Thresholder, ch 20, The Ten Worlds of Cosme Walsh, pt. 2
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I found myself in a city of glass that hung from immense trees like ornaments, each bulb connected by thin filaments I’d have...
2023-02-08 19:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 167, All-Singing, All-Dancing
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Alfric and Mizuki were being weird around each other, and Isra didn’t like it. It was undercutting every meal they shared tog...
2023-02-06 20:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 19, The Ten Worlds of Cosme Walsh, pt. 1
A somewhat offbeat chapter. I almost think that there should have been more of it, not less, just a straight ten chapters from Cosme's per...
2023-02-01 19:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 166, Collegiate Daydreams, pt 3
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“My god, this tastes like grass,” said Mizuki. “What’s it made from?”
“Would you believe me if I sai...
2023-01-30 21:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 18
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“The werewolves are dead,” said Flora as she came into the apartment.
“Dead?” asked Perry.
“That old man ...
2023-01-25 19:43:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 165, Collegiate Daydreams, pt. 2
Apologies for the lateness of this one, the chapter got away from me and I found myself with a 10K chapter, which this is half of because ...
2023-01-24 03:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 17
Author's Note: There's a possibility that this should have been two chapters, partly because of the word count, partly because of the cont...
2023-01-18 16:59:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 164, Collegiate Daydreams, pt. 1
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The Army Ship and the Jade Staff were both good gets, though the staff was particularly annoying to Mizuki, since its drawbacks...
2023-01-16 20:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 12.5, 16 & 16.5
Thresholder is continuing on from being a Writathon project, at least until the end of the first of three planned worlds, and ideally until the end of three, possibly with more if it's doing well and I'm still having fun with it.
The plan is to have Thresholder on a "always two chapters ahead" model for Patreon, for Early Birds. This isn't how I've normally done things, and the reason is almost entirely "money", largely based on looking at charts and graphs for other a...
2023-01-11 19:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 163, The Sermon
Note: No second chapter of TUTBAD this week, I will be pushing chapters of Thresholder instead, ideally it doesn't replace TUTBAD in that ...
2023-01-09 21:29:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 162, False Starts
Sorry about the recent lateness of the chapters. Officially, the schedule is just for specific days, but I've always tried to hit 10am loc...
2023-01-04 22:42:18 +0000 UTC View PostNew Year's Resolutions
It's a new year! I've been thinking about what I want from writing this year, and here are those thoughts:
This Used to be About Dungeons is in extra innings right now, mostly because I felt like it. There's a strong chance that it drops down to a chapter a week instead of the current two chapters a week. It'll go on for as long as I feel like, essentially, though ideally it would make up another book (400K) or half book (200K). I'm not entirely sure about that though. Ideally ...
2023-01-02 23:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 161, The Empty Dungeon
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Tilde felt like she was finally fitting in, though she was well aware that she’d made a pretty horrible first impression, and...
2023-01-02 23:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 160, Dungeon Wide and Dungeon Vast
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Mizuki stepped through the portal feeling like there was a badger in her guts. It had been a good while since they’d done a d...
2022-12-28 20:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 159, Finding Joy
Note: This was originally going to be a dungeon chapter, but the stuff that was to come before the dungeon ran long, and I really didn't w...
2022-12-26 19:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 158, Performance
Sorry for the one day delay, I was slightly behind because of a longer-than-usual chapter, then decided I was going to take a nap before f...
2022-12-22 16:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 157, Cool Cave
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The mouth of the cave was almost wide enough that they could have maneuvered the house into it, but it narrowed quickly. Alfric...
2022-12-19 18:40:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 156, Searching
Apologies for the chapter being a day late. We had a big snow storm here, which meant a snow day, which meant that writing got slowed down...
2022-12-15 14:48:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 155, Wanderings
This is, I think, an extra final "arc" to This Used to be About Dungeons above and beyond what I had planned for, in part because...
2022-12-13 01:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 154, Roads Go Ever On
Author's Note: I think that this is the last chapter of "Book 2" of TUTBAD ... but I think I have one more arc in me. TUTBAD currently sit...
2022-12-07 19:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 153, Setting Records
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Verity’s trips to Dondrian for the concerts had been times of incredible stress, not least because she always felt like she w...
2022-12-05 21:26:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 152, First Steps
Apologies for the lack of promptness for chapters lately, I've been a little fried, mostly because of sickness repeatedly hitting our hous...
2022-11-30 17:34:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 151, The Rayedhcraft School
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A few days passed.
Mizuki was thankful that she wasn’t bound to secrecy anymore, and talked all about their adventure t...
2022-11-29 02:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 150, Wild
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Verity didn’t particularly like the Wildlands. They made her nervous. By contrast, Mizuki seemed to enjoy them enormously,
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 149, Diplomat
Dealing with a sick kid right now, Thresholder 2022-11-21 16:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 148, Bellies
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“It’s kind of a relief, in a way, because one way or another it’ll be over,” said Mizuki.
“I don’t find that ...
2022-11-16 18:19:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 147, Making Moves
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Five days passed. It felt like an eternity. They were too cooped up, and in a way, Mizuki felt like she was the most cooped of ...
2022-11-14 20:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 146, Meetings
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“You need to be more circumspect,” Ria told Verity. “Cagey with what you know, and how you know it. You came back the las...
2022-11-09 18:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 145, Allies
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Alfric didn’t particularly like how they were doing things. They were running into classic chrononaut problems, largely relat...
2022-11-07 20:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder: National Novel Writing Month 2022
This is Perry's third world, or fourth if you count Earth. In the first, there was Richter, a brilliant scientist who gave Perry a working suit of power armor before dying to an attack by an adversary that seemed to come from nowhere. In the second world, he became a knight fighting in a war against a callous enemy. There are others like him, thresholders, always in opposition, and it's becoming clear to Perry that this is going to be his way of life, hopping from world to world. Now he f...
2022-11-02 16:45:19 +0000 UTC View Post