Old Compositions – The Ant and the Chrysalis

I’ve been cleaning my train wreck of a room and I’ve stumbled across a folder filled with old middle school worksheets for a composition class. This is like 2015, people. I was 14 and only JUST discovering I liked writing. These are a nightmare. The purpose of this class was to learn how to take……

Commonplace Book 22

“But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have been too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout STOP! Then to do it.” – The Two Towers ~ JRR Tolkien   “Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of te alphabet. It’s enough to make you lose……

52 Prompts – 52 Stories

Super short post, so you get a bonus today! So a friend of mine, La Creadora Phantasma, has been working on this project for a little while, and I’m super excited to say I will be participating in this little challenge doohickey thing. She doesn’t have a big enough following for people to come back……

Hiatus of a Sort? And Camp NanoWrimo, Attempt No. 2

So I obviously don’t have too much time to run this blog. You can tell by the lackluster absence of any true content and my lacking-in-personality commonplace posts. I doubt anyone truly likes those but they’re the only form of content I have consistently until December. In any case, Camp Nanowrimo #2 is coming up……

The Stealth Master’s Shadow – Tiny Book Review/Announcement of Release

It’s been ten confounded years since the war ended. Verus, a retired soldier, determines to enforce the peace the victory ought to have brought. His wanderings bring him to the city of Nerva, a sprawling riverside chaos no other Stealthmaster will touch. Commandeering the task of a former comrade, Verus presents himself to the governor……

The Beach Witch

I was sitting on the sand on my first evening at the beach, we had just driven a few hours and had unpacked, and I had wrapped myself in a towel to keep off the sun (I had no sunscreen on). And I laughed and thought of myself as a beach witch. Beach witches in……

Commonplace Book 21

A horse rides the way it’s ridden.” – Riding Freedom ~Pam Munoz Ryan Every time you fall, you learn what not to do the next time. – Riding Freedom ~ Pam Munoz Ryan   “When the child of Morning, rosy-fingered dawn appeared to break morning upon the mortals.” – The Odyssey ~ Homer   “It is a lovely……