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Nanowrimo 2020 Day 7 - Another Day 6 Favorite Bit

I didn't add any new words today, since I figured I needed a rest day after the nonsense I pulled last night. But I didn't want to leave y'all without any new Match.God content, so here's another favorite bit from yesterday's writing!

“Signora, please! Let me get the door!”

A tittering laugh filled the grand entrance, followed by a deep, melodious voice. “Don’t be silly, darling. I’m perfectly capable of opening my own door.”

If Lindiwe was tall, the w...

Nanowrimo Day 6 - Word Count and Favorite Bit

Today I added 3,965 words to Match.God, making my current total word count 15,218!

“My dears. My darling clients. I’m afraid I’ve kept a secret from you.”

Hannah’s gripped on Lindiwe’s hand tightened as her blood ran cold. No. She hadn’t wanted to be right. Please, if not for her sake, than for Lindiwe and Clara and Vanessa and Lamia! Please don’t let her have actually been right.

“I am no simple matchmaker,” La Signora continued, th...

Nanowrimo 2020 Day 5 - Word Count and Favorite Bit

Today I added 2253 words to Match.God, making my current total word count 11,253!

Hannah poked her head out of her room to see the other girls doing the same. “The hell is that?”

“I don’t know,” Clara admitted. “It doesn’t sound like a doorbell or a phone.”

“Let’s go see what it is!” Vanessa insisted excitedly.

“See, this is what gets people like you murdered in slasher movies,” Lindiwe muttered.

“This isn’t a s...

Nanowrimo 2020 Day 4 - Word Count and Favorite Bit

Today I added 1934 words to Match.God, making my current total word count 9000! 

Despite her distrust of basically everything that was happening, Hannah found herself sleeping far better than she had in months that night. She figured she could chalk it up to exhaustion, but she had to admit that the beds were also extremely comfortable. She was also grateful for the bonus en suite bathroom. She’d shared bathrooms with upwards of ten girls in college, and she was not ke...

Nanowrimo 2020 - Day 3 Word Count and Favorite Bit

Today I added 2,677 words to Match.God, making my current total word count to 7,066! 

Eventually, the car stopped at the top of a large hill. Hannah and Lindiwe stared out of the back windows at the large Baroque mansion. Golden lion statues sat on either side of wide, white stone steps. The large, red-painted double doors opened up as the driver put the car in park, and a reedy, older gentleman in a waistcoat stepped out to greet them.

The next few minu...

Nanowrimo 2020 - Character Introduction: Ha-yun Kim

On Mondays during Nanowrimo this year, I decided to introduce each of my main characters with a lovely reference image and a little character profile! Starting with our leading lady:

Name: Ha-yun 'Hannah' Kim

Age: 23

Hometown: Seattle, Washington

Recently graduated with a Master's Degree in Digital Illustration and Design, Hannah finds herself thrown into some Absolute Nonsense when her conservative grandmother signs her up for a matchmaking service behind her back. Ha...

Nanowrimo 2020 - Day 2 Count and Favorite Bit

Today's I added 2670 words to Match.God, making the total word count 4389. 

If the flight had been on April First, Hannah would almost have hope that this was one huge, elaborate joke. A shame, then, that the flight was schedule for the Second.

The entire drive to the airport, her father attempted to engage her in conversation. What was she looking forward to seeing in Tuscany? Did she remember the first time she ever flew? Did she make sure to pack an e...

Nanowrimo 2020 - Day 1 Word Count and Favorite Bit

It's that time of year where I put everything on hold and power through writing an entire novel in one month. That's right: National Novel Writing Month is here and it's time to share some good shit with y'all. Today's word count is 1719. And my favorite bit is as follows:

For the first time since Hannah was seven and Grandmother first moved in with them, Hannah’s mother found her voice. “You can't be serious!”

And with that, the kitchen exploded. Hanna...

How We Become Chapters 12 and 13

Chapters 12 and 13 of How We Became are up on ao3, just before the midnight kick off of Nanowrimo!

How We Became - Chapter 11

Our Ficlet Winner this month is Loor! Lemme know what you'd like me to write!

Pre-Nanowrimo 2020 Update

Howdy hey, y'all! Just wanted to let you know a few things about the last few months of this year in regards to patreon-only content:

Firstly: there will be a pause in updates to my web novel Frozen Stars Over Wonderland until December, as I am preparing for National Novel Writing Month. 

Secondly: Nanowrimo content will be taking up the majority of my updates starting November 1st and running through the end of that month. If you were around last year, you should ...

(Not) A Soap Opera

Terribly sorry for the delay, but here is the ficlet of the month for September's winner: CallieQ! This month's patron is Loor! Please contact me with your request! 

When Naruto and Sasuke got home, dragging a dead-on-his-feet Kakashi along with them, they did not expect to find a winged man in a crow mask to be sitting on the floor with Tsubasa. Who was this man? Why did he have wings? And why was he just sitting there while Tsubasa, rambunctious toddler that he was, wa...

