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  1. #WorldOfOntyre 08

    Come on, let’s ride the rails!

    Actually, this is me seeking a location for a story. Thing is, it’s Pannulus so I can’t physically go there.

    So, I travel via airship, boat, vehicle, or train in my mind while staring at the map blown-up on my desktop monitor. I “see” the places I’m considering.

    In this case, there’s a short journey on a train early on, which is perfect.

    Be everwell.

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  2. #WorldOfOntyre 07

    Am I busy? Oh yeah.

    I’m finishing the targeted edit on Book-6, and will then immediately jump into the novella that’ll accompany it. As soon as that’s done, I’ll begin the process for publishing Book-5.

    Meanwhile, I’m generating notes on a Pannulus Mystery, along with analyzing the issues with the one I drafted last Dec. when I had Covid. Oh, and there our novella romances…

    Be everwell.

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  3. #WorldOfOntyre 07

    Am I busy? Oh yeah.

    I’m finishing the targeted edit on Book-6, and will then immediately jump into the novella that’ll accompany it. As soon as that’s done, I’ll begin the process for publishing Book-5.

    Meanwhile, I’m generating notes on a Pannulus Mystery, along with analyzing the issues with the one I drafted last Dec. when I had Covid. Oh, and there our novella romances…

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  4. #WorldOfOntyre 07

    Am I busy? Oh yeah.

    I’m finishing the targeted edit on Book-6, and will then immediately jump into the novella that’ll accompany it. As soon as that’s done, I’ll begin the process for publishing Book-5.

    Meanwhile, I’m generating notes on a Pannulus Mystery, along with analyzing the issues with the one I drafted last Dec. when I had Covid. Oh, and there our novella romances…

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  5. #WorldOfOntyre 07

    Am I busy? Oh yeah.

    I’m finishing the targeted edit on Book-6, and will then immediately jump into the novella that’ll accompany it. As soon as that’s done, I’ll begin the process for publishing Book-5.

    Meanwhile, I’m generating notes on a Pannulus Mystery, along with analyzing the issues with the one I drafted last Dec. when I had Covid. Oh, and there our novella romances…

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  6. #WorldOfOntyre 07

    Am I busy? Oh yeah.

    I’m finishing the targeted edit on Book-6, and will then immediately jump into the novella that’ll accompany it. As soon as that’s done, I’ll begin the process for publishing Book-5.

    Meanwhile, I’m generating notes on a Pannulus Mystery, along with analyzing the issues with the one I drafted last Dec. when I had Covid. Oh, and there our novella romances…

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  7. #WorldOfOntyre 06

    When I began Kovenlore Chronicles, children weren’t on my radar. What did I know about writing kids? How could they possibly fit into my stories?

    Yet, they did.

    Maybe it was the horror of watching real adults mortgage their children’s futures? Or was it devaluing their education? Crimes against children, maybe? Epstein, anyone?

    Children deserve respect, love, and a future.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  8. #WorldOfOntyre 06

    When I began Kovenlore Chronicles, children weren’t on my radar. What did I know about writing kids? How could they possibly fit into my stories?

    Yet, they did.

    Maybe it was the horror of watching real adults mortgage their children’s futures? Or was it devaluing their education? Crimes against children, maybe? Epstein, anyone?

    Children deserve respect, love, and a future.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  9. #WorldOfOntyre 06

    When I began Kovenlore Chronicles, children weren’t on my radar. What did I know about writing kids? How could they possibly fit into my stories?

    Yet, they did.

    Maybe it was the horror of watching real adults mortgage their children’s futures? Or was it devaluing their education? Crimes against children, maybe? Epstein, anyone?

    Children deserve respect, love, and a future.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  10. #WorldOfOntyre 06

    When I began Kovenlore Chronicles, children weren’t on my radar. What did I know about writing kids? How could they possibly fit into my stories?

    Yet, they did.

    Maybe it was the horror of watching real adults mortgage their children’s futures? Or was it devaluing their education? Crimes against children, maybe? Epstein, anyone?

