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A Lemon's Worldview

When I decided to write a story about King Arthur, I vastly underestimated the amount of research I would be doing. Also, I didn’t expect...

Fantasy Holidays

I wanted to add in holidays for various parts of the Mercuy series. Since my main character is a Fae Prince, I spent time looking up...

5 Grammar Tips For Writers

These are things I've found issues with in my own writing and seen in a lot of manuscripts, especially rough drafts.

A Writer's Search History

A blog about weird things I Google while writing my book.

Google and Writing

I thought it would be fun to share my search history with you from when I was writing Mercury Rising.

Discord Write-In

My Discord writing room, which is mostly used to encourage and help other writers, tried out a test run for a virtual write-in.

Fantasy Map Making

How I created the map for Mercury Rising

Fantasy Words

How do writers choose the words for their fantasy novels?

Plotting with Tarot Cards

Plotting a story with tarot cards and a trope prompt!