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Today, while listening to Writing Excuses podcast on style editing, I realized that I tend to remove too much of my voice during the editing process. I took the advice to heart that I was going to want to leave everything in and that I was going to have to be super hard with myself to come out with anything good. Realizing that this was what I tended to do my writing made me stop for a moment though. I know I need a few classes in editing properly, but until I can take those classes, this was excessively useful. It reminds me that my style is what will get readers to stick with me and that by trying to remove my voice from my writing, all I’m really doing is a disservice to myself. By doing that, all I’m telling others and even worse, proving to myself are those dark fears that my style isn’t good enough. Telling myself “I am…” is the fastest way to make it so. Therefore I’m going to stop that immediately, and instead work on a plan to counteract the flaw.
It also reminded me that there are different types of editing, and that until I’m better at editing I may want to take the time to do all three instead of slopping all of them together. It’s something worth thinking about, and something that I think will help my writing immensely as soon as I puzzle out how to do it properly. More on this when I give it a try on my next bit of writing to come out, I’m sure.
I found the time to go see Inception as well, earlier this week, and I must admit that I was impressed. And even though I also gave Sorcerer’s Apprentice a good review, please don’t think that means I give most movies a good review. In general, I’m actually pretty tough on my movies and movies only get a really good rating if they were exceptional. Let me say now, that Inception is.
It’s not just the CG (which is amazing) or the acting (which was emotionally charged), or even the way it left you feeling (incredible and active)… no, what really stood out for me here was the story told and the rules given. You can’t carry a movie on CG or good acting alone… there has to be an engaging story and the movie can’t break the disbelief, otherwise it has failed in its task.
As an example, while I enjoyed the movie “Avatar”, there were a few moments that pulled me away from the movie. Why send in ground troops for an aerial bombing? Why not blast the area from space? Why “Unobtainium” and is that strange metal related to “Atmospherium” of The-Lost-Skeleton-of-Cadavra fame? Why were the aliens humanoid in shape when almost every other native creature had at least 6 limbs (a throwback of genetics, perhaps)? On the other hand, character motivations were good, the acting was good, the new technology succeeded. To quote Howard Taylor (Schlock Mercenary and Writing Excuses podcast) “It was the best ‘Fern Gully’ remake, ever!”
It was good, but it left me with too many bad queries, questioning the science, the intelligence of the enemies or the intelligence of the writers (Open Rant – Unobtainium… I still can’t get over that. Come up with something different. “Garonomium” or “Skotepinium” perhaps. I don’t care if it sounds silly, so long as it’s not an obviously understandable word with the last letter or three taken off and “-ium” tacked on the end – End Rant). Now, following the common book saying that a gun seen in the first act must be used in the second, I’ll compare this to Inception.
The technology in Inception, while not described fully, was good. It had its own jargon, equipment and uses which were explained as they became pertinent to the story. And they did this smoke and mirrors well enough that you don’t even notice it being done. The story is solid and even with the “apprentice” character introductions to what you can do with the technology and the inevitable “working montage”, the story wouldn’t have been complete without it. The characters were intelligent and even the apprentice caught on quickly. I can’t think of an instance where anybody got caught by the same mistake twice. Even the character whose flaws were noticeable compensated for their arrival whenever he could.
The movie didn’t break disbelief fortunately; the scenes looked awesome and were done brilliantly and they were all stitched together seamlessly. The only scene that almost took me out for a moment was a single gunfight near the end of the movie where I thought it was unreasonable and added in simply to hype up the movie goers. Even in that instance, directly after the fight they explained why the scene had been necessary and discussed how they were to deal with the repercussions drawn up from it. I loved the chance The characters all stuck to their motivations and yet, I don’t think any of them were obviously cliché. They looked, acted and felt real because the scriptwriters took the time to make them so and the actors furthered this by truly getting into their roles. Even Leonardo DiCaprio gave a worthy performance!
If you were wondering whether to see this movie, I would suggest doing so. If you only see one movie this summer make it this one.