    Children deserve respect, love, and a future.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  11. #WorldOfOntyre 06

    When I began Kovenlore Chronicles, children weren’t on my radar. What did I know about writing kids? How could they possibly fit into my stories?

    Yet, they did.

    Maybe it was the horror of watching real adults mortgage their children’s futures? Or was it devaluing their education? Crimes against children, maybe? Epstein, anyone?

    Children deserve respect, love, and a future.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  12. #WorldOfOntyre 05

    The targeted edit of this book in the Kovenlore Chronicles continues, and some of the chapters are taking a toll.

    Following a character’s downward spiral is a little close to home for me.

    Coupled with other pressures, this has been a challenge, but I refuse to let it get the better of me. Working hard to recover back then means having the strength to persevere.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  13. #WorldOfOntyre 05

    The targeted edit of this book in the Kovenlore Chronicles continues, and some of the chapters are taking a toll.

    Following a character’s downward spiral is a little close to home for me.

    Coupled with other pressures, this has been a challenge, but I refuse to let it get the better of me. Working hard to recover back then means having the strength to persevere.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  14. #WorldOfOntyre 05

    The targeted edit of this book in the Kovenlore Chronicles continues, and some of the chapters are taking a toll.

    Following a character’s downward spiral is a little close to home for me.

    Coupled with other pressures, this has been a challenge, but I refuse to let it get the better of me. Working hard to recover back then means having the strength to persevere.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  15. #WorldOfOntyre 05

    The targeted edit of this book in the Kovenlore Chronicles continues, and some of the chapters are taking a toll.

    Following a character’s downward spiral is a little close to home for me.

    Coupled with other pressures, this has been a challenge, but I refuse to let it get the better of me. Working hard to recover back then means having the strength to persevere.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  16. #WorldOfOntyre 05

    The targeted edit of this book in the Kovenlore Chronicles continues, and some of the chapters are taking a toll.

    Following a character’s downward spiral is a little close to home for me.

    Coupled with other pressures, this has been a challenge, but I refuse to let it get the better of me. Working hard to recover back then means having the strength to persevere.

    Be everwell.

    #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon

  17. #WorldOfOntyre 04

    In Kovenlore Chronicles, many characters are attempting to fix what’s wrong in the nation after the country was allowed to slip away 50 years before.

    The price is steep. “The untethered life,” as Glistenelle calls it, but also the ultimate sacrifice for some.

    And all because the leaders of yesterday ignored the signs and the warnings.

    How powerful, how useless, is hindsight.

    Be everwell.

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  18. #WorldOfOntyre 03

    As anxious and awkward as Riparia is, there are times when she’s rash thanks to allowing her outrage to get the better of her.

    Yet, it’s often those times when she pushes through her anxiety that are most memorable. She doesn’t vanquish her angst, but instead finds the strength to push through it.

    Anxious people don’t receive enough credit for what they do.

    Be everwell.

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  19. #WorldOfOntyre 02

    I often think about book order, but at last needed to create this simple graphic for a blog post.

    It shows two sequences for Kovenlore Chronicles. The “Reading Order” is the publishing order, and avoids one book spoiling another.

    “Chronological Order” is self explanatory.

    It might seem hard to believe, but Book-3 spoils Book-2 if read first, but it wouldn’t if rereading.

    Be everwell.

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  20. #WorldOfOntyre 01

    So, Maniff’s half of Book-3…

    I always wonder how many people think, “It’s about his search for “the unexpected, which is, of course, Riparia. Boring.”

    That’s what he does, but it isn’t what his story is about. The end of the book makes that clear. After all, parts of it make me cry.

    His arc also contains info critical to Books 4&5, and is him unmasked, unlike in Book-1.

    Be everwell.

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  21. #WorldOfOntyre 31

    I love my sabertooth cats, which are first seen in Book-1, but I also adore mammoths. They’re mentioned. A character named Mammoth appears in Book-2.

    Yeah, fine, but where are the mammoths?

