Recent content by Dren

In my defense, the last time was probably like... over a year ago. I'm Dren, or Chloe, and I'm a 29 year old woman in Kansas who works in healthcare and plays Dungeons and Dragons every weekend with a group I've been friends with for about five years. I used to write a lot but then sort of...

Ooof. 3000 words today, doubling my word count and making up for my unintentional day off yesterday. Turning off my inner critic and ignoring the fact that it's bland, clunky, and minimal on personality right now is just freeing. I'm basically just skipping around, keeping it generally...

Oh definitely. When I was in high school, I not only journaled extensively, I also did a lot of... online debating, shall we say. Word choice, idea structure... it's not just for fiction.

I didn't considered malware. Running a scan right now. Thank you!

Cleared out my cache and cookies. Chrome updated but the problem is still there. I'll let you know if anything changes. Thank you!

Version 62.0.3202.62 Thank you!

Using Chrome. Don't know the exact numbers for the version but apparently I'm up to date? There's no indicator for any updates on my end.

So something I've noticed is that as I type, the cursor jumps around. Not the mouse cursor, the text cursor. At first I thought it was me, because sometimes the heel of my hand hits the mousepad and causes it to move the cursor. But as I typed in different places, I realized it only happens...

I have nothing against it, it was just very strange because Ranger's Apprentice (the book series written by John Flanagan that used it) did it very... Shamelessly isn't the right word... But it was like, "Horace said this. He thought this that and the other. Will laughed. Will thought that...

One writer, John Flanagan, shifts between character POV in the middle of scenes. Either that or it's the weirdest omniscient POV I've ever seen. Love him but it's the weirdest thing.

I'm working on something right now, actually; a little probably non-canon passage with the express, specific purpose of working on imagery and description. Nothing like writing a passage about your MC being trapped in an eldritch abomination's home turf and having his brain picked apart for...

So it's been... about three years since I've done any serious writing (and by serious writing I mean any writing beyond bare-bones synopses and note-taking for DnD campaigns), and I'm trying to get back into it for NaNoWriMo this year. And I've started writing something and noticed a problem...

Well, this is high fantasy in a wild west setting, so I'm picturing things like swords and bows still being the predominant form of warfare. My thing is finding the balance between wild west and high fantasy.

So the title is a bit inaccurate but basically, I'm looking to write a sort of... Wild West/High Fantasy combo, where a traditional high fantasy world has progressed to the point of technology in the Wild West: steampower, some rudimentary and rare firearms, etc., but still with magic, dragons...

I think I'm gonna really hunker down on a story idea I'm calling Champion of Death, about a group of people who are chosen by the god of the dead to act as champions for corrupted gods. It'll mainly follow four out of seven, the youngest who have only recently 'Awoken'.