Worth the Candle: The Exclusionary Principle, 9th Edition has started posting! One exclusion will be posted every day for the next 67 days, starting today with the Publican Exclusion Zone. This was a long-delayed Patreon goal, partly because the final word count has ended up at ~70K words, which I hope you'll agree is very long for a worldbuilding document.
These "chapters" (ea...
2023-05-12 16:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis should be the correct links/text, my tabs got messed up and I pushed the wrong one. Definitely reminiscent of nuking a test database ...
2023-05-10 16:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Perry did, in fact, have questions for Maya, lots of them. He’d tried to be quiet while she told her story, saying ‘uh huhâ...
2023-05-08 18:19:48 +0000 UTC View PostI believe this will be the last "bonus" chapter for a bit, in part because I really do need to get the Worth the Candle exclusion...
2023-05-05 17:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still planning on another bonus Friday chapter, the last of this set, which will bring this set of three to a close.
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2023-05-03 15:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
My first world, my home world, I’m not going to tell you about. It’s painfully boring, and kind of personal, so we’re ski...
2023-05-01 17:44:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis is another bonus chapter, putting Early Birds four chapters ahead of RoyalRoad readers. Enjoy!
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Three days c...
2023-04-28 16:48:30 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Maya came to his room with him, which Perry wasn’t entirely thrilled with. He was, after all, still naked and trying not to f...
2023-04-26 17:36:39 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Perry wasn’t entirely sure of the nomenclature. The first sphere members of the temple were students, disciples, or possibly ...
2023-04-24 18:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostPlease note: This is a bonus chapter which puts Early Birds three chapters ahead. The intent is that this will be permanently mov...
2023-04-21 16:42:40 +0000 UTC View PostSchedule Note: Due to a large backlog, there will be a bonus chapter on Friday, which will permanently put Early Birds three chapters ahea...
2023-04-19 16:02:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs alluded to in the title of this post, TUTBAD is going on a temporary hiatus, probably just a week or two, with Thresholder having chapt...
2023-04-18 21:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostI am still in Washington D.C., so will be a little slow on typo corrections and such. Thanks for reading!
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“Who is this?...
2023-04-12 13:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostI'm on vacation this week, there shouldn't be schedule disruptions at all, but if the times are even more wonky than normal, that's why. (...
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Luo Yanhua was treating him like a child. Worse, she was treating him like a child she was uninterested in, some brat kid her mother had to...
2023-04-05 16:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostAnother late-in-the-day chapter. Technically, chapters are "Monday", but ideally I would want them to consistently come out at the same ti...
2023-04-04 03:50:44 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I totally meant to put this at the end of last chapter, but yes, this world is something approaching xianxia, which I'...
2023-03-29 16:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the later chapter today, I got way ahead on Thresholder and had done less work on Dungeons than initially thou...
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The first thing that Perry noticed about the new world was just how green it was. Teaguewater had been a dingy place, ...
2023-03-22 17:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostAd Read 3 will be posted tomorrow, and can be found after the chapter, if for some reason you want to read an ad accompanying the...
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Flora had stayed up through the night, mostly watching Perry, but also poking around at Marchand.
The technology was so a...
2023-03-15 17:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Mizuki sat on her bed with her hands folded in her lap. She’d said ‘five minutes’ but it felt like she should have said m...
2023-03-14 01:06:12 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delayed chapter, I was sick again this week, but am now back up to about 90% with just a cough and a runny nose to ...
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Alfric had checked the chest over carefully, and satisfied himself that it was probably going to be fine. Entads had a...
2023-03-06 21:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe return of Thresholder! I'm feeling much better, should be on a normal schedule going forward, thanks for the patience.
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It was the...
2023-03-01 19:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostTurns out I got sick with norovirus, which I also had three or four years ago. It was much less bad this time around, but I lost about a d...
2023-02-27 20:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey, sorry, but there won't be a chapter of Thresholder this week. I got what I'm pretty sure was norovirus, and spent an unpleasant ~36 hours that I'm still recovering from.
In its place, here are two chapters from something that I might be writing once other projects have run their course, (WIP title) Of Witches and Wizards.
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Vertex went in first, as they’d discussed the last time, and the Settlers followed after. As before, they had Bib and Pinion ...
2023-02-20 21:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey, sorry for the late chapter, my son had a stomach bug that took up a bunch of my time. I think hands down the worst part of being a parent is deal...
2023-02-16 17:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the relative lateness of the chapter today, I took a trip out of town for my dad's birthday and was much less productive than no...
2023-02-14 01:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post