Katherine KarchStory acceptance letter in my email inbox today! A lovely surprise on this rainy spring day.
Christina Anne HawthorneMy detour into Inverted Reversal is completed. I shot through the last chapters in a whirlwind.
Once again, I cried.
I won’t publish the novella because it’s backstory for Book-7. It’s also the saddest, most tragic story I’ve ever written. A character with no understanding of how magic works makes a critical mistake.
All I can do is witness, and cry, the sadness lingering.
Be everwell.
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Challenge #04844-M095: All Welcome Inn
They opened an Inn with a restaurant less than a half-mile from the opening to tunnels that lead to underdark cities. The rules were simple. Don't be an arse, everyone was welcome, and if you were too poor to afford food and shelter, no problem, you'll still be fed. The staff consisted of both sunsiders and people from the underdark working together, with the shift changing as the sun set and rose so that the place was always open for those in need. -- Anon Guest[AN: It's 'Everdark', which is legally distinct from Underdark (a wholly owned subsidiary of WotC) ]You could call it a Halfway House, being that it was halfway between two worlds - the upper and lower. Perched at the cavern entrance to one of the main trade roads to the Everdark, it's literally half in shadow. Half of the Inn's gardens were in the shelter of the caverns. So too was half the livestock. It's one of the few Inns in the area with a Weapons Check at the doors. Which also have Wards of Peace inlaid in the lintels.
Mostly because half the clientele are natural enemies of the other half.
Those who ran the place were extremely careful with their precautions. They had to be. As far as they knew, the All Welcome Inn was the only one that welcomed those from below as well as those from above. Deepfolk and sunsiders alike staffed the place. They were misfits, all of them. Nowhere else took them in, so they stayed there.
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04844-m095-all-welcome-inn
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My detour into Inverted Reversal has turned out to be a good thing. It’s rejuvenated me, reignited the spark.
In truth, what I’m doing I was going to have to do later, but doing it now is providing a break from targeted editing.
It’s also me experimenting with leaving more adverbs in the story. After, I’ll read through it and see what I think. I wish I’d done this long ago.
Be everwell.
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Challenge #04843-M094: Healer's Helper
Healing halls across the land hear of a miracle wine that allows healers to see broken bones and other internal injuries so they can treat them. While some lands, mainly those of greedy rulers who think such wonders should ONLY be for the nobility, forbid their healing halls to have it, most refuse such orders and beg Wraithvine to help them set up deliveries. This will greatly aid them in their work. Just like the invention of the vermin-repelling bands did.https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04822-m073-a-glass-for-your-health (the wine)(Can't find the prompt, but Wraithvine helped an inventor test a special band that repelled all fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, and all other vermin that plagues travelers, esp. near swamps.) -- Anon Guest[AN: I can't find it either, Nonny. I've tried three different ways for quite a bit of time. I leave it to those with better memories or more time on their hands]It's the little things that revolutionise the art of healing. A spell where the material component involved a needle made of ivory. A simple band worn on the wrist that repelled verminous insects. They were immense help to hospices and healer's wards. Just like constant cleaning helped keep pestilence from the sickbeds.
Now there were whispers of a new advancement. A special vintage that could render the body clear enough to literally see what the problem was. Assuming the problem could be visible to the naked eye in the first place.
Adventurers were sent off to find where it was made, and only where it was made. The biggest trouble was finding the kinds of adventurers who avoided becoming murder hobos.
Trusting Adventurers to order wine for them was a step too far. They were more likely to drink it and then misuse it.
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04843-m094-healers-helper
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Okay, I took a temporary detour.
I should’ve started the targeted edit on Trellis House yesterday, but I needed a break. Targeted editing is intense and demanding. On the edge of burnout, I needed a change.
So, I’m revising the novella Inverted Reversal, a key backstory for Book-7. I won’t be publishing it, so it’s a more casual task.
Except that the story is heartbreaking.
Be everwell.
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Challenge #04842-M093: Multi-Level Marketing
They were a "sunsider", but they went to the Everdark quite frequently for trade. They were viewed and treated as unwelcome for quite a while, until it became clear they held no prejudice against any cognizant species. They always traded fair, and had no qualms of paying even a higher rate charged due to them being a sunsider. After all, most of these individuals were treated poorly up top, they couldn't blame them for acting such toward those that came from the surface. -- Anon GuestTrade with the civilisations of the Everdark began with the High D'varuv and the Gnomes. They were tunnelers and diggers before they found their way to the 'sun side' of the world. It was with their good repute and some tokens of their favour that got Narhem deeper into the literal underworld.He had to make up a fictitious mistress who had charged him with trades. It was the only way to pass unharmed from the realms of the Stone Elves. He also had to make up a similar, Elven master to pass unharmed from the Deep Dwarves. Narhem had to make notes in his journal as to who his imaginary Master or Mistress were.
It was amazing what the Everdark wanted from the surface. Colourful fabrics and soft things. The Everdark was hard and tough, and made creatures that followed suit. They thusly loved everything soft, delicate, and sweet.
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04842-m093-multi-level-marketing
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Boldly.BlueWelcome to the Borderlands: A Definitive Guide to the New Weird
https://boldly.blue/new-weird-fiction-guide/
A definitive guide to the New Weird — the genre that ate the walls between #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and #horror.
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https://boldly.blue/new-weird-fiction-guide/
A definitive guide to the New Weird — the genre that ate the walls between #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and #horror.
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Welcome to the Borderlands: A Definitive Guide to the New Weird - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author
A definitive guide to the New Weird — the genre that ate the walls between science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Origins in Lovecraft and Machen, the 2003 naming debate, in-depth analysis of Perdido Street Station, Annihilation, Viriconium, and Who Fears Death, author quotes, political dimensions, and eight craft principles for writers entering the territory.
Another eclectic day where I refined the Brick Palace blueprint, reacquainted myself with Trellis House, and finished my examination of the issues plaguing Book-7.
I also wrote a lengthy message to myself in my journal about obsessing over adverbs. Yes, some need removed, but they also help a deep POV flow better.
A deep POV narrative is basically dialogue with the reader.
Be everwell.
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Nothing like an eclectic day after months of editing Book-5.
Yesterday, I setup my journal for April and at last made a diagram of the Brick Palace, which I should’ve done five years ago.
Using the diagram, I’m making fixes to the novella before its targeted edit. What a difference that’ll make, instead of the characters seemingly always in the same room.
I’m already happier.
Be everwell.
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