Book review: Cinderella’s Ashes

A dark little piece of lovely by Lizella Prescott. Definitely not your normal retelling of Cinderella. We eshew the gentle, sweet servant girl of yore for a tale about pyrokinetic psycho. And I liked it. It’s short, but rich, and relies on taking the elements of a familiar story and giving them chilling twists. I wanted […]

Book review: The Snow Owl

A stand alone short story about a boy connected to the seasons by potentially malevolent means. While the actual writing is superb, I found the plot anemic. Hartling has a good handle on his characters’s personalities but at times their actions feel like they are done to facilitate the plot, and not organic actions of […]

A little hiatus

There is some artwork up today, but no comic. And there won’t be a comic for about a month. This is because I am moving. I finally, finally get to say it outright: I AM MOVING!!! And not just across town. I’m moving across the country. But this does mean that some things need to […]

Not so daily writing blog

A long time ago, when I was a wee novice of a writer, I knew that I needed to train myself. I needed to write daily, even if it was only writing about why I wasn’t writing. Because I also know that posting updates to your friends and family can be motivating, I started in […]

The Arrow/Naruto Connection

The following contain spoilers for both Naruto AND Arrow, as well as links to tvtropes.org. I’ll try to beat the preview. Hopefully this sentence pushes us over the edge. The weather has turned subzero and I’m in hibernation mode. Watching Arrow with the husband, and he’s getting buddy-buddy with Malcolm Merlyn (Oliver Queen, not my […]

Plugging Away

I’m stuck. Not on plot, but on blocking. My novels have a huge cast, and I’m trying to rework a fight scene. Just constant juggling people and choreography. Yes, I am frustrated, while still maintaining myopic intensity. Yes, I KNOW I have other writing stuff to do. But where is Edie standing right now?

Sorry about Friday

I got some really, really bad news, and was in no fit mood for human interaction. Even through my blog. Feeling better today though. I even got my work done on the Red Witch last night. With any luck, my spirits will be back to normal levels tomorrow. Miss Ashley will have a comic for […]

Just staring

For two days, I have opened Scrivener and done nothing. I’m very aware of what I need to do. I have to add in a a few fights scenes, which can be heavily adapted from the ones that I cut (and still have saved in older drafts.) The problem is that this is a lot […]