In other news, I ran into a friend of mine from the Nanowrimo group here in Calgary yesterday (Hey Kai!). I was quite embarrassed since I had convinced her to participate in Julno, and then had done so badly at it myself. I haven’t done an actual count yet, but I think my total in fiction words is sitting at 2 – 5K for the month. Now, I know this happens every year at this time and I had been hoping to break myself out of the rhythm. While I wasn’t able to succeed, this gentle nudge (perhaps more of a trip since she managed to get about 25K and she started on the 16th) from my friend reminded me that I do have control of this, and that while I may like to say “I get Writer’s Block from May to September”, it’s not true. I get a severe case of procrastination and don’t WANT to do anything during this time.
I did manage to come up with a plan to help me out which mainly involves me listening to podcasts designed to kick my butt, get me thinking and therefore writing again. Writing Excuses isn’t quite as good for this (since I’ve listened to every episode 2-3 times now… What can I say… I get very bored at work), so I pulled out the big guns. An old episode of Tee Morris’s Podcast “The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy”, aptly named, “Easy Distrac- – Oh hey, A Butterfly!”. While the podcast is now over, I really enjoyed it and he’s been kind enough to leave up the audio files. This episode details how what I’m doing is definitely procrastination. And while Writing Excuses gets me eager to write, Tee’s way of slapping you in the face and reminding you that if you want to write for a living then you have to consider it a business is exactly what I need right now. Offhand (since I’m being distracted anyway), Tee Morris has the sexiest male voice ever. Give him a listen on Chasing the Bard, a podcast novel by Philippa Ballantine and I promise, if you like sexy voices, you’ll swoon (if you like the ladies, listen for Phillipa herself… Gods that woman’s voice could make me “curious”.)
Oh, I also heard the best quote ever today. “Disneyland is like falling in love, someone’s taking your hand and you go on this enchanting evening and you look into his eyes and its all romantic and nice. Six Flags is like being repeatedly fucked hard over and over again until you just leave shaking and exhausted, but ultimately better for having that experience.” Thank you Alex Day… I think you may have just made mine.
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Very little hilarity happened today, but even so it was a good day. I had the day off work, which meant I got to sleep in, but had enough cleaning and other plans to keep me more than busy enough. We had a friend come over, but most of what I was doing were dull things like laundry. I’m going to be doing quite a lot of gaming this weekend… or at least, at lot of character building. And just to make sure the weekend is awesome I’ll be roughing it somewhat, setting up the tent and camping in our friends yard. The game should be interesting since it’s mainly a pirate game taking place in the Shackles… a hive of pirates run by a man now known as the Hurricane King. My character, Demona, is a brothel owner in the Shackles, and an information broker of no small caliber… or at least that’s the idea.
I’ve decided that she follows, at least nominally, a quartet of Arch-Demons, known as the Whore Queens. Which leads me to my gripe for today’s blog. The book has very little information on these demonic deities and from what I can tell, even the book on demons in that world simply gives the information “the whore queens are believed to be angels who fell hoping to find power and equality in Hell.” Long story short, they didn’t. But each has become powerful and worshiped in her own right, even with the bigoted male demons working against them, which is interesting. It’s not just their fight of do I/don’t I and good/evil, which every demon makes, it’s also the inner conflicts that mirror the ones they are making in their world. How did they gain power and respect? Do the other demons respect them for it after all this time or are they still treated more badly than others?
Since the books are less than useless (and I’m a “couch-feminist” in case you couldn’t already tell), I’ve decided that since the books do give me the names, I’m going to write up a story for each of them, what trials and tribulations they’ve faced, who their allies, enemies and minions are, and finally what their goals and dreams are. It would be nice to know what they require of their followers. They’re Lawful Evil… do they require sacrifices? If they do, are males the preferred offering, since in Heaven and Hell all four were treated as little more than decorative wrapping?
They say when you’re holding a hammer every problem looks like a nail… I’d like to change that slightly. When you’re a writer, you react to every situation by wanting to write about it. To quote Timothy Clarke (writing, in turn, about Lazette Gifford), “I’d be afraid to get between you and a sheet of blank paper if you had a pen in your hand.” Off hand, a fellow Nanowrimo-er re-quoted it at me last November, when I told him that I’d was pushing to get over 80k in the month, and he knew that I’d only written 2k in the first week.
