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Enjoy!
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Mom led me to a prominent table at the exhortation of the Mayor’s Wife, Bronwyn. Samara and Summer went to the buffet tables. Summer got her plate, while Samara grabbed three, getting one for mom, myself, and her. I tried to go help, but all three of my family members told me to sit down. “Okay,” I said, then took a deep breath. I felt like everyone was looking at me.
Mom deliberately sat me down in the middle of...
2022-03-10 04:11:01 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to everyone whose voted in the poll I posted! I'm going to leave it up for another day or two, but it's looking like the yanyuedao is going to win. For everyone who voted something else, especially those who wanted something more esoteric, I'll definitely work someone in that uses those weapons. The Stormy Mountain Sect is fairly eclectic in its weapon usage, after all. Also, he'll be getting a second weapon as a gift from the town itself/a friendly smith th...
2022-03-07 04:47:27 +0000 UTC
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In the third chapter, Marc will inherit a weapon from his father. What should he get?
2022-03-04 20:13:29 +0000 UTC
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This story will be Patreon only for a while. I'm only writing it in tiny chunks, so there won't be many chapters coming quickly, but no one not a Patreon will get to read it at all. Additionally, there will be occasional polls where I ask you all something. One will pop up shortly.
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The sky was only hinting at the coming sunrise when I left our house to start on my chores. Two buckets of slop dumped into the pig trough, chicke...
2022-03-04 20:09:51 +0000 UTC
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Sorry this was late. I got a massive migraine on Wednesday, and then last night got caught up in a few things. I hope you enjoy this!
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Once finished, they continued to move along the game trail they’d been following, still heading north by north east. David thought they’d covered another kilometer from the battle site when a loud huff sounded from beside him. He looked to the side and leapt backwards in fear when a huge an...
2022-03-04 18:24:14 +0000 UTC
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So, I've written 1.5 chapters in a new story that will eventually show up here. Mostly I've been working on it because I couldn't get it out of my head. I still was able to complete chapter 15 of Legacy and 20 of Essence Wave, so progress on my main stories is progressing (he,he). Right now, my plan for what is tentatively called Stormy Mountain Sect is to write as I can, only once I've gotten a decent bit on Legacy and Essence Wave completed. Once I've got a bunch...
2022-02-28 05:03:15 +0000 UTC
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Happy Wednesday! Hope your week’s going great!
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Liz took another half hour to finish harvesting the fruit. Thankfully, nothing else interfered. She carefully moved downstream a few meters and planted one, the dirt parting with a gesture. Green and brown Mana flowed from her hands into the fruit and ground around it. A few seconds later, a tiny sprout of the vine popped out of the ground, the fruit shrinking as the nutri...
2022-02-24 04:34:58 +0000 UTC
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Two chapters this week. Might have been three, but I concussed myself on Wednesday. Always watch where y'all're sitting folks.
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I followed the bite, from the actions required to chew it up to the Aether that flowed down my esophagus before it entered my digestion meridian. The Light Aether, glowing brightly in my internal sight, burned everything it touched. My meridian flexed in agony, and I found myself collapsing onto my si...
2022-02-21 04:42:20 +0000 UTC
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I need to do a bunch more on this one. I want to extend the fight another 500-1000 words. Key part that is added is going to be Aiden missing the Beast with a Wrath of the Plasma Herald, shooting a beam of plasma into the sky as a beacon.
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I gestured for everyone to move backwards and spread out. Immediately, Vaya, Bridget, Lampart, and Zimnodlot vanished from my Aether senses. I pulled in my aura tighter, trying to limit what ...
2022-02-07 04:21:50 +0000 UTC
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Here’s a Wednesday chapter on Wednesday!
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Soon thereafter, Ben was able to successfully Imbue the trigger. Ben and Jamie spent the next hour working their way up to Beginner Fireball Traps. Ben’s first creation worked successfully and had a level of seventeen, showing how effective he was at creating it, while Jamie managed to blow only one up.
David blew up seven, but he was trying to figure out exactly how much Mana ...
2022-02-03 06:00:19 +0000 UTC
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So, okay progress this week. Finished a chapter for both Essence Wave and Legacy, so expect another chapter on Wednesday.
