All of the territory south of the arctic regions of the Ice-Heart Empress and Peltast’s Kingdom are referred to collectively by the northern humans and Oreiad alike as “The South,” but the Dragonscarred that dwell there subdivide those lands. There the humans refer to the dry bluffs and vast desert south of the High Mountains …
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Snowflake Method: Round 4, Pt. 2 – Paragraphical Paranthetical Parabolic Peregrin Falcons!
I don’t know what we’re yelling about. In round four of the Snowflake outlining method, I’m to expand every sentence of my one-paragraph (make that two paragraph) novel summary into a paragraph of its own. By my count that was 10 separate paragraphs. In part 1 of this round, I wrote six paragraphs, which means …
Snowflake Method: Round 4, Pt. 1 – Paragraphs on Paragraphs
Or how we dig into the meat and potatoes. So in this round, I’m supposed to take EVERY sentence in the one-paragraph summary of the novel’s plot and write a new paragraph for EACH of them. And I wrote a two-paragraph summary in the first place. So I’ve got something like 10 new paragraphs to …
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Snowflake Method: Round Three, Pt. 4
The Shopkeeper’s Wife only has four main characters (but a ton of side and minor characters), and so after this bio write-up, I can move onto the 4th actual stage of the Snowflake outlining method which is… (looks it up)… yikes. I’m supposed to take the one-paragraph summary of my novel and expand every sentence …
Snowflake Method: Round Three, Part Three
For our third main character, we focus on Nemo, Prince of Slumberland! Maybe you remember, but, well, likely not, but there was a very anime-esque, almost studio-Ghibli-esque animated movie released back in the early 90s (in fact, Hayao Miyazaki passed on directing it due to a lack of artistic freedom) called Little Nemo Adventures in …
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Snowflake Method: Round Three – Part Two
This one’s for Ziegander! My twitter handle. My online handle all across the web for many years. Ziegander was a character in a “fantasy epic” I started writing when I was like 16. It wasn’t good. It revolved around swords imbued with *absolute* elemental powers over, you guessed it, Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. And …
Waybetween 1st Novel: Snowflake Method, Round 3
Fight! Ahem, ok, this is a pretty intensely involved round. I am to distinguish the main characters of the book and create a one-page sort of bio for each of them. I am compiling a dossier of main characters, if you will. So, first comes identifying the main characters from the rest of the “chaff.” …
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Planning my first Waybetween Novel – The Snowflake Method
I plan to hit the ground running with my first ever novel, and my first novel set in the Waybetween! To that end, I will be needing to do some planning and do some outlining, and I’ve already begun using the Snowflake method. What’s the Snowflake method? I am glad you asked. So, the method …
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Shardbuilding: Dhogem Spirituality
Well, since I’ve gotten the general descriptions for all of the major Dhogem territories in The Deeps, next up in that vein would be the minor territories, and then some zoomed in looks at specifics within the territories. However, before we get into all that, I want to give some background information on one of …
The Dhogem of the Deeps, Pt. 6 – The Flameblossom Grotto
Tucked away toward the southwest corner of The Deeps, lies a bloom of fungus and flowers, struck through by miles of lava flow, unlike anything else found on Ticonderos. While much of the flora and rot found within the blooms of the Fungal Consortium harbor some magical property or another, the luminescent red, orange, and …
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