Anyways, so I’m taking on a new writing project as well, in writing up the Whore Queens, to be (hopefully) used as a supplement in our Dungeons and Dragons Pathfinder game. If possible, I’d like to write 5 – 10 pages on each of the four, fleshing them, their religions and their priests out. If any of you have official information on them to help me out, I would really appreciate your help. After all, there’s no point just writing up what I happen to think if it’s going to be completely wrong and thrown out my GM’s window when/if they put out more on it, right?
This does make me stop and wonder why though. Such interesting characters, and they get a few lines in the main Pathfinder book? Even in the Book of the Damned; Princes of Evil, which focuses on the demons/devils/otherworldly evil of the Pathfinder word, a book of over 100 pages, they spend a meager four paragraphs on them, I’m assuming one each (although I don’t own the book yet. Again, if you do, letting me know what the domains of each Whore Queen is would be nice as well).
Do they truly think that nobody will care or have the desire to look into them more? It’s not just a state of the industry in this case, but a state of them deciding that women don’t constitute a large enough share of the “target audience”? Why go to the trouble of mentioning them at all if you don’t plan on expanding on the information? This is my real point of contention. In a novel, you hope to have the entire world planned, and if you are truly blessed you may be able to use 40 – 50% of the history and setting info in your book. You need enough setting to have everyone understand what the setting is, how the world works, but you can’t do so at the expense of the story. If there’s one thing I hate when I’m reading my books, it’s having the author suddenly take five pages to info dump the history of the last war on me.
With a gaming book though, you’re writing it the other way around. You want to include every organization, even rule for how the world works, all of the important people, and a bit of what their plans are. A gaming book is all about making the setting so interesting and well thought out that people won’t want to leave it. Gary Gygax, known as the Father of modern gaming, knew this and his world Living Greyhawk (Known to it’s inhabitants as Oerth) is still being played today, with its adherents who hate the idea of playing in any other world. Ed Greenwood, the creator of the Forgotten Realms setting followed in Gygax’s footsteps, and in my opinion, the Faerun source books are brilliant. More than enough information on everybody who could be important to your game, while leaving more than enough open for the GM’s to make it their own.
Now, I haven’t read the entire Pathfinder book yet, so I’m not going to argue that they haven’t done their work yet. The odds that you can fit everything into a single book is slim when you’re doing world building for a gaming system and as I have noted, Source Books are still being released for the world setting, so it’s not as if they aren’t working to fill in the gaps. I will say that thus far, I am disappointed with the information on such interesting characters and that I hope my additions will be looked at fondly, and leave it at that… for now, at least.
On a final note, I do want to let everyone know that I reserved my hotel room for SiWC later this year in October… I can’t wait to get there!
Tags: Blog, D & D, D&D, Demons, Devils, Dungeons & Dragons, Dwarf, Pathfinder, SIWC, Surrey International Writers Conference, Whore, Whore Queens, Whores, Writing
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Sorry for the very few posts this week. Some killer flu bug knocked me out, although I think it may have just been a continuation of whatever knocked me out last week as well. Regardless, the last five days my schedule has been nothing but sleeping for nearly forteen hours out of every day, working eight and a half hours, and about an hour of travel time. Most days, after four hours of being awake, I felt as if I’d been awake for a full twenty-four hours and wanted nothing more than to sleep again. So, one again, this is a ferfent apology for lack of posts. Next week will be much better (I assume) as today (for the first time in a week) I finally woke up before the alarm went off! Such a little thing to make me so happy, but there you have it. Now, on to more interesting matters!
No matter how ill I am I always listen to Writing Excuses and this week, as usual, was a doozy. Their topic was major overhauls to broken stories and, having done this once before, I found it really informative. A little over a year ago, I had to do a major overhaul on the Memories Written in Moonlight. I had found out that when I wrote it, the brilliant story I had in my head hadn’t translated at all to what was actually on the page. Due mainly to all the writing I’d been doing and all of the insight I’d gotten by listening to Writing Excuses, I was able to tell what I’d messed up and how I could fix it. Realizing that I’d ignored everything in favour of the relationship between the main characters, I decided finally to craft a new plot for the characters, giving them more freedom to advance as characters, defining them better as individuals and placing them in situations that placed them in much more conflict between each other and their surroundings. That story has been turning out much better in the rewrite, and will be worth the point of just editing, and not entirely rewriting it.
