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A list of everything I've published under Wizard's Wood Press, and where to find it, in a sticky posting.
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I ripped off an idea from another story.

I was just looking back at that story and realizing how little of it came away, in part because it grew into the rest of the story ideas.   I look at it, and I know for a fact that the villains grew out the idea, but they were entirely different from the villains of the story he came from. 

Inspiration is strange.
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 4 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers for the earlier books.

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Jul. 13th, 2025 11:13 am
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This week's prompt is:
park 🏞️

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
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Went back to rework the opening and make it a firmer foundation. Had to know how the heroine discovered her powers up front to work on her making more subtle discoveries.

Am discovering bits and pieces that do not add up.

The heroine chooses which way to go based on severely limited information. She is going to have to learn what was the other way at some point -- in particular, because she meets some people on the way, and they had to have a reason to be there.


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marycatelli: (Golden Hair)
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 3 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers for the earlier books ahead.

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 2 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers ahead for the first volume.

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1 by Kanehito Yamada

Prologue: the hero and his companions -- one the elf Frieren -- are honored for the defeat and death of the Demon King. They watch a meteor shower and Frieren speaks of seeing it in a better place to view, in 50 years.

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How do the characters learn their new powers?

I scorn to use pop-ups. Besides, this isekai is not a RPGlit even if the heroine acquired a class, as many others do. So I say that the newcomers intuitively know what to do.

So now she has to learn subtle differences in what she had perceived as undifferentiated problems.

Intuitively.

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marycatelli: (Golden Hair)
The New School Reader: Fourth Book by Charles Walton Sanders

A 1856 book on elocution. Opens with discussions of how to say things, and then offers many samples of eloquent prose and poetry to praise on -- and to have your character formed by, since, as he writes, they were chosen toward that important end.
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The heroine  has been given the run-around.

She deduces it, but since "go heal those people' is something she should do, she tries to puzzle things out.

I am picking up the pace again, and thinking that section is really going to need some work.  I'm sending her to Mass, but it will take more.
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The Words of the Night by C. Chancy

A historian is on a plane to Korea when it is attacked by a dragon.

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Hurrah. The stepmother and stepdaughter ran off together and found themselves in a hut in the forest, desperately needing two people to die.

Horrible people, to be sure, but they have no real way to kill the husband and father, and they don't even know who the other person is.

I think the mirror is going to be helpful. A bit.

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