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World Building Project

As a writer, there's nothing more unnerving than planning. Not too long ago, I've made the decision to dedicate my time to writing my fantasy novel. Therefore, I had to take some time to construct a world where culture and religion (even clothing), are re

As a writer, there’s nothing more unnerving than planning. Not too long ago, I’ve made the decision to dedicate my time to writing my fantasy novel. Therefore, I had to take some time to construct a world where culture and religion (even clothing), are realistically relatable but tangent to our world. However, I never knew this world building would eventually help organize my plot, and it was…

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Vietnamese ao dai by Thai Tuan

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Short story: Goodbye at the Funeral

Short story: Goodbye at the Funeral

Based on the writing exercise: Write POV of a dead person at a funeral Cold; That’s all I can feel in my confined darkness. The crushed velvet lining was supposed to allude a tantalizing warmth I once was. What a joke; a mind trick for me to feel? I can’t move my limbs, barely to reach out and stretch, tipping over my new bed while relatives and by-passers shrill in horror of a being thought…

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Tragic Love Stories

Thank you for reading my blog! Please spare some change so I can get coffee for my brain. It will be much appreciated! Valentine’s Day has passed, but that hasn’t stopped many to continue their adoration to their partners or announce their declaration to the world. When one interprets romance in literature, many pieces revolve around love at first or second sight, or conquering classes and…

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Celebrating the Year of the Tiger: Reading List

Celebrating the Year of the Tiger: Reading List

Thank you for reading my blog! Please spare some change so I can get coffee for my brain. It will be much appreciated! Whether it’s called Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year, this day has been the most essential and exciting holiday for me and my family; I remember watching parades lined with red and gold, the sound of fire crackers and drums, and being amazed by the lion costume dancing to each…

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D&D 5E spells in TLoVM episodes 1-3. This probably isn't all of them and I took some liberties with the exact descriptions, but here you go.

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The Outsider: Doppelgängers & Monsters

The Outsider: Doppelgängers & Monsters

“Once you eliminate the natural, whatever remains must be supernatural?”Stephen King, The Outsider, 2018 What a great way to relax during the holidays like reading a supernatural crime thriller by one of the greatest writers of modern horror. To begin 2022 with a bang, I wanted to read something quick and entertaining, and I subsequently came across The Outsider by Stephen King through a…

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“Let’s get drunk at midnight, listen to our favorite songs and kiss so much that our lips burn.”

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Happy new year to 2022! 🎉🌙🌟💫

Keep wandering, keep dreaming.

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“One of the most beautiful things we can do is to help one another. Kindness doesn’t cost a thing.”

— Unknown

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Small Things Like These: Example of Gentle Kindness

Small Things Like These: Example of Gentle Kindness

“Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These, 2021 The shortest story can make a massive impact in our lives; Shirley Jackson’s uneasy plot of The Lottery and Ernest Hemingway’s destructive nature of The Old Man and the Sea are just a couple of phenomenal works in classic literature.…

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The Last Duel: An Antithesis of Medieval Romanticism

The Last Duel: An Antithesis of Medieval Romanticism

“Once the actual combat began, the chivalry is dead.”The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France, Eric Jager October 15th, 2021 marks the release of Ridley Scott’s historical film, The Last Duel, based on true events of the last recorded trial by combat in Medieval France. A historical account researched and written by Medieval Literature professor Eric…

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The World will Crumble

The World will Crumble

Original Poem The world will crumble when my unrequited love for you fades into the fog Memories of unspoken emotions continues to turn in my heart like the gears of a clock. The world will crumble when my melancholia for you will be forgotten All you’ve taught me, all the firsts, will dissipate like the sun evaporating the mist. Although you do not love me anymore, I hold on to the…