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This is a forest of ideas which I hope will form cohesion into a solid story one of these days.
I have a first draft fully written, the skeleton of a second book plotted out, and enough world-building to inform the cleanup of both.
This world involves many of the aesthetic elements I love most in fiction, and this first duology carries a theme near and dear to my heart.
The aesthetics involve:
- Sky ships and floating islands
- Magic crystals
- All sorts of non-humans as protagonists
The theme, meanwhile, has much to do with the tempting gilded cage of escapism, overwhelming guilt for things you had no control over, and finding the resolve to keep walking on despite it all.
I hope to post these stories chapter by chapter as I clean my first draft up into a more coherent second. There will be illustrations to go along with the chapters, and I may even post scans of some of the original pages of the first draft. It was all written within a single notebook by hand, and is a mess. But it is my mess, and I love it dearly.
Someday, in the perhaps far distant future, a polished third draft may be published. But that is the stuff of dreams and myth as of now, so we shall have to wait and see.
I hope you will join me for a time, here in the forest.
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Current Projects
- We Are The Universe Dreaming 19324 words of 2nd draft in progress / 1st draft complete(only in notebook form)
- We Are The Universe Dreaming artwork can be found here under "#watud".
This is the story of Theia, a gnomish baker who's most remarkable trait is her dedication to the dream journals she's kept up ever since childhood. She has spent her entire life living in the rooter slums of the island rings of Zaatar - a floating city that drifts some 2000 feet over the Baertan Sea. She has never expected her life to take her anywhere else. But when a family she has long considered her own is threatened by those in control of Zaatar, she must find the courage to step outside of routine and common sense, and lean into the unknown.
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