Category: Confessions of a Writing Freak

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I’m Saying Goodbye to New Year’s Resolutions

After years of making and breaking resolutions, I’m saying goodbye to New Year’s resolutions. Here’s why.

Book Series Change

Since January, I’ve been nose to the grindstone, and I need a break. I’m pushing the release date for The Chronicles of Discovery Book 3 back by one month. After a couple of weeks to recharge, I know I’ll be ready to finish book 3. I’m obsessed with this series and look forward to bringing…
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Latest Downtime Project

I can’t stay still for long. Even my downtime is semi-organized into projects. My latest project has been creating a space for the world of Illia where The Chronicles of Discovery series takes place. Enter WorldAnvil, which is like is a world-building space for novelists, dungeon masters, and game creators. I have been keeping all…
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The Broken Bond is Free

 As I’ve been posting for the last few weeks, I will release the first book in the Chronicles of Discovery in April. The Broken Bond will introduce you to the world of Illia and its inhabitants. What I didn’t tell you was that this first in a series book is free. Yes, you heard me…
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Journey into Mapmaking

When I started to make a map of Illia, I found a browser map site called Azgarr’s Fantasy Map Generator. I played with the configurations until I found something I liked. Be warned though. If you don’t download to your Dropbox you and just save to your browser if you clear your browser cache you…
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The Chronicles of Discovery

For those of you who’ve read The Broken Bond, you know that the ending is not nice tied up into a happily ever after or even a happy for now. I wrote the book twice, even after losing the entire book and much of the data back in the Great Data Loss of May 2021.…
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Trying Something New

I will be the first to admit I’m not the most outgoing person ever. I have trouble sometimes interacting with others, not inside my small circle, and I take time to decompress after gatherings. I’m a typical introvert, and I don’t push myself to get involved with things that don’t interest me. That might have…
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The Naming of a Series

I’ve finally named UFBS (unnamed fantasy book series). The series’ name has become The Chronicles of Discovery. The books finally have better names than UFB1, UFB2, UFB3 (Unnamed Fantasy Book 1,2,3, respectively). Honestly, I was worried that I might not find a name I liked before I launched book one in April. I considered and…
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Happy Valentines Day

Almost everyone has heard of Saint Valentine and his birth or death was in the middle of February, hence the Holiday is known as Valentine’s Day. but did you know the holiday goes back further than that? Lupercalia was a pagan celebration at the Ides of February. There was a ceremonial sacrifice of animals, a…
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