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One Nice Bug Per Day
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Misplaced Lens Cap
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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@weirdoutthere
Is about two and a half hours enough sleep to keep the mind and body working well enough...? Probably not, but here I am. I should try and get a nap in before work tonight, but we'll see what happens. I've got a couple of things to work on... it'll be alright. 🤘🏾👁️
Hopefully your week has started on the right (or left?) foot,
~E.L.F.
Definitely not enough. I hope it gets better soon.
Me: Summer in Indiana moves in like a creepy uncle, like a new character in a previously unreleased verse of Tom Petty’s Last Dance with Mary Jane.
Wife: Tom was already playing up the creepy in that song, I hate to think what kind of uncle he’d find creepy…
The challenge: Describe the same location twice: once from the perspective of someone who loves it and once from someone who hates it.
The lover:
Stately. If I had to put it in one word. The Temple of Hemliath radiates the kind of solemn comfort every story from the mrodeni conveys. I imagine sometimes I can smell the incense. The perfume of the worshippers. The sounds of their voices lifted in some hymn or another. Not a hymn, person, really, but the temple grabs you. Did you know there are sixty-four statues along the side walls? Every one of them was someone the locals valued. Not their religious icons. Not politicians. Everyday people. Half of them were librarians, I kid you not. It makes me proud. Even if my time excavating here doesn’t secure my tenure, I’ll carry the many walks up and down the rows of honored elders memorialized in stone for the rest of my life.
The hater:
You know what really creeps me out about this place? The bugs. As in, not one. Weird, right? No bugs. What kind of underground temple next to a necropolis has no bugs? No spiders. No centipedes. And that begs the question—doesn’t it? —what’s down there that keeps all the bugs out? Whatever it is, it’s got to be worse than bugs, and what’s worse than bugs? It’s a spooky place, too. Those statues? Did Hanni tell you? Sixty-four. Every one of them has those eyes that follow you, like one of those fancy paintings at the Inulsa Library. And they’re all judging, too. Don’t get me started on the pillars. Hubris. That’s what it is. Hubris. The kind where you find out later the ministry were all cannibals.
Describe the same location twice: once from the perspective of someone who loves it and once from someone who hates it.
New cover for the web novel I'm starting. Learn more and check out the first chapter on my site.
Shadowed Memories is a thrilling spiral into madness, and the concept of other worlds existing adjacent to ours. It’s a struggle between the natural world and that of the unbelievable. It’s also a great introduction to the character who has been on my mind for decades, Kurai Kage.
Chronological Order and Connections
Overheard in my car:
Me: Sometimes you have to go to extreme measures with yourself to get anything done.
Kiddo: I know. I told myself I didn't want noodles, so I compromised and got noodles.
The intro to the 2018 God of War is epic in ways a can't put words to. The beauty of the forest, the worn, weathered, and hand-crafted look to all the assets. Vibrant emotion in everything. Christopher Judge.
"In the direction of deer."
*dies
My latest post is up on Substack! Be sure to check it out, and subscribe to my Substack to get posts delivered directly to your email, no account needed. In this article I talk a little bit about the work that I have up on Inkitt that can be read for free. Enjoy, share, subscribe!
~E.L.F.
https://open.substack.com/pub/evanderlfragoso/p/looking-back-at-inkitt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5d3dar
In my ongoing quest for the best way to reach new readers I've taken a look at some avenues aside from Substack and ended up returning to Inkitt. If you've never explored the site/app before and are an avid reader, it's a good place to find new worlds to dive into. There's lots to read for free, and now there's a paid subscription option where authors can release chapters to their dedicated fans. I'll definitely consider something like that, especially since I already have a small presence there.
May your days be wonderful, sleep fulfilling, and creative spirit nourished by Meraki’s unending flames,
~E.L.F.
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Check out my latest post on Substack, where you can subscribe to get updates sent directly to your email. This drop talks a bit about how my works are interconnected, and lays out a bit of the plans for my volumes of Shadowed Memories: Dark Shadow, which I'm currently working on outlining.
Chronological Order and Connections
Don’t forget to breath, enjoy what you can, and bask Meraki’s cosmic waves of wonder and creativity, ~E.L.F.
