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August 29, 2016
Chapter 9, and Hold on to the Old
(Image: Chapter 9, Pelanca City) Chapter 9 is now up and ready to read. Bennie finally gets to see Pelanca and so do you, via both her description and the chapter picture above. There's so much I love in this chapter: inside jokes, a first glimpse of a character, and so much of my 8-year-old self's imagination.This is the first chapter picture of a small few that I did not redo for the relaunch. I like the original too much. I drew it across three sheets of computer paper (I'm so high-t...
August 22, 2016
Chapter 8, fanfiction, and facing your fears
(Image: Chapter 8, Gregk the Demon) , It always amazes me how quickly this arc in Bennie's story goes, because when I first began writing the book, it took me ten months to get her from going through the trauma of seeing/fighting the demon to facing her fears over him. That's what happens when you're writing a novel at the same time you're writing fanfiction, andin high school. That is, in fact, why I gave up fanfiction. I knew as long as I wrote fanfiction my own work would suffer.It's...
August 15, 2016
Chapter Seven, and Catharsis
(Image: Chapter 7, Bennie's desk with several scribbled out sketches piled on top.) I'm watchingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanright now, while I type up this blog and prep the new chapter on Wattpad for release. Funny bit of trivia: I started writing theGuardianstrilogy the same summer that movie came out. I still need to share the origin story with y'all, but I already know what chapter I want to use that blog post for!Watching these films can be a bit cathartic for me. I don...
August 8, 2016
Chapter Six, Dealing with the hard parts of life
Image: Chapter 6, The moonstone necklace Aila gave Bennie. This chapter is actually a combination of two chapters from the previous edition. Several people told me they like longer chapters, so to make things less choppy I did what I could. While some of the writing and a lot of detail changed in this portion, the point remained unchanged; it’s an important one:While Bennie’s condition in the story is supernatural in nature, the concept stems from an actual medical issue I’ve seen in re...
August 1, 2016
Chapter 5, the plot thickens
(Image: Bennie's first look at enemy forces, waiting under a street light.) Oh Bennie, you're in for it now!The horrific failure of the chapter image notwithstanding (I despised the original sketch too. One day I'll get the concept down on paper--computer--whatever!), this is one of my favorite chapters since the rewrite. In the first edition it began Bennie's real experiences discovering just how dark and uncertain the world she lives in is, but this time around I used it to better fit...
July 29, 2016
In loving memory of Jerry Doyle
So for those of you who don't know, my favorite TV show of all time is a sci-fi from the 90's called Babylon 5. I was introduced to it nearly ten years after it completed its run by a high school classmate, and while its presentation is certainly dated (you can tell it came from the 90's, which actually makes me like it all the more), its storylines and life lessons are timeless.
All the characters and actors in the show were unique and brilliant in their own ways, but today I want to talk a l...
All the characters and actors in the show were unique and brilliant in their own ways, but today I want to talk a l...
July 25, 2016
Chapter 4, and San Antonio
(Image: Chapter 4, Bennie's hand with a small flame in her palm) Chapter 4 is now online!Forgive me if there's glitches and errors in the chapter or this post; I just got back from a long weekend and a VERY long drive and I'm exhausted. I went to San Antonio to check on my grandmother and see some friends before I start a new job next week.
I guess, given the fact Shadowchildis set in San Antonio, it's an easy guess to tell I grew up there. My family moved from Seattle to San Antonio whe...
July 21, 2016
No Tumblr for me!
FYI for anyone paying attention, I won't be updating the chapters via Tumblr. The site's not what it was when I joined in 2012 (and it wasn't much of a site even then), so I'm getting off for good. But no worries; I'm still online everywhere else.
July 18, 2016
Chapter 3 and a Book Review!
(Image: Chapter 3, Classmates and Night Names, Sean in Gargoyle form sitting on the roof) 
(Image: Book Cover:Liesby Oliver Dahl. Source: Amazon.com) Welcome back, and for those of you just finding your way here, welcome! Chapter three is officially up and running on Wattpad and Tumblr. We finally get to meet some other Guardians in this chapter, the last two of the “Core Four” as I call them. These were the characters the story formed with.
It occurs to me now that the...
July 11, 2016
Chapter 2, and the concept of accidental procrastination
(Image: Chapter 2, The Guardians of the Light: A crowd of grey-eyed men and women, including Bennie's father.) Welcome back for Chapter Two! And if you’re just joining, welcome! It’s still a ghost town around here so I feel like I’m talking to myself. If you’re reading or even just snooping, feel free to drop in and say hi! You never know who else is lurking, waiting for someone to start a conversation.This chapter, like the first, underwent considerable changes before the relaunch, pri...
