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Writing Updates

Writing Resources For my fantasy novel project, I looked into World Anvil this week, which is for worldbuilding for DMs and novelists, but also has some cool features for developing characters and, apparently, a way to promote your work. Before I can get too deep into it, I have to hunker down and design a map of this world that has been in my head for literal decades. I can’t draw worth much,…

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Fic-dates

A few years back, before I started So I May Slay Wild Beasts, I started a Hunger Games fanfic focusing on Portia, who is a character I feel really drawn to, for some reason. I thought it would be interesting to start from the Peeta’s Games version of Portia, who went to art school with Cinna, and exploring how she ended up pairing with him, what their relationship was really like and how involved…

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Death of the Character

When I was younger – and my audience was mainly my siblings – killing off characters was kind of a bloodthirsty delight. Yes, I DID want to manipulate my readers’ feelings, thank you very much. This one was a doozy, though – SO hard to write, I’m sure when I go back to edit it I’m going to find it rough and very much in need of editing. On that note: Chapters Eight and Nine of this series have…

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Adventures in AI, part 3

“Gods playing God Games.” I got to give it up to ChatGPT this time. For whatever reason, terrifying or not, this topic is its jam. God playing Populous (pinball version?) God playing Civ V. God has a convenient foot-hand. Hot God playing Sims 3. THEE God playing Sim City.

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Open

This is a painting of a blackbird

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Adventures in AI part 2

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Adventures in AI, part 1

I remain steadfastly nervous and pessimistic about the use of AI, especially in the arts. I’m not convinced you can ever – nor should you ever try to – replace the uniqueness of craft that comes from the complex experiences and viewpoint of the individual. However, I will play around with AI on occasion for generating sketches for practical use – since I can’t really draw myself. For instance, I…

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Halfway point

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cinnabar-and-97591796?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link I’m halfway through draft one of the Cinnabar and Sulfur project, despite a heavy week of work and some persistent migraine-lite headaches. Pretty excited to get through the Games and to Haymitch’s post-arena life (with some fun surprises coming…

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Storytalking

Cinnabar and Sulfur: As some of you know, this is the draft title of my new fanfic. It refers to this short essay (https://www.patreon.com/posts/cinnabar-and-82032924) I wrote on The Hunger Games in response to John Grainger’s essay, Unlocking Mockingjay: The Literary Alchemy https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/unlocking-mockingjay-the-literary-alchemy/, part of a series of excellent essays he…

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MASH art! ❤️

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Happy New Year!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cinnabar-and-95701507?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Over on Patreon, I’m continuing to work on my new fanfic, available to members in draft form, then later will publish on AO3 and FF. It looks like it’s going to be a four-book story. Here’s a preview in the form of my working outline for part…

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December Updates

I’ve been busy over on Patreon. I finished uploading my old Tumblr THG essays and gathered them into a collection: https://www.patreon.com/collection/269591?view=condensed These are free viewing for everyone. For patrons, I started my next project, which will eventually post on A03, but in draft format is starting on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/collection/261973?view=expanded By way of a…

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OMG I'm back?

Photo by Leeloo Thefirst on Pexels.com Won’t bore everyone with the crazy that has been my life for the past two months, but it involves a book layout/printing project for work and the potential of providing content for my office to a local museum! But I’m finally back to writing (for fun) and hopefully regular blogging. I’ve posted two chapters to That I May Slay Wild Beasts to Fanfiction.net.…

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New patreon post

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mockingjay-notes-91658992?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Mockingjay notes.

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Summer Vacation

Photo by Juan Salamanca on Pexels.com I took an unwitting summer vacation from blogging/writing this July. In part, that was because I took a class at my public pool that was four evenings a week. In larger part, it’s because I’m pushing out an enormous amount of content for my job, which has made writing for fun NOT so fun as it should be. Nevertheless, I did get two chapters of “That I May…

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Happy Friday Updates

https://www.patreon.com/posts/hunter-84635295?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Just a quick writing update for this week. I’ve posted a couple of articles to Patreon. One is the latest of my essays on THG, Mockingjay, specifically. I love that book! I also posted the third, and I think final, teaser for the Peeta’s Games prequel…

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Do you have any plans to update "The Masque"? It has been 84 years....

I had NO idea anyone was actually reading it! I'm afraid the answer might be another three years. I'm planning to ease up my work schedule then and concentrate more on writing. I didn't think the audience was good enough for that one to keep it at the top of the rotation, so it's moved behind a couple of things.