Worldbuilding: Hordes of Reasons

Sometimes you just want to give your characters something to fight and survive. No pesky moral questions, no politics, no negotiations; just kill or be killed. At the end you’re alive, someone or something else is dead,

A Long Road Chapter 12 Ficbit – One Letter

Talia frowned. “I believe there’s a danger. But the Jianghu is very far away, and if the sects have any skill in politics and power there are limits to how much they’ll risk just to strike at us. What aren’t you telling me?”

Book Review: The Everyday Meat Guide

The Everyday Meat Guide: a neighborhood butcher’s advice book, by Ray Venezia with Chris Peterson. I’m going to give this four out of five stars; it has a lot of interesting information, but wasn’t quite as useful as I hoped.

A Long Road Chapter 12 Ficbit – Three Great Sects

The part of her that was just Talia wanted to hug them in sympathy. The part that was the Monarch’s Own wanted to kidnap them to a nice warm room with hot mulled cider and ask all the questions.

On Writing: Gnawing Through Leather

Seen once and never forgotten: “Some days, it just doesn’t pay to gnaw through the leather straps.”

There are times writing is just like that.

A Long Road Chapter 12 Ficbit – More Problems

Talia raised her head. “We’ve faced Ancar. I’ve been in his hands and survived. So I know a little, maybe only a very little, of what your people endured under Wen Ruohan.

Worldbuilding: Where to Hide Sealed X in a Can

No, not about storage caches when prepping for the Apocalypse. We’re talking Sealed Evil in a Can. Or Sealed Good. Or Lost Artifacts. Or any of a number of items and people that you want in your plot, but don’t want your general population to know about or encounter until the appropriate story moment.

A Long Road Chapter 12 Ficbit – A Bit Tricky

“Lan and Nie are here. Y-your Queen must have heard of the fall of the sun. Why… why our sect deserved to be brought down.” Wen Qionglin braced himself, and raised his head. “W-why would you let us go?”

TV Series Review: Bring It On, Ghost

AKA as “Let’s Go, Ghost”, this 2016 supernatural k-drama is currently up on Youtube. The 16 one-hour episodes tell an urban fantasy of a very lively ghost girl, Kim Hyun-ji, and a grumpy college student, Park Bong-pal, stuck seeing ghosts whether he likes it or not. Usually, not.

A Long Road Chapter 12 Ficbit – A Quiet Talk

“May we sit down?” Hazel eyes smiled at them. “Healer Crathach and I would like to talk to both of you.”

Eep?