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The Adventurer’s Guide: Saikasu

On August 29, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Magical Realism, Scenebuilding, The Stars Went Out, Writing6 Comments

Umi Siskin of Lumis leads the mischievous Prince Tatsuya of Planet Cygnet across the Plutonian Sea to the land of alchemists and rebirth.

Rearview

On August 25, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fiction, Writing3 Comments

Sadie owned the most remarkable pair of green eyes Iván had ever itched to paint.

Day 22: The Patriarch’s Letter

On July 25, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Magical Realism, Storybuilding, WritingLeave a comment

Why the sixteenth patriarch of Regnor had invited him to his residence was still unclear to Umi.

Day 13: Orchid Mantis

On July 15, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Fiction, Storybuilding, The Stars Went Out, Writing3 Comments

He killed any fondness for his favorite game, of spotting the nervous buttonquails when they ran. He thought not at all of being sent off to bed without haggard carers and squabbling sisters.

Day 9: Smoke Woman

On July 11, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Magical Realism, The Stars Went Out, WritingLeave a comment

Black smoke bled through the window, billowing over Shardae’s bed in a great cloud. Shardae backed away as it spilled from the sheets to the tile, and a lounging shape began to take form.

Day 4: Stranger Tastes

On July 6, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Storybuilding, The Stars Went Out, WritingLeave a comment

“Regnor has a history with magic like this. We’ll send him there.”

Day 3: Priestess’s Tower

On July 5, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Fantasy, Magical Realism, Storybuilding, The Stars Went Out, WritingLeave a comment

Umi caressed the careful stitching of petals in his fingers. Would life have felt like pink embroidery if he’d gone the path meant for him? For her, he denied. Not me. Yet here he sat in the priestess’s tower.

Day 30: Mayfly Graves

On June 16, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Black Dragon, Fantasy, Storybuilding, WritingLeave a comment

It took them hours to reach it—a flat, dark lake with coarse water, sheltered by the broken sides of what had once been a quarry. James didn’t say it, but Eric knew he could have covered three times their distance in half the time if he'd gone alone.

Day 27: Gennaro

On June 11, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Black Dragon, Fantasy, Scenebuilding, Writing1 Comment

“Naples Cathedral,” Lizzy said. “The Assumption of Mary, or the Cathedral of Saint Januarius, if you prefer.”

Writer Confessions 3

On May 26, 2019June 9, 2019 By Elyan WhiteIn Writer Confessions, WritingLeave a comment

Talking writer problems to a non-writer is a bit like chatting up a flat-earther: you assume you're on the same page until you aren't. Every writer writes differently, of course. But on the off-chance you relate, here are the deep, gritty confessions (and precautions) of a habitual fiction-writer.

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