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NEWSLETTER SNIPPETS; Issue #1
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in want of engagement must put herself on multiple platforms. Or at least, that’s what I’m telling myself. My first newsletter went out at the end of September. I’m still figuring out what I’ll be putting on there, what the layout will look like – I’ve already made some changes since the first issue went out – but a few things I know for sure: You can sign up here! Reading is one thing I talk about here, so you’re mostly up to date with what I’ve finished this year. I also found an audiobook of Howl’s Moving…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; September Round Up
This month’s prompt was something different – a little longer than could fit on my graphic too! – but so much fun. Chosen by L’poni Baldwin, the full prompt included a video to give more inspiration. What would your character do if they could flee to any world in their universe? Would they make it their new vacation home? Try to take over? The decision and story can be based around their motivation. Perhaps your characters need a vacation. Or Your character is thrown into the worst possibly world in their universe. Is it a planet of eldritch creatures? A planet full of natural disasters where only perseverance can help…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; August Round Up
We really did decide to switch things up for the new year of prompts. And I couldn’t be more excited about it! This time around Hannah Joy suggested interviewing our OCs, and of course we’ve all got different approaches to it. I think they speak for themselves, really. I don’t explicitly mention it in the story, but in my mind, this was absolutely connected to a previous short story in this series. Can you guess which? INDEX:Lou Yardley – Interview With MorgaKelsey Clarey – From The Journal Of Kairi HirataMorris Wayts – Interview at the CampfireAradhna Kaur (me!) – The Questionnaire And as per usual, any prompt fills going up…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; July Round Up
This month marked the 12th month of the Author Avengers taking a single prompt and coming up with our own individual takes on it. Can you believe it? I sure can’t! To mark the occasion, Victoria Audley chose this July’s theme a little differently. And it was perfect – a single word, the first time we’ve taken a prompt like this. I had a lot of fun with this one, and already it seems the approaches are going to be vastly unique. I hope you enjoy! INDEX:Victoria Audley – Gentle AlchemyMorris Wayts – A Yearly DanceAradhna Kaur (me!) – Of Sacrifices And Monsters As per usual, any story going up after this post will…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; Prompt-versary
Tomorrow will mark the 12th story I’ve written and posted for the Author Avengers prompts. It’s been an entire year of vastly different prompts that I then decided all took place in the same universe. albeit in various dimensions and times. Turning these unconnected (for the most part) stories into a large-interconnected web has been an interesting challenge for myself, and has encouraged me to also use World Anvil to further build the world I call Ajahta. Am I going to keep at doing every month’s prompt? I hope so, but I’m not going to be as stringent about it perhaps. Who knows what the future holds, after all? And…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; June Round Up
It’s difficult to believe this is the eleventh month we have been doing this. Next month will mark an ENTIRE YEAR of prompts and the stories that have come from it. This month’s prompt was given by kabu, and it was a fun one! I wound up with something a little experimental that I connected to an older (non-prompt) story. (And then I started reading an old favourite with dragons earlier this week… Seems to be a dragonified month… LOL.) INDEX:Aradhna Kaur (me!) – The End – And Beginning – Of Eras As per usual, any story going up after this post will be linked in here! If you like…
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SPOTLIGHT; M.A. Vice in an Interview with the Author
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these types of posts. But when I found out The Impavidus Cycle was getting new paperbacks, I jumped on the chance to be a part of the cover reveal. They were posted everywhere on the 14th – I even changed up my bookstagram upload schedule for this and I regret nothing – and then I thought, hey, you know what? I’m going to ask Meg a few questions as well if she is up for it. She was, and I am so grateful to her for the chance of not just sharing the new covers – aren’t they gorgeous? – but…
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July Online Writing Events I’m Looking Forward To
A little bit early, but I’m hyping myself up for a few events that will be happening in the online space this July! These are writing events with an emphasis on community and encouragement, and I’ve had the privilege of taking part in them at least once each before. You can bet I’m taking these events as a way to hit targets I’m setting for myself, and find new writing friends! GWIC – or the Global Write In Crawl – will take place during the first weekend of July. Described as a “virtual event during which participants can visit the virtual writing spaces (Discord) of other regions, participate in writing…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; May Round Up
After a couple of months of struggling with the prompts – though I am proud of the fact that I managed to write them anyway – May brought about a prompt I was not just excited by, but also inspired by. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I really wanted to try and write something that fell at least a little bit under the MerMay theme. I like to think I succeeded, but you can tell me better if I did or didn’t. This month’s prompt was chosen by Morris Wayts (via a writing prompt generator), and as this is going up on the blog early,…
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The Importance Of Building A Habit
It’s been a little bit since I’ve had the chance – and inspiration – to write a blog post outside a review or prompt round up, so please bear with me. This is a little bit of a ramble, but I swear I have a point! I’ve written a number of blog posts – tips, tricks, things that work for me – on content creation. I wrote an entire series on it, in fact, and one thing that I keep coming back to is that what works for one person may not necessarily work for someone else. Take each piece of advice with a grain of salt – keep what…