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Author's Note May 2016
Author’s Note May 2016
Hello everyone. It’s been quite a while, hasn’t it? Well, while I’ve been silent on the site here, I’ve still been working on the novel, and surprise! It’s finished. Or rather, the first draft is finished. I’ll be frank, the reason I stopped updating the blog is because I realized that this format really wasn’t working. It was encouraging exactly the wrong sort of writing out of me, exposing my…
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TV show idea:
Baby boomers have to switch life situations with a millennial for a year. The millennial gets to live in their house (which they paid off like thirty or forty years ago) and work at their job that provides a good salary and benefits. The baby boomer has to live in the millennial’s shitty, overpriced apartment and struggle to pay rent and work a minimum wage part-time job as well as an unpaid internship in their (the baby boomer’s) field.
The show can be called Switching Cribs and every time the baby boomer throws a tantrum a little cartoon of a baby crying appears in the corner of the screen.
… …
Fund it.
With what money
I’m a millennial
YOUR DRAGON NAME
last two letters of your first name
middle two letters of your last name
first two letters of your mother’s name
last letter of your father’s name
mine would be Urlelan. Reblog and tag this with yours!
I love this because half of the people are getting amazing, fantasy names and the other half are getting unpronounceable ones.
Cylthen
Etrsta. Sounds like a Slavic dragon.
XXVII. Object Permanence
When Sig returned, he brought others: a pair of shadow-seeds and a fourth set of footsteps. Sig and the fourth person hung back at the entry of the smithy. Lia and her daughter came forward. The former met eyes with Marlom, her face still with caution. Treia crossed half the smithy in a few quick strides, her gaze fixed on the forge. “It’s so calm,” she said. Light from the forge glinted red in…
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XXV. Leaving Traces
Treia and her mother sat atop their bedrolls with their backs to the village. They had removed their mantles in the warmth of the drake’s eye, which hung just over the treeline. It seared its first unchecked golden rays over the plain. The two of them were speaking softly with each other and enjoying the spectacle. Lia was mid-word when the sound of a dragging body turned them around. The monster…
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Game idea: You play as a humble peasant who must fight off waves of adventurers who feel entitled to just waltz into your house and loot whatever they please.
LET GO OF MY CHEESE WHEEL YOU JERKFACE
Humble Peasant kills adventurers that enter their home
Humble Peasant keeps their weapons, magic items, and hold
Humble Peasant realizes that stronger and stronger adventurers are coming to claim their growing pile of loot
Humble Peasant builds traps and fortifications to keep them out
Humble Peasant procures exotic pets to help defend their home
Humble Peasant continues to amass more and more loot and attract stronger and stronger adventurers
Humble Peasant has to keep building up and fortifying their home, traps, and pets to keep the adventurers out
Humble Peasant suddenly realizes that they have accidentally built a dungeon. It’s a fucking dungeon now. It’s fortified and full of traps, monsters, and treasure, and the Humble Peasant is the boss.
Humble Peasant realizes that adventurers will never leave them alone now.
Humble Peasant hates adventurers.
Humble Peasant accidentally becomes major villain.
I’d play it
Interlude Two
Elyc brought his own light to the Lord’s Hall. He would have coaxed it from the gem at the end of his staff, but after using it on the smith-son it had cracked, and all that condensed ether had slipped away. A shame, but perhaps the least of his worries at the moment. Gloster sat in the dark, as so often pleased him. The only light he commanded in the hall came in the form of a pale white orb…
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my cat is v handsome and soft. he is Best Cat. your cat is also Best Cat, this is not a challenge. all cats are the Best, and that is science
thank you
My roommate’s cat is dumbest cat. He doesn’t even know how to cat. I suppose there have to be exceptions to the rule.
Author's Note May 2015, part two
I’ll get right to the point. Here’s what’s changed that you should catch yourself up on if you want to make sure Chapter Fifteen isn’t confusing. 1. A few extra characters have been introduced from among the volunteers and the soldiers that escorted Marlom and company to court. Among them is Havon Hammer, who shows up several times in the initial Blackened Keep arc due to the fact he is the…
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Chapter Eight Bonus Scene: Wyrmsbridge
Chapter Eight Bonus Scene: Wyrmsbridge
It wasn’t much like Marlom’s village. The many houses were tall with glass-paned windows on every wall and entries covered from dirt to ceiling by wooden doors. It must have taken three–four–trees to gather that much wood. More than that, the village’s fields were across the river, connected to the village itself by an arching stone structure dotted with carved images of the twisted horns and…
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Author's Note April 2015
Author’s Note April 2015
It has been a few days since I last left a note here. March passed in silence, and most of this month has crept by with sluggish progress. But here we are on my birthday, looking ahead to the future.
