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Harmon had always liked the Barrier Storms. They weren’t visible from Dondrian, not even on a very clear day, but there were a set of islands an hour’s flight to the north, ...
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Verity had gotten used to the palace, and had to admit that she loved it. It was built into the mountain, but there was enough variation among the interiors and windows carved i...
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When Mizuki stepped out into the demiplane, it wasn’t like she’d been hiding out in extradimensional space for the last week and a half. It was instead like practically no t...
2022-10-27 15:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back from South Korea! The entire schedule will be shifted by one day this week, because I missed my deadline yesterday. I didn't do much work on vacation, thinking that I had half the...
2022-10-25 15:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the lateness of this chapter (though I don't technically have a release window, I do try to put up chapters around 11AM my time). I'm still sick, and also made things hard on...
2022-10-05 23:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the relative lateness of this one. I came back from my trip in England to find my son had a cold, and to my dismay, I now also have a cold. For my money, getting sick a lot is on...
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Being ‘jarred’ was risky, but Ria was no stranger to risk. She had gotten into sticky situations before, and it had always worked out, which she knew was a dangerous thing, ...
2022-09-28 15:25:56 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we're back ... for a bit. My South Korea trip looms, which will unfortunately mean another schedule interruption next month. If these trips had been less serendipitous and more planned...
2022-09-26 13:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostA reminder that there will be no chapters until two weeks from now (or possibly there will be a chapter on the 21st, which would need to be posted almost immediately when I came home? I'm ...
2022-09-12 18:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, as far as my break goes, I think the 14th and 19th won't have chapters, and the 21st maybe won't, depending on whether I get much writing done on the plane and how much b...
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In the interests of trying to follow Kell through time, Alfric stayed at the house with Vertex. This was partly to watch, and partly to set himself up for the next day. There we...
2022-09-05 17:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostNext month I'll be going on a trip overseas to England, my second time leaving the country unless you count Canada. I think I'll be missing two chapters, though I'm going to a wri...
2022-08-31 16:18:04 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Read the chapter first, but once you do, 2022-08-29 16:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Verity had never really been around children, even when she was a child herself. She didn’t have any brothers or sisters, though she didn’t really know why that was...
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Mizuki was feeling great. The curse, such as it was, had been lifted, they had more lutes than they would ever need, an awesome sword had bound itself to her, and Alfric was in ...
2022-08-22 16:07:28 +0000 UTC View PostI wrote a short story, and as pointed out, yes, should also share it here. 3.5K words, pretty short, on writing, reading, and finding connection. Read on AO3, or below!
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The sites had gone empty almost overnight. It was the deep learning models that had done it, with such power and force that everyone was left feeling a bit rootless. The writing had been on the wall, if you knew where to look for it, but for most, it seemed like one day someone...
2022-08-18 20:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostIf you'd like to read a totally unrelated bit of non-fiction, I wrote a blog post on AI art and some thoughts about it, 2022-08-17 15:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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They worked their way through the rooms, trying their best to go fast. The thrum that filled the area was a constant, and they grew good at anticipating it. Sometimes someone wo...
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Alfric moved slowly to the room’s brass door. They were well and truly lost in the dungeon, which wasn’t a good thing to be, especially not so quickly in. This was worse tha...
2022-08-10 15:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe've officially passed the one year mark of Dungeons being posted. I'd like to say, first of all, thanks for all the support, and second, I'm overall pretty happy with this story...
2022-08-08 15:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostI'm streaming on twitch all this week, usually an hour or two, usually not long after chapters get put up, worki...
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Kell moved swiftly through the bulrushes, naked from the waist up. His clothes had been set in a neat pile, away from the murky water, all but his briefs, which he had decided h...
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Mi-zu-ki and Ver-ity!
When they’re to-gether there’s lots of glee!
Stick a-round and you will see!
Today might be the day they climb a tree!
“Wow,...
2022-07-27 15:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostNo writing stream today, a tendon in my hand is giving me trouble and I'd like to rest it.
Thanks, once again, for all the support.
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Isra woke up alone. The room had ...
2022-07-25 16:35:16 +0000 UTC View PostNote: If you don't like the more intense dungeon chapters, this is probably one to skip, and I'll make sure that context for what happened in this chapter is in the next chapter.
Content warning: suicide, violence, death
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It was more or less exactly what Alfric had feared. If Verity and Isra had not actually broken up, they were, at least, on the rocks. After their return from Dondrian, the feeli...
2022-07-18 17:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: This chapter comes with a song! I think the best way to listen to it is to get to the part of the chapter with the song, then play it rather than just reading the lyrics. ...
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The return trip to Dondrian was done without the Overguards, and there was a part of Mizuki that felt a little hurt by that. She knew that self-sufficiency was something they pr...
2022-07-11 16:11:58 +0000 UTC View PostMinor note: I will be making an attempt at streaming writing the exclusions doc for Worth the Candle, at https://www.twitch.tv/alexanderwales. Mostly just trying this out to see how it is, and if it doesn't work, no big deal. I'm hoping that this gives me some incentive to work on that thing for at least a little bit every day. I don't think it'll be hugely entertaining, and the audience is niche, but it's there if you want to check it out. (Also will make VODs.) M...
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Verity was skeptical about going to confront the Other Pedders. They had crashed a party, yes, and there had been some kind of large brawl with upwards of three dozen participan...
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