Thursday Writing Thoughts: Adventure is exotic and strange…

Adventure is love in strange places. It is whatever is exotic and strange. Adventure is doing things we’ll probably never do, going to the brink of danger and returning safely. – Ronald B. Tobias, 20 Master Plots and How to Build Them As you might imagine, while I’ve been wrestling with the current Neeka chapter and…

Neeka’s Story: Discover Challenge – Learning

Welcome back to Neeka’s Story (which is eventually going to need a better name) as I let the WordPress Discover Challenge writing prompt inspire me to move this story forward chapter by chapter each week. Today’s prompt is Learning: For this week’s challenge, share a story … about learning something new. What were you trying to accomplish? Was…

Thursday Writing Thoughts: A simple word…

A simple word or phrase on a blank sheet of paper gathers momentum as I wonder at what it could mean, where it could take place, why, and what if? . . . And then, I write. ~ Tyrean Martinson, A Jumble of 500+ Writing Prompts I found this quote very appropriate for today as I contemplate…

Very Tired Dragon by AskyPanda (and a fic rec!)

Here’s a cute little guy called Very Tired Dragon by Russian deviantartist AskyPanda.  I wonder what the papers in his hand say?  Maybe he’s looking at my latest posting schedule and lamenting how off-track I’ve gotten lately… I’m behind on posting Neeka chapters, but last night I made some good progress on last week’s prompt,…

GOT: Dragon Viserion by IrenBee

It’s Game of Thrones Sunday, so here is a wonderfully detailed piece called Game of Thrones: Dragon Viserion by Ukranian deviantartist IrenBee.  I’m partial to Viserion, and this is a great picture of him!  IrenBee has many more great pictures in her gallery, so go check it out! I’ve been travelling all weekend so I haven’t…

Puff by Jared Dahlheimer

This is Puff, as in Puff the Magic Dragon, by American deviantartist Jared Dahlheimer, posting as Jarad1481.  Having this version of Puff as an imaginary (or was he?) friend would have been amazing as a child. I found this piece of art while I was looking for images of Puff for the letter P during last month’s AtoZ Challenge,…

Neeka’s Story: Discover Challenge – Apologies (and a story recap!)

I switched up my days for posting this because yesterday the Writing Thoughts post just had to be written and wouldn’t leave me alone, so I hope you forgive me.  This week’s Discover Challenge theme is, appropriately, Apology: Apologies — giving them, receiving them, accepting them, withholding them — are powerful …. They’re moments of vulnerability, of profound…

Neeka’s Story: Discover Challenge – Chance Encounters

I used to call this the Tuesday Discover Challenge… and since I moved the post to Wednesday, I guess I could have renamed it.  But the whole point of doing this writing challenge every week is to move my new cyberpunk story forward, to get Neeka’s Story on to the page, so I thought I’d…

The Summer Dragon, a novel by Todd Lockwood, with cover art The Evertide

This awesome painting is called The Evertide by Todd Lockwood, and is the cover art of Todd’s first novel, The Summer Dragon: First Book of the Evertide, just released today! I preordered my copy of The Summer Dragon and received it right away in this morning’s mail.  I’ve already read the exciting prologue, and can’t wait to read more in this…