My speed still isn't what I want it to be to write two books simultaneously, so I'm going to start focusing a bit more on Essence Wave 2. My current thought is to write two chapters of it and one of Legacy. I'll do my best to keep ahead enough that I can keep posting one and one and just build a backlog of Essence Wave, but no guaran...
2022-01-31 04:05:53 +0000 UTC
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So, decent week, hence two chapters today, but most of the writing happened today, hence why only posting both today. Hopefully next week is better. I'm down to 3 chapters (including both stories) of backlog, so there should be two chapters next week but that is not certain.
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“Has anyone heard from Clancy or Dylan this afternoon?” David asked his advisory council after dinner. They’d gathered together to discuss plans fo...
2022-01-24 04:20:21 +0000 UTC
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Another chapter in 2 mins
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When I woke, I felt light. The pain and exhaustion was but a distant memory. I was about to sit up when I realized there was pressure on my stomach and legs. My head lifted up, and I snorted. Vaya’s head was on my stomach, using me as a pillow, while Lampart was laying across my legs like the giant cat she was. Heh, guess I’m not getting up for a bit, I laughed in my head.
“Finally...
2022-01-24 04:17:53 +0000 UTC
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So, my office has been down for the count for the entire week. We had to caulk the concrete patches put in to support our foundation, which was sinking, and the smell of the caulk caused instant migraines for me. That plus a bunch of other stuff means I’m posting this with the iPad app. It’s not great, even worse than standard Patreon is for accessing stuff. I’ve seen a lot of y’all’s comments and suggestions, and I will try to get a response to y’all ...
2022-01-17 04:50:15 +0000 UTC
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So, this week was horrible. Lots of stress at home and at work, combined with multiple migraines and a bad few days of depression, let me with only about 2k total words (so far, gonna get some more tonight I hope). it also made me completely forget that I was going to post on Wednesday. So here’s post one of two today. the other will come at the more normal time.
Sorry again y’all.
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A voice rang out, “You have found ...
2022-01-16 22:33:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all, sorry about the late post on Friday, and not having an author's note. I left a comment on it, but I wasn't super happy with the description of the history, so minor changes are occurring. Basically, the Chaos Beasts only show up once, and I'll add one or two more battle scenes to the descriptions afterwards. The first war will be described as between the elves, the lamia, and a race of harpies. The summoning of the Chaos Beasts will have a lamia and a ha...
2022-01-10 04:13:59 +0000 UTC
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“That fried Fuzhu ready yet?” Vaya asked Jon, who was poking at the aforementioned food cooking merrily on the frying pan.
He carefully spread some spices over it, flipped it, repeated the process on the other side, and then declared, “They are done.” He pulled the pan off the fire and set it on a flat stone Vaya had made for that purpose.
I grabbed my knife and stabbed a piece, putting it onto my plate, after Vaya and Bridget had gotten theirs. “Really guys,” Jon sa...
2022-01-08 00:41:50 +0000 UTC
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I hope everyone had a great new year! I was asleep by 2300, but it was good nonetheless. Two chapters this week, and for a couple weeks past that, since I have a good backlog again. I hope you enjoy!
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David sat in the new rocking recliner chair that’d been left in his room before sinking into his core cave using Inspiring Scholar’s Focus. “Okay,” he told himself. “I really need to get eight Apprentice Skills, so while I wo...
2022-01-03 04:47:40 +0000 UTC
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So far, this week isn't going as well as I wanted, but it's not going horribly either. In 3 days, I've gotten one and a half chapters done, but today was my eldest's 9th birthday, so I only wrote for a couple of hours. Tuesday I spent entirely too long trying to fix a computer issue that didn't really matter. Hopefully I'll get two more chapters done this week. Either way, I hope you enjoy and have a great New Year!
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Walking through...
2021-12-30 05:20:12 +0000 UTC
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So, I got a decent bit done this week, and I have next week off from my day job, so expect a post on Wednesday as well! I hope you all had a merry Christmas and wish everyone a happy New Year!
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Everyone had already paired up and the first group to dump their Energy dropped to their knees. “On the count of three,” David yelled, then counted. On three, he pushed Energy out of his right hand and Mana out of his left, dumping fiftee...
2021-12-27 05:15:58 +0000 UTC
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Decent week, not the greatest. Only one chapter this coming week, what with Christmas stuff messing with my ability to write. Should be back to two after that.