Howard Taylor (the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary)from Writing Excuses also made a comment that I think I’ll take to heart and really try to apply in my writing. He suggested a book to us because, as he put it, “It had stand up and cheer moments that were not the epically heroic, lone warrior against a million demons… but moments … that were triumphs of character, moments of courage in the face of small pettiness…” And I think that writers, especially new writers, like myself, really need to remember that sometimes it’s not the regular hero moments that we as readers will cheer for. After all, we see those successes every day in the movies and in the books we read. However, those character moments when your favourite character stands up to a bully and tells him to screw off… you really identify with the character at that moment. It’s that moment of identification that will make readers continue to be sympathetic with your hero long after the moment of victory has taken place. And it’s that sympathy towards the hero that will leave people remembering them long after they’ve put your book down.
In other news, me and a few friends got to head to the theatre today and we got to watch Disney’s new movie, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. I must admit, it’s a good movie and Disney seems to have succeeded finally in a movie kids will like for the explosions and yet a plot and characters set that the adults won’t mind watching. The basic premise (in case you don’t know) is an epic centuries long battle between good and evil wizards culminating in a final battle between the sorcerer told of in prophesy and the head of the evil organization. The world of the sorcerers lies in ours, just hidden through concentrated effort on the side of the good wizards. The movie had an engaging plot, made fun of itself in all the right places, fun characters with generally complete motivations and a great CG budget that didn’t take away from the plot. Some of the decisions were silly or obvious and, of course, the story had its share of shaky science along with a bit of a weak info-dump opening scene, but these didn’t really take away from the movie. There was only one promise that I felt the movie didn’t quite keep at the end, and even then, they kept the promise, just not in a way I thought worked with the plot. Basically, instead of taking something one twist further they stopped and went with the first choice. I put off that minor disappointment to me temporarily forgetting that this was a Disney movie… and that they are not known for taking their twists one step further.
My final assessment though is that this movie is worth the money to go see. It will definitely be entering my video collection when it comes out on video. Especially if you are a fan of Urban Fantasy (meaning modern day mixes of magic and science) this is definitely a movie you’ll be able to appreciate. Oh, Kudos go to Nicholas Cage who plays his part brilliantly and yet, every other character in the movie held their own weight as well. Unlike with The Last Airbender, it was not two actors doing a brilliant job, but everyone coming through with a good performance based on their characters. Hey, that means we actually got a good movie with decent acting… definitely something worth taking a look at, right?
I promise, now that my health is on the uprise, I will have more to discuss with you next week, as well as both the next part of Dual Melodies and a new music review for you to read, to make up for my inability to post things up as often as I would have otherwise enjoyed the last two weeks. See you all then!
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I did this over a year ago now, but when I wrote it, I had hardly a character in mind… something that comes through in the writing, I’m sorry to say. On the other hand, the moment I read it out loud, my mind started turning trying to learn all about who this young daemon was.
Nowadays, I’m still working on the first book with this character, now named Seirei (a Japanese word for ‘ghost’) and I’m about 2/3 of the way through the first draft. I’m hoping to finish the first draft this Julno so that I can start editing and have it ready to show at the SIWC later this year.
Here’s a picture I did of her, once I spent some time figuring out her personality.
Please, let me know what you thought of the writing and, of course, what you think of the art!
Tags: Drawing, julno, Julnowrimo, July Novel Writing Month, Memories Written in Moonlight, Musing About the Words, Novels, Seirei, SIWC, Surrey International Writers Conference, Writing
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Sorry for the lack of posts this week, but my wrist has been in a lot of pain, and I still have to type at work, no matter how bad my wrist gets. To try make up for it (and get more skilled using the program), I’m trying to write this on Dragon NaturallySpeaking. While it is slow, I’m hoping this will help me in trying to get out more writing for you while my wrist is hurting. Now on to more interesting topics… I’ll talk more about the Dragon NaturallySpeaking later.