In a previous post I laid out a number of revisions I desire to make before I resume posting New chapters. Well, the new version of the Prologue is up, finally, and in the last two weeks I’ve gone…
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Appendix A. Names to Know
Appendix A. Names to Know
People:
Marlom – The son of a Folk village’s smith. He reached majority, the age of adulthood, while his parents were dying of fever.
Haman – The caretaker of the well in Marlom’s village. While not a founder of the village (and bearing the paler features of people outside Folk lands) he views himself as the village’s leader.
Tanse – A young widower from Marlom’s village. He is still in mourning.
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How do u apply to jobs so quickly/easily??? omg
okay i am going to share with you my process, something i have developed over three years of job searching to make the whole nonsense as painless and quick as it can be.
so. first things first: make a google doc. at the very top of the google doc, set up a list of links to job boards, like so, here’s a snippet of my list:
note though that these aren’t just links to idealist, linkedin, whatever - these are links to searches. sites like idealist, linkedin, and charity village let you select options like location, level of experience, and salary range in order to filter job postings. set those filters, run a search, and then copy and paste the URL of that search into your list of job boards. this way, when you click on that link, you will get a list of all the jobs that are relevant to you, updated constantly. it’s quicker than running separate, individual searches every time. i check every board on my list once a day - having the list is a simple way to save time and streamline that whole process.
so, when i open up a job board, i quickly scan it for any positions i’m eligible for.
just by looking at these listings, i can immediately rule out the first one (it’s spam) and the third one (i don’t have any real background in health sciences). but the second job? right up my alley.
i open up the listing in a new tab and scroll right to the qualifications section to see if i’m qualified - no point reading an entire listing only to find out that i’m missing some mandatory criterion, like, idk, speaking spanish, or having a law degree. here’s what that section looks like in the horton’s kids listing:
i have every one of these qualifications, so, great, i can add this to my list.
remember that google doc with the list of job boards at the top? add another section: jobs to apply for. create entries for each listing that look something like this:
the name of the organization is a link to the job ad. i’ve also got the title of the job, the website of the organization, the day the ad was posted, the day i have to apply by, the day i DID apply (which i will fill in once i apply, and bump this to the “jobs i have applied for” section), and then a list of required elements of the application and any relevant details.
the next thing you need to do, and by far the hardest component of applying for jobs, is to write a cover letter. make it a good one. and by this, i don’t mean, “sit down and write out a page-long cover letter for every single job you apply to” - i mean, write a strong cover letter that describes who you are and what your qualifications are, and include a couple of places where you can “personalize” the letter to include details that are specific to the job posting. basically, just write a really good canned cover letter and include three or four sentences that specifically address the job and why you are what they specifically are looking for. if you’re applying for different types of jobs, you can have different types of canned cover letters - for instance, i have separate cover letter templates for communications jobs, administrative jobs, policy jobs, and lgbtq/feminist organization jobs. each one highlights different pieces of my resume that are relevant to those areas, and all i have to do is plug in a few details about the specific posting. but spend time on these canned cover letters. make them good. make them not sound canned.
anyway, once you’ve written your cover letter, send the e-mail, attach the resume, and move the listing to the “jobs i have applied for” section. do this as quickly as possible. like, ideally, the day the posting goes up. never wait for the deadline to submit an application. i like to colour code listings, just for personal convenience - yellow = the deadline hasn’t passed yet, red = rejection, green = you’ve been asked to interview. oh and number your applications.
once you’ve submitted your job application, keep track of any developments in your application like this:
honestly as someone who lives with an anxiety disorder, and for whom job applications are especially stressful, this approach works for me because it’s so systematic. i don’t have to agonize over every single little detail. i can just scan my job boards, make an entry on my list, send a cover letter and resume, and move tf on. and as long as my cover letter is good and i’m attentive about sending applications in as soon as i can, i don’t sacrifice quality.
i hope that helps??? let me know if you want any more tips. <3
this showed up at a perfect time.
*furious note-taking*
Prologue, Take Two
A thump from above jolted Elyc from his notes. He cursed as the rune he was spelling flared, lighting a ring of fire on its fine white linen medium. With some quick work he might have salvaged it, but a breath’s space after the thump came the low keen of a bell, and a waft of the noxious presence of Dark Fire peeling at the ether, and in the moment it took to collect himself the half of his…
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Author's Note February 2015, part two
We’ve come to the cusp of a very important moment for Forging the Shade, and after reviewing and thinking I’ve decided that we aren’t ready for it yet. If I wasn’t working twelve hour shifts this week I might have tried to make the revisions I wanted to make, or put out a rough draft of the map I wanted to share with you all, but I don’t currently have the time to do what I want with the story…
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