Category Archives: Writing
Technology Levels (In Map Form)
One of the things I have always been certain about with my world is that it is not a Standard Medieval Setting. In fact, the first version I worked on was maybe 300 years in the future of the current … Continue reading
More Maps!
Some of you are probably tired of my maps, but that’s okay. You don’t have to read about them! For those that like them, I have some…uh…interesting ones this time.
Book Spine and Backplate, Book 1
Hi there, everyone who just showed up because Pauline M Ross is awesome! Nice to see you. I wasn’t planning on posting tonight — it’s a work night and my feet are sore — but then I remembered I had … Continue reading
Making Pictographs
I’ve already made a few posts involving my made-up language, Gheshvan: one involving the base-six number system (which might have gotten a bit ridiculous there at the end) and the other with the phonetic alphabet. I might have mentioned in … Continue reading
Maps Are Possibly A Bit Too Entertaining
I think I have a problem: ever since I decided to make my own world-maps, I haven’t been able to stop. I’ve always had a detail-oriented personality, which is why I still have reams of world-information needing translation into a … Continue reading
Book 2 Cover Process #1
Back to the fun thing I like to call ‘nitpicking my artist until she drives across state lines to stab me with a kitchen knife’! Previously, on The Cover of Book 2:
The Halion Calendar
I’m always tinkering with the details of my world, whether consciously or in the back of my mind, and I always knew that it did not have the same length of year/month/week/day as Earth. I just recently formalized that idea, … Continue reading
Halion Critters 2
Since my artist friend sketched up a few more images of my creatures, I’m sharing them here with blurbs like last time.
Akarriden and Spirit Blades
The world of Halci is home to a variety of magics, each of which lend themselves differently to the practice of crafting magical weapons. While the most unusual might be the akarriden blade, the others bear mentioning if only for … Continue reading
Influences: Nine Inch Nails (and other Industrial/Synthpop)
I have to admit that only some of my influences are book-based. I love books, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes a song provides so much more inspiration than a block of prose, so I really can’t leave this side … Continue reading
The War of Memory Project 