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Narrated by Naomi Welcome to the first post of Monstrous Monday, so named because I'll be taking a look at different creatures that are considered 'other than human.' I know the unicorn doesn't typically fit the general idea of monstrous, but in some places, it is considered a monster. Most notably, in Dungeons and Dragons … Continue reading Monstrous Monday – Unicorn
Narrated by Naomi Hello again and welcome to another World Building Sunday. I hope everyone is doing well. ^_^ Last week, we took a look at building a city. Today, we want to take a look at creating your continents, with a little bit of backtracking for mapmaking purposes because of a couple of awesome … Continue reading World Building – Creating Continents and Maps
A Mage, His Daughter, and Two Apprentices Mud squelched under foot while Amarynthe plodded through the marshy ground, eyes peeled for the particular plant she was searching for. The walking stick in her hand helped make sure she didn’t get mired anywhere as the basket over her other arm swung with each labored step. Blowing … Continue reading The Mage’s Magicless Daughter – Chapter One
Welcome to Wordy Wednesday! Today we're going to look at color adjectives and the myriad ways in which we can use them. Of course there are a plethora of accepted and standard colors in the English language you can use to describe any number of things (ROYGBIV anyone?). There's nothing wrong with referring to the … Continue reading WW – Color Adjectives
Looking for a short and bittersweet tale of love, loss, and recovery with a hint of fantasy from a pair of contemporary dancers? Then I encourage you to take a look at 'And I You.' It is a fanfiction piece featuring Sungmin from Super Junior and Sunny from Girls' Generation but in this story, they … Continue reading And I You (Short Story)
Okay! Today we're going to take a step by step look at building a city, though not actual mapmaking or sketching this time. I still need to find a good site or app for that. Currently, I still do that by hand... Now, you could obviously do this on your own by winging it and … Continue reading World Building – Constructing a City
I don't know if this will become a regular Wednesday occurrence but it did happen to come to me on a good day considering today is Wednesday. haha The potential plan is to focus on something to do with words in the English language every week or every other week, depending on what comes to … Continue reading Wordy Wednesday – Homophones
This is another oneshot I'm migrating here that was submitted to Glimmer Train a little while ago. It started as a fluffy fanfiction piece but I touched it up and made some much needed changes the second time around. It didn't go anywhere with Glimmer Train but I'm still satisfied with it. It's now more … Continue reading A Serendipitous Cancellation
For some people, it's a very daunting task. And it is a big thing to do if you're creating a world from the ground up. I have found that, most of the time, you can generally base your world off of Earth settings and be mostly okay. But... what if you're doing a sci-fi, fantasy, … Continue reading World Building – Initial Steps and Some Helpful Resources
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