Spica

Hello all, I finally have some art of one of the supporting characters from Frozen Stars Over Wonderland! It's Spica, the Vampire Assassin -- one of Alfre's first friends in Wonderland. 

This art was done by Popza on deviantArt 

How We Became Chapter 10

How We Became Chapter 9

Frozen Stars Over Wonderland - Chapter 22

There was light at the end of the cave, faint and flickering like fire. They came upon a large, ornate archway, carved from the dark, shiny stone that made up the rest of the cave. It was deceptively pretty, considering where they were. Alfre peeked into the room just beyond. It was large and round, and it was indeed ringed with fire to illuminate it. The fire reflected in pillars of different colored gemstones, some red, some purple, some sickly green, and others still pur...

How We Became

Chapters 7 and 8 are up! Link is to chapter 8.

Frozen Stars Over Wonderland - Chapter 21

“I want to go on a dungeon raid,” Alfre announced. It’d been several weeks since they’d moved back to Spade. The guildhall was finally starting to feel like home, which meant Alfre was getting antsy. “We haven’t done one since the Briarwood Thorns.”

“Ah, that’s true,” Elias agreed. “You’re much stronger now than you were then. Maybe we could try something different.”

“How different?” Alfre asked. 

“A dungeon that’s no...

How We Became - Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of How We Became is now up on ao3!

Frozen Stars Over Wonderland - Chapter 20

The rest of the day was spent out in the streets, shopping for essentials. The bedrooms were bare of any furniture and the kitchen needed to be stocked not only with food but plates and cutlery as well. The money that they saved thanks to June’s haggling quickly disappeared under all the other things they needed to buy for the hall. They came back with arms loaded with bags of goods. Carpenters were sent ahead by the shop merchants to assemble their furniture, a service S...

How We Became - Chapter 5

Chapter 5 is now up on ao3!

Our ficlet winner for September is CallieQ! Please contact me with your prompt :)

How We Became - Chapter 4

Chapter 4 is now available on ao3!

How We Became - Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of How We Became is now live!

July/August ficlet winner is Loor! Please message me with your prompt before the end of the month!

Frozen Stars Over Wonderland - Chapter 19

The farmlands had been extended somewhat, she noticed. The Fell farms remained close to the city walls, but once she passed into the Wilds proper, she noticed new, well-worn paths. Following one curiously, she quickly found herself at the edge of a large, cleared out space in the middle of the Wilds. A village had been built there. It wasn’t much, a few small houses, a windmill, and several barns and plowed farm plots. It was cute, she decided. She probably wouldn’t fin...

How We Became - Chapter 2

An update for How We Became

A reminder that our july/august ficlet winner is Loor! Should this ficlet not be claimed before the end of the month, I'll be moving on to the next winner.

Frozen Stars Over Wonderland - Chapter 18

Alfre was bored. Terribly, terribly bored. Even with her position as Ren’s personal guard, she had little to nothing to do. She and Spica followed Ren pretty much everywhere (her in broad daylight and Spica in the shadows), and you’d think that would mean she was present for some pretty exciting things. But you’d be wrong. You’d be so wrong. Ever since Ren put on the Royal Armor (or whatever the item was called) it was like no one wanted to mess with her. Well, very...

New Project - How We Became

A brand new project based on a far older project. If you like DC comics, this is for you (well, technically it's for me, but you'll enjoy it hopefully)

Announcement: The ficlet winner for July/August is Loor! Please message me to let me know what you'd like me to write for you

Frozen Stars Over Wonderland - Chapter 17

Ren, Ran, and Silver had been gone for several days now. They’d left on the guild’s thousandth quest two days after Alfre’s birthday. They ended up missing Christmas, and the party June and Doremi had thrown for everyone. Alfre slipped out in the middle of the festivities. Too many people in too tight a space. The air was cold, but Alfre didn’t mind, in fact she relished in it. 

“You Fell seem to hold celebrations for everything.” She turned to see Ca...

Frozen Stars Over Wonderland - 17

There were no arguments when Alessio offered them a place to spend the night at the palace. He sent his guards to fetch their elk as he took them on a tour of the palace proper. It was only three stories tall, fairly short for a palace, but it was long and wide, and its grounds were meticulously maintained. 

Alfre stopped in front of a portrait as they wandered down a hall lined in paintings. It was of a young brunette woman, her face similarly shaped to Alessio�...

Frozen Stars Over Wonderland - Chapter 16

Alessio paid for the care and keeping of their elk, along with the two small rooms on either side of his where they could rest until the night came. They left through their windows once darkness had settled over the city, Izo having the hardest time with this given his stature. Spica and Traveler moved across the roofs without making a sound, along with Alessio’s female guard, who appeared to be a hunter in class. His other guard, a dark skinned man in his early thirties,...