmas!

I think I’m well on my way to finishing NaNo, and I’m staying on track for finishing this draft so far. If you’re writing, whether you’re doing NaNo or not, I wish you speedy writing and quiet time free of distractions!

Announcing the Tea and Sidequests channel!

A sword, a teapot, several cups of tea, a couple of bound books, a handful of polyhedral dice, some small shells, and an antique key lie scattered over a map of Skyrim.

My husband and I have created a joint Twitch channel! You can find it here!

We’re going to be streaming Monday and Saturday evenings, starting next week, from 6 to 8 in the evening (US Central time).

I’m very excited to start sharing some of our favorite games with you. In this time of isolation, I’m also looking forward to chatting with old and new friends. I hope you can stop by sometime!

If you miss a stream, we’re going to be uploading them to YouTube here. I’ve also updated the social icons at the bottom of the blog to these new sites.

Happy New Year!

There will be a new chapter this week

…but it might not be until Friday. Or possibly the weekend. Yesterday was a long day, and it looks like it’s going to be a long week.

Hang in there, take care of yourself, and I will be back with more things to read soon!

Minor Delay

Chapter Two of The Book of the New Moon Door will be posted tomorrow, due to my poor time management. See you then!

New project!

Next week, I’ll be starting a new multi-chapter story, The Book of the New Moon Door. As always, it’ll be completely free to read, and released one chapter a week on Wednesdays until further notice.

The world is changing.

The old orders of the world fade away. The church’s power wanes, replaced by secular states. Magic gives way to science.

Berend was once a member of the Sons of Galaser, the most prestigious mercenary company on the continent. Now, the Sons are no more, and only a handful of his former companions remain, one of whom was dismembered last night in what appears to be a demon-summoning ritual out of an old legend.

Isabel is a Sentinel of Ondir, the god of death. Armed with bell, book, and candle, her job is to send restless spirits to the afterlife–and there has been much need of that, of late. Asking the ghost of a murdered ex-mercenary if he saw his killer before he died is a simple task, but she soon finds that things will not be so easy: though everything Isabel knows tells her it’s impossible, it appears his soul has been damaged.

As Berend and Isabel search for a murderer who can dismember a soul, and navigate their places in the changing world, they discover the terrible secrets hidden behind the veil of progress.

Construction complete!

You may notice a change of decoration! Also, all my writing has been updated with new tags. You can find the tag cloud at the bottom of the page.

Construction update

You may notice that there is now a “Stories” and a “Modules” tab above! You will find Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea and Love Song in Six Verses under “Stories,” and The Well Below the Valley under “Modules.” Each chapter’s Table of Contents link will now go to the proper new spot.

All the images on the blog should now have descriptions in the alt-text, and there is an extra picture of my cats on the About Me page.

I’ll be working on tags and the color scheme next!

Impending blog construction

I started this blog a little less than a year ago with two large projects in the works: The Well Below the Valley and Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea. Now that both of them are finished, it’s time to revisit the blog’s structure and make some improvements.

  • Most importantly, the “Read my writing” tab will be divided into two tabs, one for stories and one for tabletop modules. As I write more projects and make them available, this will make navigation easier for readers.
  • Tables of Contents will migrate to their new tabs, and the links at the top of individual chapters will be rerouted to the new pages.
  • I will be adding image descriptions to all the pictures on the blog to make them more accessible.
  • I will revisit my post tags and try to add more, to make individual posts easier to find.
  • The “About me” page will be updated. Possibly with additional cat photos.
  • I’ll try out some new color schemes and see if a new one would help with readability and general aesthetics.

New things that will be coming in the next month or so:

  • Singer Lake, a one-shot campaign module for the Chronicles of Darkness/New World of Darkness system.
  • Something video game related? Possibly videos? I keep saying that I’m going try to start streaming again.
  • A new long-form story! It’ll be a surprise! (There will eventually be a sequel to Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea. I don’t know if you’ll read this statement as a reassurance or a threat, but there it is.)

If you’ve been reading the blog (or are here for the first time), and you have thoughts about how it can be more readable and easier to navigate, feel free to let me know!