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Blogging Collab

Hiya folks! Faith from The Writer's Song here today to rank all the ships from the My Time in Amar series (and also the spinoff series, Return to Amar.)

(A note from Nicki: please remember that this is all Faith's opinion not my own and also all images are from Pinterest)
LAST PLACE: PHELSEALook, I don't mind Philip as a character. He's a sweetie with enough honor to fuel a spaceship, and he deserves waaaaaay more appreciation than the fanbase gives him. But letting him get...

Welcome to 2020

I'm sure some of you are wondering what the deal with the starry background is, and that may or may not be that my mind has moved from fantasy worlds to space for the time being, but I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations. And this all certainly has nothing to do with the Mandalorian or X-Files being in my life.
But anyway happy 2020 everyone! I remember 2019 like it was just yesterday y'all.
Life:
Honestly, survival would be nice. Somehow everything piled up and now I am having oral...

2019 Wrap-Up

Hey guys, I just have a quick question for you. And that would be, WHERE THE FLIP DID 2019 GO????

I mean I know that stuff happened, and months passed. But a whole year? No, no, because I distinctly recall it was just 2018 it cannot possibly be 2020 already. I cannot possibly be mere months away from turning twenty, I mean... I'm not old enough to be twenty.

Okay so I guess since we are apparently going with the ruse that it has in fact been a whole year and we are in fact in 2020 already I...

The Question of Dust and Fate//Meet My Cast

So this week has been crazy busy what work and the upcoming holidays and having to work with the upcoming holidays. I considered not even doing a blog post this week, but I promised you an introduction into my characters from my newest WIP The Question of Dust and Fate and so that is what you will get.

As always the pictures are absolutely not mine, all credit to their original creators and Pinterest.

So like, technically I have two casts, and it is complicated. So I guess I will break them up...

Post NaNo Writing Updates

So... November is past. We survived NaNo!!! Well most of us... *cheers from the ditch that I landed in after falling off the NaNo bandwagon*

And now with the writing craze past, that leaves the question... what next? With this year wrapping up and a new one looming threateningly on the horizon, I've had to look more closely at my writing goals and schedules. And yes I have changed some of my purported publishing dates to far more realistic and less stress inducing ones. And so without further...

The Shared WIP Tag Week Five: Snippets

So NaNo is almost over and I will admit that I definitely petered out. Actually I didn't even start strong. A word of advice. Don't spend the months leading up to NaNo speed writing a 150k long book. You will murder your brain faster than any of the fancy villains in the books you are writing can. But oh well, I may not have written much on my projects but I had fun and it was the break my brain needed.
Anyway, NaNo progress report:
Project: Darkness From the StarsTotal word count for NaNo:...

The Shared WIP Tag Week Four: Side Characters// in which I have too many of them and love them more than I should

So I have to admit that I am pretty excited for this week's topic. Because if you guys know anything about me it is that I love side characters too much. It's a problem because I tend to spend more time on them than even my own main characters and end up writing six spin offs about them XD But anyway today we are focusing on the side characters in DFTS and... well I have a lot. Because this book is sort of a family drama a lot of them are related.

-If you had to go on a mission with any of...

The Shared WIP Tag Week 3: Main Character and Antagonist// There has been a change of plans

Okay so a lot happened over the course of a week. As I'm sure you all saw in my last post, I finished SoS, and I was extremely tired afterwards so that feat didn't exactly get the amount of screaming, freaking out, and flailing that it deserved. As I took the weekend off to rest so that I will be ready to start MoC on Monday I realized something. I wasn't actually excited for this story. I then realized that I was pushing myself too hard. First to finish ToT, then to finish SoS, and then MoC,...

The Shared WIP Tag Week Two: Worldbuilding

My apologies, I realize that this is a day late, I was working on finishing SoS and well basically the real world faded into the background. But I'm back. SoS is done *takes a moment to scream shrilly* and now it is time to actually focus on MoC, and like, actually write it? XD

So anyway I come to you again with the slightly late regularly scheduled shared WIP tag. This week the topic is wor...

The Shared WIP Tag Week One: Intro

Hey guys, can you believe that it is November already? *cue much freaking out from me as well as other authors* NaNo is upon us!

As I didn't actually manage to finish SoS last month-not that I didn't try my jolly hardest, but some idiot decided to make that book super long, when I get my hands on them...- I will actually be working on two books for at least the beginning of NaNo. The first being of course finally finishing that blasted book SoS.
But the second, and also my main project is...
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