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Why an epilogue?

I've had stories in my head for as long as I can remember. Ava's is in there pretty firmly now, and when someone on RR asked me about a chapter for Aspen, I just knew he needed one that would lead ...

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Epilogue - Aspen

Epilogue - Aspen

It was late, and the sun was setting over the vast plains and forests spread out to the west. Aspen sat in a chair on the small parapet that would have bee...

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New cover for book 2!

Book 2 is now Harrowing. I honestly wasn't too sure what to do with these 'extra' covers, so I decided to focus on some of the main characters. Since Rouge already has Sowing, I gave this ...

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Cultivation cover!

At least for now, this is the cover for book 5: Cultivation. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to improve it? I'm going to start work on a cover for book 2: Harrowing, next. Hint: A...

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Three books or five?

I've been reaching out to some people on Fiverr to see about getting help with formatting the books for print and ebook. Now, they, in turn, have been asking me some good questions, which have resu...

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Ava - Chapter One

Ava stared down at the spreadsheet displayed on her screen, tapping her stylus against her teeth with a soft click. “Just two hundred dollars, huh? Just.” She laughed bitterly, tossing...

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Ava

Ava is the protagonist of the next book in the Legendary Farmer universe. She's a tough, independent woman, who faces quite a challenge when she suddenly finds herself as...the last vampir...

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Grimalkin's Test - Chapter Two

Chapter Two

When one begins to take things for granted, it is best to venture forth upon a new adventure. Upon one’s return, they may find that they see things with new eyes. View Post

Maria

Sorry I didn't get a new chapter of Grimalkin done on Monday. My lovely child brought home a cold on her last day of school, and generously shared it with me. I can't think when my head is...

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Cunning plans

My daughter is out of school for the summer, so she's home, and while she's awesome and keeps busy playing Harvest Moon: One World, she's also very cute and distracting! Nonetheless, I'm working aw...

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Chapter One (GT)

Chapter One

While a lady never shirks her duty, it is also the duty of her family to remember that the lady has her own opinions.
-Lady Chatter...

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Okay, I can't stand it.

I'm officially not a fan of editing. It's hard. Waaay harder than editing papers or short stories in college. So, once a week, I'm going to write a chapter of something. I'm going to start with View Post

The End!

Here are Bree and Aspen side by side. I used Bree's image to crate Aspen's on Artbreeder, so they should look related. Now, why didn't I mark LF as a gender bender? 1) Bree wasn't really Aspen. She...

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Editing is hard!

Now that LF is complete, I'm going back to the beginning to look at edits, and I can see how much I've grown as a writer. There're a lot of tweaks to make in creating the imagery and character deve...

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Final chapter count

The last chapter of Legendary Farmer will be chapter 275. That means you have about two and a half weeks left of LF. Everyone who is a Patron at that time will be sent documents with all three book...

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One last sprint...

My daughter's school has Book Fair next week, and I really want to be done with LF before that because I signed up for way too many shifts. Fortunately, I think I'm only about two chapters...

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Drama!

I have things in game all wrapped up, and now I'm dealing with real life. How did Zoey get herself into this situation?!

(Oh, wait, my bad...)

Anyway, here's Amy as Gina. You'll underst...

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In-game to out

I'm writing chapters 266 and (part of) 267 today, which will wind things down in-game. The main story there is over, but there are a lot of much smaller stories to be told. I'm considering...

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Heroes

Chapter Two hundred sixty-five is done, and it was really hard to write. As I've gone along, things have often happened differently than I thought they would, since my heroes (and villains) sometim...

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Writer's Block

Have I talked about this before? I don't even remember 🤦‍♀️ I'm going to give a quick example today, though. Last Friday, I spent the day staring at this:

Chapter Two hundred...

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Three more chapters? Nah.

Atae and Gina just showed up, and theoretically I only have three more chapters before the book is supposed to be done (going by the 20% of the book should be the final arc thing). I'm not going to...

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Killing him softly

Just killed off another major character. The end is nigh!

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Challenges

Writing the end of a story I've been working on for so long is more difficult than anticipated. I have to reveal all the secrets I've been hoarding, and knowing when and how is hard. I fee...

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20ish chapters left!

My brother keeps telling me that the formula for a good/satisfying/well-paced ending is to have the beginning of the final arc take up the last 20% of the book. Book three is right on track to run ...

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Aspen or Rouge?

Waaaay back when I started LF, I began the way I did so I could get to know my characters. That's why there was a big chunk of just Aspen, and then a big chunk of just Rouge. When I do revisions, I...

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Down with villains!

I just killed off one of the villains, so look for that in about two weeks!

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Creative influences

My family moved from the Midwest to Seattle when I was nine. I wasn't exactly an outgoing kid, and I didn't make friends easily, so this was the time when I really started reading. My dad had a ton...

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Goblin Translation guide

Refuge is going to have some unwelcome guests soon, and they don't like to speak Common. Incidentally, these are the chapters where I discovered that I don't like having characters talking in a lot...

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Vacation time!

My kiddo is on spring break this week, so we're doing a little road trip. No big deal, but I'll be *gasp* away from my desk, so I doubt I'll be able to write much, if at all. I hope I can get some ...

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Jace and Fluff

It's spring break time, so there will only be four chapters this week, and four next week! (I figured that was better than 5 this week and three next? Yes? No?) But here are my 'inspiration' images...

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