The Hunter's Journal

04 Your favourite character to write about and why

I love this question.

One Wing Angel:Kiera. Hands down. I could say it's because I love writing women who kick ass and hold their own with the men. (I do!) I could say it's because she's feminine, a leader, and all those other things. (she is!)

However, the really big reason I like writing Kiera? Is because not only is she all those things? But she's also human. And humans to me are utterly fascinating. Especially when you start digging below the surface.

Dragon Blooded: Min Hou. She's a jackass, honorable, arrogant, has Mommy Issues that grad students could use for papers forever and so military it hurts. She's the one without the sense of humor at all, yet, to me she's hilarious.

05 Your favourite part of the story
06 How often do you write this story and in what environment?
07 Post a chapter or scene for everyone to read (suggested 500–3,000 words)

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Okay, now that meme is out of the way, an update:

I finished stitching the Geisha and have now gone on to doing all the outlining that can't be done until the stitching is done. Sigh. It's possibly even more tedious. D:

But, I am getting it done and hopefully this weekend there will be pictures. I'm hoping to get the outlining done by Monday, and have it at the framers by Tuesday, but we'll see.

My babies turn 12 on Saturday and my kitten is a year old this week too. Now, back to work.

On a break from cleaning, so I shall post a meme:

02 Describe the world that the story happens in (use photos or graphics if you want)

One Wing Angel: Originally, I stated "generic fantasy land" however, I've changed that in my mind. Why?

Because I've been trying to describe the school in my head and the surrounding countryside. It hasn't worked, until I was looking at something else and came across some pictures and my mind went "THAT!"

So, have some pictures. This is the school. I imagine it a darker stone, but that's still the school where the beginning of the story takes place. These two are indicative of the countryside our intrepid heroine goes through.

Dragon Blooded: I've drawn a map for this, and keep it close, but haven't scanned it in.

Not only is this a pseudo Asian world (Koren, Japanese, and Mongolian influences) but it's also a militaristic society. The divisions are fortresses, and the estates have huge walls around them. This makes for tiny pockets of different cultures. It's actually very interesting. Plus, there's the difference of the main island versus the smaller ones around it.

So, yeah.


03 Explain the main basis of the plot
04 Your favourite character to write about and why
05 Your favourite part of the story
06 How often do you write this story and in what environment?
07 Post a chapter or scene for everyone to read (suggested 500–3,000 words)

Taken straight from clare_dragonfly:

Here's how it works: To play, first open your music library (iTunes, Media Monkey, iPod, Winamp, or whatever else you use. If you don’t use a music library... well, dang. This probably won’t work so well with Spotify, last.fm, etc., but you could try it). This is your entire, unfiltered library - no special selections, no playlists. Everything.

Make sure your library is on shuffle. Press play and, for each of the numbered plot points on the list that follows, fill in the song that’s playing. Press ‘next’ for each new plot point, but no skipping, and no cheating!

Are you brave enough to expose your guilty musical pleasures to the world... or try to make sense of the soundtrack that emerges?

( Soundtrack of my life )