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Daily Snippit: High/Second World Fantasy

Falling through a portal into another world was fun for about the first four hours. After that, the reaction tended to sink rather quickly from disbelief to depression. Very few of the OutKingdomers came through the portals with any useful skills, and most faced a future of simple manual labor. The concept that newcomers falling…

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Aaaaaaaaaaa!!!! *flails*

I just put the finishing touches on the Rise and Walk query letter and sent it off to the Evil Editor. *whimpers* I figure I can’t do any worse than the last few that passed over his desk, but… *nervously bites nails* I’m gonna get torn limb from limb methinks. -_-;; Oh well, at least…

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Because it was so much fun last time… (2/5)

Five Guess the Plot ideas submitted, four of five used, plus one comment by another reader that they would read a book based off the teaser I had written. How nifty is that? So anywho, here’s the next batch… The Healer’s Legacy – Not used (too evil?) In a god-blessed age where death comes only…

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Dreams of being Real…

There are some nights I despair about ever becoming a ‘real’ writer. Why these morose musing always wait until the dim hours after midnight, I have no idea. Perhaps it’s because I fade out from reality when I get sleepy, like a drunk who is convinced the pink elephants are always there, he just can’t…

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Daily Snippit: Science Fiction

The felines had no word for hot or cold, they simply referred to those as not-warm, a convention widely used through out their language. Comfort was the norm, and thus anything that fell beyond those boundaries was simply not-comfort. They had no word for wet, or tired, or hungry, and no understanding of why such…

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