Chapter Six: Hordin House. First off all, yes, I’ve been reading a lot of Lovecraft and R. E. Howard. How’d you guess? This chapter is a bit of homage more to Lovecraft than Howard, granted, but I think there is more room in Tijervyn for the unthinkable and eldritch than for barbarians. It is also [...]

It’s time to toss the dice ‘cause Winter is coming and I’m all out of bubblegum.  If it is one thing and author dreams about, it is coming up with a memorable catch phrase that isn’t corny.  But that last bit is the trick, see.  I could come up with ten million one-liners or “powerful [...]

I have this nagging sense that I’ve kibitz about this before, but a quick glance over my saved blogs (dear lord they are starting to pile up) say I haven’t, so here I go.  Authorial Fait: when the author makes something happen because they just wanted it to happen, not because it makes plot or [...]

Ya know, stress is one of those things that just annoys me.  Of course, I’d imagine that would make the personification of stress rather happy, but still.  It ranks right up there to me with regret on the annoyance scale though because, honestly, it doesn’t help a single thing, but it can come from so [...]

Sometimes, it is just easier to lie.  Sometimes, it is even the best option.  Sometimes a lie protects those you love, or is the only sane way out of a situation.  There are lots of reasons—good and bad—to lie, and I know a good number of them, having been on one side or the other [...]