Back With a New Era

Greetings and salutations. I really think there must be something wrong with me. I just completed the rough draft to "Welcome to Avernus". This is my sixth manuscript, four with Clevenger, and two solo. We are finalizing our edits with our debut novel, "War of Night", and are stepping into the significant editing process for …

The Writing Ettin is Dead

Greetings and salutations. Long time, no see. I hope you have been doing well. It’s been a minute, and I have a lot to catch you up on. Clevenger was just down from Chicago this past weekend, and we got a lot of details locked down on our debut novel. We have an artist we …

Literally Literary (Villains)

Greetings and salutations. It is I , Graham. I'm writing this one in advance. At the time of posting, it will be two days after I have had major surgery. Hopefully I survived. I'm sure I did just fine. But regardless, today we are continuing our discussion on villains. In particular, it is time to …

Sith Happens

Greetings and salutations. It is I, Graham. So last week was, well, an issue. No blogs got posted, and that is all on me. I was the villain of last week's debacle. And speaking of villains, that is what we will be discussing for the next few weeks. We will be looking at villains from …

Difficult People Are Difficult

Greetings and salutations. It is I, Graham. Last week we delved into some of the characters that are the most fun for me to write. This week I'm going to dive into the opposite, those character archetypes that are the more difficult, annoying, or frustrating for me to write. This is where I get to …

Casting Approval

Greetings and salutations. It is I, Graham. It's thrilling and scary, but we have been writing these blogs for more than a year now. Week in, week out, only missing a very few weeks due to minor things like cancer or work horrors causing distractions. This means we have covered a lot of topics. This …

Interview With the Dark Lord(s)

Hello Readers! Greetings and Salutations! It is us… Graham and Clevenger! Here to talk about the writing prompts we did last week.  Clevenger: Welcome Graham to Wednesdays! How’s things? Graham: Greetings and salutations, Clevenger. And to anybody reading. Things are going well. Clevenger: Good, good. So how’d the prompt treat you?  Graham: It was an …

Lord Traitor

They called him Traitor. Often he was the Dark Traitor. In his presence is was Lord Traitor, or else. There were plenty of folk stories as to where his name came from, and there was plenty of research into what his original name might have been. After all, when such a being has been in …

Writers, To Their Corners

Thanks, everyone, for tolerating our week off. As Clevenger mentioned, we ran a bit of an experiment. We took a list of interesting looking fantasy oriented writing prompts, and then we went back to our own corners and wrote our own short stories based on the prompt. Each story is about the length of a …

The Final Jar

The stone door slammed shut, echoing through the chamber as Marrick, the mage, scrambled across the chamber, reaching out. “No!” he screamed, his hands clawing at the door’s edge in vain. The seal hissed shut, mocking them, and the only sound left was the scratching of Marrick’s fingernails against the stone. The mage’s fingertips smudged …