I think Lan goes into bouts of inner thoughts more often than Eirika. I suppose that can't be helped, as they are two different viewpoints altogether. All the same, there isn't much action in the first chapter with him, though I suppose with all of the action being packed into Eirika's first chapter, this couldn't [...]
More Lan goodness! His POV is a little different from Eirika's mainly because she's my action girl, and Lan is the type of guy who thinks his feelings through. Here, we see a bit of what drives Lan emotionally--or at least, we get a bit of background to his melancholy. Previous excerpt can be found HERE. [...]
I totally survived--and won!--NaNoWriMo! That said, I haven't exactly finished my novel, and right now it's probably only the halfway point, so further celebrations would have to go on hold until after I've actually followed through on this story. This week, I've decided to branch out of Eirika's POV and into Lan Dulahunty's POV. Lan [...]
NaNoWriMo has pretty much taken over my writing life. Images of floating cities and stone-powered airships have taken over my daydreams. Even my reading material has been taken over by steampunk stories--both good and horrible. So is it any surprise that my excerpt below is coming from my steampunk NaNoWriMo work? The excerpt is a [...]
Partly because the anthology is being released in the next few months, and partly because I'm going to be working on more Southeastern inspired stories, I finally decided on an excerpt! The passage describes the Philippine Islands after a cataclysmic disaster of volcanic eruptions. "There's not much to see below." Nothing but barren land and [...]
Story and Somnomancy 