    It’s funny how what we desperately want included keeps slipping between the cracks—until it doesn’t.

    Book-4 rectifies their absence, and it’s an unexpected character who sees them.

    Be everwell.

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  22. #WorldOfOntyre 30

    When I overhauled my Carrdia worldbuilding in 2015, it went from resembling the Middle Ages to the Victorian Era, which led to an interesting decision.

    I kept the old worldbuilding to start, and then I systematically dismantled it.

    It isn’t a straight line. Instead, it’s an evolution, with the two coexisting for much of the series while paralleling a character’s evolution.

    Be everwell.

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  23. #WorldOfOntyre 29

    Two characters are introduced on page one of Book-1 of the Kovenlore Chronicles, Trust in the Forgotten.

    The first is Riparia Dellbane, the main character in the series, depending on how certain events result.

    The second is Doppla, her horse, but Doppla is a lot more than that, as is shown through the book. If anyone could be called anxious Riparia’s counselor, it’s Doppla.

    Be everwell.

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  24. #WorldOfOntyre 28

    There was a major event in my personal life yesterday that required I leave home in the morning. Upon returning, and exhausted after considerable driving, I managed to edit a chapter.

    I managed it because I’d started the night before, and had chosen a short chapter to work on in anticipation.

    As a result, and against the odds, I remain on schedule, and finally well rested.

    Be everwell.

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  25. #WorldOfOntyre 27

    Practitioners, the Ministry’s preachers. Except, not.

    In truth, they are sadistic torturers wielding fire who seek out those with magic, killing them outright, or taking them to Knoss to have their lifeforce added to the crypt vessel.

    For a while, I also called them “the unseen” because their faces were hidden, but it was confusing so I went with the innocuous name only

    Be everwell.

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  26. #WorldOfOntyre 26

    I discovered that I was an INFJ in 2014. I cried. Before I made the discovery, I’d thought I was crazy, and was too often treated that way.

    It had a profound impact on my writing, ushering in the “new age” where I changed how I wrote, what I wrote, and my worldbuilding in 2015.

    It isn’t easy being an INFJ. In fact, it’s a lonely road in life, but at least I understand me.

    Be everwell.

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  27. #WorldOfOntyre 25

    Depression is common for writers and INFJs. I’m both, and can’t take medication for it.

    I used to suffered through it, but these days, I battle it, I do everything in my power to loosen its grip, and it works. Depressive episodes of weeks have become days.

    Depression wants me to retreat. No thanks.

    Editing, hiking, meditation, reading, walking, writing, yoga, I do it all.

    Be everwell.

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  28. #WorldOfOntyre 24

    I just finished reading Fahrenheit 451 for the first time in five decades. The short novel is well remembered for burning books and suppressing knowledge.

    Yet, what struck me was how people had lost interest, their attention spans virtually nil, their obsession sitting in front of screens and watching programs.

    It required no imagination at all to translate it to today.

    Be everwell.

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  29. #WorldOfOntyre 23

    Where I live used to be at the bottom of vast Glacial Lake Missoula during the 100 times it flooded and drained to the west.

    I’m pretty excited about that. Geology is fascinating, but I’ve always been in love with the ice age.

    That’s why Ontyre has mammoths and sabertooth cats, and even ice age gargoyles (it is otherworld fantasy, after all). It was the demand my school age self made.

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  30. #WorldOfOntyre 22

    Looking back at January 2018:

    • Began 1st year recovered from an 8-year illness
    • 1st year working in 4 years.
    • Started a writing journal (still going strong!)
    • Struggling to continue Kovenlore Chronicles, I decided to change my MC to Riparia
    • Drafted Riparia’s origin poem in one sitting
    • Was colorizing the Tremjara map
    • Oddly enough, it wasn’t a great month, or year, for writing

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  31. So yesterday's plan to be organized and productive was smacked down by a day-long migraine.

    Here's hoping today goes better, Mastodonians. My task-list is in the hashtags 😜.

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