Today turned out pretty well, I thought, although definitely filled with frustration. For example, my success in (finally) finding out who wrote a quote that I found a few years ago and loved. I found it during my first Nanowrimo as someone’s signature on the site. The quote was “Trying to create a world, even in words, is good occupational therapy for lunatics who think they’re God, and an excellent argument for polytheism.” Today I was reading the “acknowledgements” section in “The Sunrise Lands”, a brilliant novel by S.M. Stirling, when I see this quote. Finding out who said it after all this time is good, but would have been better had I noticed it when I bought the book THREE YEARS BEFORE! **Sigh**
On the other hand, I actually chat with S.M. Stirling on Facebook, so he and I had a great time chatting about it and that really reminds me of just how lucky I am that a great author like him is willing to give me the time of day. Many of the big authors find they either don’t have the time, or perhaps the inclination, to respond to their fans personally… and I can understand why. They have deadlines like everyone else, and theirs may be worse than ours since the work they do is much more difficult… or at least, more difficult compared to most jobs where you know exactly what you’re doing and how to best do it.
Still, it adds a dimension of humanity to authors when you know that you can send them a message and they’ll respond back. It shows us little readers that we are not just dollar signs to our authors but are actually people. Okay, most authors probably don’t look at their readers as dollar signs, but I know that sometimes it can feel that way.
As a definite “ding” I would suggest that if you haven’t checked out S.M. Stirling’s books that you should do so immediately. He allows you to read up to ten chapters online for free. And let me say, very few books match the perfection of his Emberverse series. (It starts with Dies the Fire, check it out, and I guarantee, you’ll be hooked!)
In other thoughts, I’ve been thinking a lot about characters, and in particular, Character Motivations. Most character problems can be solved by thinking about what those persons motivations are. In particular, I remember a few months back when a friend of mine on a chat site I frequent said that she was going to be running a game that afternoon, but she didn’t know where the game was going. I asked her what her storyline was and she said that the party had to defeat an evil wizard who had been locked in a tower for being an evil wizard. There were very few specifics beyond that. Working together, we brainstormed an entire storyline together to take her players to 16th level or higher starting just from the question, “Well, what did the evil wizard do to get him locked up in the tower?”
I think that a lot of new authors (even me, occasionally) forget exactly how important character motivations are in writing as well. With the proper motivation for all of your characters, you’ll know who/what/where/why and how for everyone. For me, this is the keystone behind properly designed fully-fleshed people, rather than simple archetypes in your writing. In general, although out of character stuff can still happen, it’s much more likely you’ll figure out what wrong with a scene early and have ideas on how you can change it for the better!
Now for that quick bit about Dragon NaturallySpeaking… it’s a good program, but so far, training is obviously the key. I need to figure out how to make it note my commands (when I say things like “Question Mark” or “Open Quotation Mark”, it actually writes out said commands) and I’m still teaching it to understand my voice. Apparently the program was smart enough to favour speed over accuracy for me. Not that I talk extremely fast by any stretch, but I’d rather spend the time correcting it and training it in the beginning instead of… talking… like… this… for… the… rest… of… my… writing… career. 
Have any of you used Dragon NaturallySpeaking or a similar program before? Any tips or tricks for a newbie like me on it? What do you think about Character Motivations? Are they the most important or do you scoff at me placing such importance on them? As always, I’d love for you to leave a comment. Also, watch for my writing later tonight. This piece is a short story I did, based off of the anime Spice & Wolf and a single character that eventually became worthy of a full novel (okay… I lied, I have the first novel almost finished and the second one in mind).
P.S. – One final comment… My total for Julno as of yesterday evening was 681 words. It sucks, I know, but I’m hoping to get a bit more writing done this weekend. If I could count my blog posts I’d be higher… probably up around 2-3K. Anyway, let me know what your total is for the month, and I’ll keep you updated with mine!
Tags: Blog, character motivations, Dies the Fire, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Emberverse, julno, Julnowrimo, July Novel Writing Month, motivation, Nanowrimo, Novels, Polytheism, S.M. Stirling, SM Stirling, Spice & Wolf, The Sunrise Lands, wrist pain, Writing
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Well, I’m back after way too long an absence. It’s been nearly a week after all. I only got one post up and no writing up this week either. I do apologize. I was supposed to have more time than I ended up finding. On the other hand, it turned out to be an odd week all around, so perhaps it’s just par for the course.
Unfortunately, I found out that the weekend long game that I mentioned previously had been cancelled. So my weekend plans died, to be replaced by other more regular plans, although still busy enough that every day had something (for instance, Saturday officially became “recover/sleep day” from the party the night before). Speaking of which, on Thursday my husband and I went to see The Last Airbender.
