Many years ago, when I was still part of SFWA, I had a long conversation with the Patreon reps about their platform. I’d been using Patreon for a several years already, and they wanted my take on it. That conversation led me to a video call/inte...
2020-10-15 13:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Poor Worldlord and Simone. So confused. I have no idea what their story is going to look like but I get to write it because the Kickstarter coasted over the $5K line! Today's the last day you can back, unless you wake up early tomorrow (or you're ...
2020-10-13 10:33:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Monday, Patrons! Have some art! I am trying to get my groove back here with more frequent drawing (and I'll certainly need to start coming up with a cover for the new Kickstarter collection), and I had several good sessions recently. (Thank ...
2020-10-05 12:34:53 +0000 UTC View Post
My most successful Kickstarter to date was last year’s Major Pieces project, which gathered some interstitial stories I’d already completed with stories written from your prompts to fill in some of the gaps of the Princes’ Gam...
2020-09-30 16:04:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Cool stuff coming or available now!
Today's content will be helpful if you ever want to deal with me! Or if you want to think about social-fu. Otherwise, feel free to skip it! But hey, I haven't done a philosophy-type ramble the way I used to on Livejournal in a while, so here's a t...
2020-09-21 13:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe summer ripened with the grain, and Zafiil strengthened with it, rambling on long walks through the forests or near the lake with Duzai. She climbed trees; she sprinted long stretches with the grasses whipping a steady rhythm against her flashi...
2020-09-17 10:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, I'm trying to get back on the bandwagon. Today at 1 PM EST (timezone converter: use New York, America), I'll be narrating my way through a partial scan of one of my sketchboo...
2020-09-16 13:59:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Because nothing survives contact with the enemy (time), these are only *tentative* plans. But here's how I'm thinking the next couple of years will go:
I continue to experiment with water-miscible oils! For this piece I switched to a different brand and I'm really glad I looked on the forums for people's experiences, because otherwise I wouldn't have known this brand existed. Blick doesn...
2020-09-08 15:17:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I am endlessly entertained by the bizarre positions the cat ends up in while using this beanbag.
2020-09-05 14:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The next day Zafiil woke just before sunrise—she thought, from the color of the sky seen through her window. Was it too early to be up? But she was definitely awake! Paden-aul had warned her that she might find it difficult to adjust to a new sc...
2020-09-03 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Things are crazy lately! If you have sent me a message or email, I promise I've read it, I just have a lot going on. I did, however, manage to finish this 7000-ish word vignette in response to several people asking me for Jahir/Lisinthir. When the...
2020-09-01 12:09:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We return to the world of the Faulfenza! Chapter 2: In which Zafiil reaches her new home.
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The sunlight was slanting through the trees when Zafiil woke. She was moving without walking, a fact which caused her some consterna...
2020-08-27 12:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We begin our religious epic in the world of the Faulfenza! Chapter 1: In which we meet a prickly child...
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“Give your sister a goodbye nuzzle, Zafiil,” Qazen-dii said.
Zafiil rose on her toes so...
2020-08-20 15:34:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Artist Jaguar continues experimenting with water-miscible oils, and finding them fascinating because they are Not Like Gouache. I have a long, long list of things I need to experiment with in order to feel like I understand these new/old tools, be...
2020-08-17 19:38:41 +0000 UTC View Post
https://mcahogarth.bandcamp.com/album/amulet-rampant
As before, it's free, because you all are paying to crowdfund it. If you'd like to donate, you ...
2020-08-11 12:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
At the time I finished Zafiil, there was no such thing as indie publishing, and wouldn’t be for at least a decade. My goal was to be a Published Author, though, so I embarked on the tradpub process: write short stories to get your name ...
2020-08-10 15:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first in a short series of posts introducing the serialization of Zafiil, Jaguar’s first novel, and a story of the Faulfenza.
It may entertain y’all to learn that once upon a time, I worried that I would never have a...
2020-08-03 16:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We return to the saga of the new jaguar studio! Some Big Next Steps were taken, so I am excite.
Okay, maybe bookends don’t seem like a very exciting thing to other people, but stick with me here. Those rows of sketchbooks ...
2020-07-29 14:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm going to start moving my computers and furniture into the newly painted studio! And I want to show you more in-progress shots but obviously I need to get everything wheeled over and reconnected first. I'm hoping to be back in business by...
2020-07-27 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, I'm finally making headway on editing this one, and I'm going to start serializing it here once I've got a few more chapters in the bag. For those of you unaware, the novel Zafiil, about the character Zafiil, concerns the hi...
2020-07-24 19:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
We return to the saga of my new studio! Furniture choices are going to have to wait until I decide how to handle the walls (which I think I want to repaint)… but the closet is fine the color it is, so I’ve started filling it.
My first ch...
2020-07-20 15:17:18 +0000 UTC View Post
THREE HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
When his favorite student invites him to immigrate to the world of the fabled Eldritch, Armin Palland brings his wife and mother-in-law and all the unresolved issues he’s been av...
2020-07-17 13:49:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope to have fun news for you on Friday (some of you have already ferreted it out, I see), but in the meantime, here's what I'm up to!
We return to my observations about writers’ bibles and worldbuilding as the wiki develops! In this case… it’s time to tell you that your flaws can be supremely helpful to you.
BAD RECALL IS YOUR FRIEND. For instance! O...
2020-07-09 13:29:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been only intermittently updating and available, but I have good reason! We've been doing a lot of work on the house and we're not done yet... but one of the unmitigated good parts of it is that I'm going to finally have a room of my own! I...
2020-07-06 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A question I’m getting more than once is ‘how do you organize your wiki so that it’s useful for your writing.’ Which… is not a minor question, because my initial response is ‘I’ve organized it? It’s a big enormous tangled mess of s...
2020-06-30 13:25:30 +0000 UTC View Post
