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Progress – 02/27/17

Fiction words written last week: 3,205 words

Blogs/Newsletter articles written:  791 words

Writing month to date total: 23,310 words.

Writing year to date total: 45,467 words.

Drawing/painting last week: 0 square inches painted.

Illustration year to date total: 131.25 square inches.

Audio: I spent 7.5 hours on editing  and recording audio. This didn’t include time that I spent with some experiments I ran this week — I’m psychotically trying to get a better, cleaner sound so that I spend less...

ACEO of the Week – 02/25/17

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2014-39
3.5″ x 2.5″
acrylic on Bristol Board
©2014 Dawn Blair
SOLD

I love this little castle on the hillside. It’s one of those paintings that turned out different than I initially thought it would be. I knew there was something against the mountains, but I didn’t know what when I started. Imagine my surprise?

Someone already owns this one, so you’ll have to go here to see what adventure could become yours.

History of a Dead Man – excerpt

Until recently, I thought I would publish History of a Dead Man in with the 4th Sacred Knight novel. Imagine my surprise when one morning I woke up with a little voice telling me that I had to release it as its own novella? After all, why not? I am releasing a lot of short stories and novellas on their own right now. Why withhold the print edition of History of a Dead Man?

I couldn’t find a reason.

So what is History of a Dead Man? It’s a side story to the life of Saint Steigan and is meant t...

Progress – 02/20/17

Fiction words written last week: 7,883 words

Blogs/Newsletter articles written:  985 words

Writing month to date total: 19,341 words.

Writing year to date total: 41,471 words.

Drawing/painting last week: 0 square inches painted.

Illustration year to date total: 131.25 square inches.

Audio: I spent 6 hours on editing  and recording audio.

Week’s happenings: I feel like I’m just about back on my game. I started my read-through of the 4th Sacred Knight book. I actually made headway this week, un...

ACEO of the Week – 02/18/17

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Magical Landscape 2017-6
3.5″ x 2.5″ acrylic on Bristol Board
©2017 Dawn Blair
For Sale

I actually got the idea for this ACEO (and another one I will list here soon) when I was playing around with PicsArt — a picture app for your phone. I’d taken a couple pictures of some of my ACEO’s and was toying around with the app. Suddenly this very cool image appeared and I went, “Mine, mine, mine!” It’s kind of cool to see what inspires a creative direction, I think.

This ACEO is for sale.

The Doorway Prince – excerpt

Tomorrow I release my newest novella, The Doorway Prince, to the world. Today, my lucky readers, you get an excerpt from the story to whet your whistle.

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The Doorway Prince

 A faint, damp smell of rain came through the open window, making Eclipse look up from his desk. The sun still shone brightly in the sky, but he saw the droplets falling outside and could just barely make out the edges of a gray cloud which must be situated above the castle. The large leaves of the trees several yards fr...

Tick-Tock Tuesday!

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Good day and welcome to a special Valentine’s Day edition of TIck-Tock Tuesday.

I’m offering 14% in my Zibbet store today. Use coupon code TTHEARTS to get the discount and get something for someone you love. Or use it to get something you want. Self-love is valid and you should never be ashamed to treat yourself. Being single and happy myself, I can say that.

Enter the Novihomidraks!

I currently released a short story in electronic and audio formats. It’s called Fractured Echo.

I wrote Fractured Echoentirely in the dark, as Dean Wesley Smith talks about. I tried his looping technique. Honestly, I still went back through and had to do a re-read of the entire thing. I “edit” like I normally do; by this I mean that I fix things that don’t make sense to me or are weird. There are just some sentences that I can feel aren’t complete. I make them deeper. I’m sure Dean does this...

Writing an Adventure For Yourself

I was going on a point in my last Thursday’s blog that I have never been afraid to throw out several chapters of a story that wasn’t working when I got sidetracked by another thought and went with it instead, but I wanted to come back to that.

I know Dean Wesley Smith would bite his tongue while thinking that I was a stupid writer if he heard me say that. He’d fix forward and not waste the words he’d written. Time is words written, and that is product being produced, which is something he can...

Rewriting a Life

I’ve been following Dean Wesley Smith lately. I swear he’s the writer that I always imagined I would become. In seeing what he’s done, I find myself getting angry with myself (after a taste of jealousy) at having gotten off track. Where did I go so wrong?

Okay, I do know the answer to that. I let my dreams get derailed by a desire for a “normal” life as a wife and a mother. That put me in a bad situation, one where I had to enjoy the rat race while continuing my dreams on the sidelines. I jus...