It was a really fun movie and I’d suggest going to see it. However, I do suggest that you go in with low expectations. Expect a great action movie, with wonderful element-bending effects, but don’t expect much else. The acting was terrible (generally, at least. Assif Mondi did a great job as a villian, and the woman who played Princess Yue was exceptional. Uncle Iro was great, although true to the original he was not, and yet his character motivations were definitely still in place.) The story, unfortunately, turned into one big info dump and Aang decided that scaring an army without ever hurting a man, was the best way to deal with them… ‘cause you know, when army men get scared they always turn tail and run away instead of desperately attacking the thing that threatened them. I’d actually suggest watching the cartoon instead. It was much better in the places that mattered like plot and story, even if it wasn’t so cool in the “3-D/live-action” end of it.
Other than the movie though (and a new book I’m reading… don’t worry I’ll be posting a review of it next week), all I’ve been doing is gaming recently.
Alehandra, my priestess/summoner(also known as the Scourge of Lirr), has been saving people left/right and centre and had to make one of the harder decisions she’s had to make in a while. We found a torturer and one of his victims… not a pretty site, especially since the girl was still alive. Alehandra realized that she couldn’t save the woman, so she killed her out of mercy. The men in the group had tried taking on the guy, but were getting their asses whooped… and even when that’s due to insane roles on the GM’s part, it’s scary. Knowing that my character could die, especially if this guy was higher level than us, I decided that Alehandra still would insist that this evil man had to die. So, my character healed up the party and started the attack against him again. By a wonder we succeeded! My character is so energized about it. Now if we can just get these rescued people out of here, we’ll have it made.
Talia, the kick-ass swords-genasi-woman, has a just found out about a meeting arranged with her superior at work. She’s busy wondering what she could have done wrong lately, though it’s more likely that they’ll be commending her on getting Dremere to turn himself in and getting him to join the watch than wanting to punish her for something… maybe another job that they’re having trouble with? Also, her date with a Dwarven priest has been postponed, which means she may end up choosing Dremere accidently, even if as a guy he’s all wrong for her. Mind you, the dwarf did mention that it was clan matters calling him back… I’d hate to not give him a fair chance due to family concerns.
Rapture, the cheerleader sorceress, may be having the “it’s not you, it’s me” talk with her boyfriend… which is surprising in that it’s not Rapture dumping him, but him dumping her. Not that this relationship has been a match made in heaven by any means. He got out of a bad relationship about a year ago, and hasn’t really gotten on well since. And right now, Rapture seems pretty damned perfect since she’s a nympho who he can actually talk to about metaphysical stuff. The real problem is that his old fiancé is still holding a torch for him and trying to ruin the relationship. She’s smearing Rapture’s reputation by calling her a whore, and her boyfriend just made the situation worse by getting drunk and “buying” her away from her boss for an evening. On the other hand, I suppose she has just cause. Not only did Rapture steal her guy, but she also smashed the girl verbally at a party, before she knew who she was. In fact, if memory serves me, she told the girl that while Rapture’s dress may have been bought by her boyfriend, that at least she hadn’t needed her father to buy her a date. Yeah… A great smack-down, considering I had no idea who she was at the time. **Sigh** Good times, good times.
I don’t have my new brothel owner finished yet, but as I won’t get a chance to play her for a few more weeks, I can work on finishing it.
I will be putting a few of the pictures I’ve drawn up soon… I do give everybody some warning though. I’m only a hobby artist at the best of times. On the writing front, I am doing Julnowrimo, but as of Day Three, I hadn’t gotten a chance to do any writing yet. Not that I expected much more, since I knew that this week was going to be insane. I can’t wait to start writing tomorrow though… hopefully some before my game (yes, more D&D. This time I’m playing a catgirl Battle Dancer named Mmrumbra or ‘Rum for short) and definitely some afterwards!
Tags: Art, Avatar, Battle Dancer, Blog, D & D, D&D, Drawing, Dual Melodies, Dungeons & Dragons, Dwarf, julno, Julnowrimo, July Novel Writing Month, Lirr, Novels, The Last Airbender
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