The Dragonscarred of Ticonderos, Pt. 1 – Elnard, Kingdom of the Northwest Tundra

Scattered human realms, recently independent from a tyrant, warring, politicking, and backstabbing one another for control of six powerful dragon scales. In the years after the Dragonlord’s defeat, the Dragonscarred have reconsolidated power a handful of times as wars of military might as well as political and even religious ideology continued to scorch the earth …

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 …

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.” …

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. 3 – The Great Ford

A huge, underground river flows just east of the barren tunnels at the edge of the Serpent’s Vaults, and a mighty keep rules this river, serving as massive dam, castle, and center of irrigation all at once. The Dhogem that live in this region are an odd juxtaposition — both simple-minded and cosmopolitan at once. …