Tag: Stories
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Pronunciations
Update : Updated formatting to current blog standards. First off, sorry for the delay in updates! Adult things got in the way of my posting for a couple days, so I’ll try to make it up to you this week! Now, you may or may not know this, but I’m a perfectionist. I’m also super…
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Falling Into Plot Holes
Update 9/6/23: Updated formatting to current blog standards. Plot holes. It’s what I’m encountering the most right now during the planning process of The Victor’s Blade, and let me tell you, they are a killer. For me as the writer and you as the reader. Sure, parodies like YouTube channels How It Should Have Ended…
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An Interview with Jaranin
All right. Let’s start out with the easy questions. What is your full name? Jaranin Riel. Or, well, actually, Jaranin Thoranan. Sorry. The new last name sure takes some getting used to! (Laughs) Do you have a nickname, pseudonym, or alternate identity? Oh, well maybe I should’ve saved the “Thoranan” bit for this question? I…
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Excerpt – TVB: “Isalaina”
This scene is getting a facelift! For a revised and up-to-date version of this excerpt, check back April 19th! Or just read on, you rebel, you. Update: New version is now live! Check it out here. His whole form seemed to solidify on the spot. He swallowed hard and tried to avert his gaze. He…
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Excerpt – TVB: “The Storyteller”
“Are we forgetting anything?” Jaranin asked, looking up from trying to tame his tousled brown hair. His eyes skirted their surroundings. Other than the pond he’d been using as a mirror and the trees all around, there wasn’t much to see. Well, besides his partner-in-crime, Elun, who was standing there bedecked with what must have…
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More On The Victor’s Blade and Why It’s a Monster… Beast… Thing.
The Victor’s Blade is about a small-town boy named Jaranin who must solve the riddle of his late father‘s journal. If he succeeds, the book will lead him to the location of his inheritance and destiny: a legendary sword called the Victor’s Blade. The sword, the topic of myths for centuries, is said to grant…