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Another Annoyed Post
A friend recommended his favorite story to listen to (he does audiobooks), so I've been reading it, and the story itself is interesting so far, but the writing is killing me. It's a serialized story on Webnovel where the author released about two chapters a day for four years, with the story having a big fanbase. Since then, the author has gone on to work on other things, but my gosh is it depressing to read. The story isn't bad, or the subject matter depressing, but I'm 49 chapters in and the writing is still so very amateurish. I can acknowledge that it's great to be able to write this continuous story, releasing so much on a daily basis, but there's ridiculously repetitious paragraphs, and there are crazy little things like introducing someone holding a "rapier sword." A rapier is a type of sword!
Anyway, the point is, I understand that we live in an on-demand world where everything has to be quick and punchy, and that's how people are able to write things like this and get away with it (not to mention the horrendous declining literacy rates...) but that doesn't mean I have to settle.
I'm sticking with my plan, plotting out the volumes for my continuation to Shadowed Memories. I may be weighing my options on putting out rough drafts of chapters out there, with plans to publish them on my Substack for paid subscribers on top of other behind-the-scenes content while I think about going back to Inkitt, but I don't plan on compromising my worlds.
I’ll try and use some of this anguish and disdain for more chapter plotting.
Don’t forget to breath, enjoy what you can, and bask Meraki’s cosmic waves of wonder and creativity,
~E.L.F.
Another Annoyed Post
A friend recommended his favorite story to listen to (he does audiobooks), so I've been reading it, and the story itself is interesting so far, but the writing is killing me. It's a serialized story on Webnovel where the author released about two chapters a day for four years, with the story having a big fanbase. Since then, the author has gone on to work on other things, but my gosh is it depressing to read. The story isn't bad, or the subject matter depressing, but I'm 49 chapters in and the writing is still so very amateurish. I can acknowledge that it's great to be able to write this continuous story, releasing so much on a daily basis, but there's ridiculously repetitious paragraphs, and there are crazy little things like introducing someone holding a "rapier sword." A rapier is a type of sword!
Anyway, the point is, I understand that we live in an on-demand world where everything has to be quick and punchy, and that's how people are able to write things like this and get away with it (not to mention the horrendous declining literacy rates...) but that doesn't mean I have to settle.
I'm sticking with my plan, plotting out the volumes for my continuation to Shadowed Memories. I may be weighing my options on putting out rough drafts of chapters out there, with plans to publish them on my Substack for paid subscribers on top of other behind-the-scenes content while I think about going back to Inkitt, but I don't plan on compromising my worlds.
I’ll try and use some of this anguish and disdain for more chapter plotting.
Don’t forget to breath, enjoy what you can, and bask Meraki’s cosmic waves of wonder and creativity,
~E.L.F.
While my wife designed and made the fantastic cover for part one of Shadowed Memories (which I mirrored over and gray-scaled for part 2), I ended up making my own cover for the big-book version containing the whole story. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to toss onto the cover in the first place. “What’s something that could look good enough to catch a possible reader’s eye and give a glimpse of what they’ll find inside of these pages without giving away the whole story.” I ended up deciding that I wanted one of the shadow people on the cover. It’s an image that’s at least somewhat recognizable; if you haven’t experienced sleep paralysis and seen one of these humanoid shadows creeping towards you or leaning over your bed, you know someone who has. As you get deeper into the book, you’ll see the golden figure…
Anyway, I sketched up these cover ideas and my wife Katrina helped me settle on one design and gave plenty of feedback along the way, and that’s how I ended up with the final result. I actually thought about creating a few sketchy illustrations for the final book, the way I did for Making Contact, but decided against it in the end. I’m tossing around the idea of making a few for the next few books, there are already some scenes that I’ve cooked up while working on my plotting document that would be good candidates, but we’ll see what happens.
Well, that’s it, that’s the post for today. I hope it finds you well. Don’t forget to like, share, follow, etc. It really fills my heart with joy and helps with that drive to carry on with this big writing adventure. Let me know what you think about these sketches, my book covers, and my little illustrations in Making Contact.
May your days be wonderful, sleep fulfilling, and creative spirit nourished by Meraki’s unending flames,
~E.L.F.
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THE BOYS (2019-2026) 5x07 | The Frenchman the Female, and the Man Called Mother’s Milk
“This book is as handsome as the author!” 🥹🤣 It really makes me so happy to get pictures from people when my book arrives. Getting feedback as my readers dive into my stories is also one of the best feelings in the world! Thanks for picking it up, I hope you enjoy it! 😊~E.L.F.
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