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The next few days passed quickly, gathering and training interspersed with some time to see the city. Since the teams were going to be split up in arrival zones in the Divine Territory, I spent most of the evenings with Jamila. The first night, I went with her and Hanna to a...
2021-12-20 05:02:05 +0000 UTC
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So, a post on Wednesday! Yay. There is a good chance that I will not get enough done to have two posts next week, though I'll try. We had a super bad windstorm today that took down two of my trees and did some other damage that needs addressing. This is on top of having contractors working in my house until 1930 Monday and Tuesday, delaying everything, so I didn't get as much writing done so far this week that I wanted.
Enjoy!
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2021-12-16 04:39:26 +0000 UTC
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Not quite as many words this week as I wanted. Still going to do a Wednesday post (or Thursday, or Friday, you'll get 2 this week :-p ), but this might be the last week for a bit. I'll try to get more done next week, but my office is still a giant mess. At least the work is done, now I just got to clean it and not step in the curing concrete.
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Lindsay met us in the lobby of the inn we’d been staying at for the last month and...
2021-12-13 05:11:58 +0000 UTC
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Someday, I will remember to post the mid-week chapter, but it is not this day! (Insert Aragorn meme). Sorry, y'all, work got stupid busy yesterday, and I got home late. So I forgot to make a post. Here it is! I'll do better next week. I hope.
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Attempting Artificial Skill Merge of Minor Self Healing (U) and Health Regeneration (U). Provide resources and direction to proceed.
The notification forced itself into his vision only a...
2021-12-10 05:08:59 +0000 UTC
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Sorry again for the mistimed post this week. I have chapter 6 done in both novels and chapter 7/part of 8 in Essence Wave, so you'll definitely be getting another post on Wednesday (or as soon as I remember :-p). Not sure how much I'll be getting done this week, though, as we're having a bunch of projects done on our house. I'm taking Friday off anyway, so I hope to keep going with 2 chapters for a while, and my company gives us the 24th through the 3rd off, so I'l...
2021-12-06 05:01:58 +0000 UTC
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I'm SO SORRY I missed posting on Wednesday! Here is the chapter promised. I'll be posting chapter 5 of Legacy of the M'Zee Sunday as normal.
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Night fell over the town, and Aly still wasn’t back. David and Colin stood inside one of the watchtowers, looking out over the plain to the west. “I’m getting really worried,” David told Colin.
“She’ll be fine,” he assured him.
“Wait, what’s that?” David ...
2021-12-03 16:41:29 +0000 UTC
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I have just enrolled Monster Island in the Kindle Unlimited program. Because of this, I'm pulling all of it off Patreon. If you haven't had a chance to download the final pdf yet, it'll be up for another day, and then I have to take it off. After that, send me a message and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks for your support, and look for a new post tomorrow night!
2021-12-01 04:06:41 +0000 UTC
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Aether Gathering tier - Low/High Vapor, Low/High Mist, Low/High Haze, Low/High Fog, Low/High Smoke, Beyond Smoke - Can advance to Condensation from High Fog or higher, higher is better for advancing through and beyond Condensation
Aether Condensation tier - Initial, Foundation, Circulation, Threshold, Complete - Can only advance from Completion
Aether Core tier - Seed Core, Foundation Core, Constructed Core, Completed Core, Perfect Core - advancing to Perfect Core requi...
2021-11-29 17:57:42 +0000 UTC
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Well, so far I'm working ahead much better than I thought I would (though not as fast as I'd hoped). Expect another chapter this Wednesday, and probably the Wednesday afterwards at least. I'm doing my best to try and maintain a pace of 1-1.5k words a day, which gives me two 3k chapters a week. If I can keep that up, y'all will keep getting two chapters a week!
I have codes available for Craesti City's audiobook if y'all want them! Just remember to leave a rev...
2021-11-29 04:34:43 +0000 UTC
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So, I finished chapters 4 for both books and am about halfway through chapter 5 for both, so I decided to reward y'all for sticking with me. For those who left comments on Chapter 3 of Legacy, I didn't incorporate the suggestions yet, they might show up in Chapter 5 or 6, or I'll add them to the rewrite, but I love suggestions!
Chapter 4 of Legacy of the M'Zee will come out Sunday. Enjoy!
In other news, Craesit City's audiobook came out today!
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2021-11-25 03:59:32 +0000 UTC
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