"It’s a funny thing, coming home. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realise what’s changed is you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was a short sail back to the growin...
2022-03-05 23:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostHeads up, it is that time of the month.
Good news
1. I'm still writing 6 months after starting this during a summer holiday. February saw my highest number of patrons reaching 321! Thanks for everyone's support!
2. I have a new...
"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself."
Unknown
A lot can happen in a year. Then again, not a lot can happen in a year too! The question was, 'Which areas in your life have seen changes and which are...
2022-02-27 00:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Time flies when you are having fun.”
Albert Einstein
Alderman Cadmus POV
The Swift finally arrived at the island Wester Ponente, the furthermost isle of the Kingdom. This would be the last stop before the s...
2022-02-24 02:01:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Time heals all wounds.”
Stephen King
My brain had spun until I had passed out again. I was woken up to . . .
“Joyful anniversary.” Shouted by my family as they surrounded me in my crib. It appeared the ...
2022-02-21 17:34:46 +0000 UTC View Post“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
Robert Burns
Tick . . . tock . . . tick . . . tock
6 . . . 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1!
Happy Birthday to me! I lay in sullen silence as the t...
2022-02-19 21:15:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Optimism is the elixir of life for the weak."
Max Hastings
Waking up the next morning, was a roller coaster of emotions. The initial calm as your brain transitions between unconsciousness and wakefulness. Followed by a sudden burst ...
“You taste injustice, even if it’s fictional, really taste it, it has a way of doing that. Sometimes you can never put the shoe on the other foot.”
Kristen Ashley
“Care to explain?” I had not had the best of...
2022-02-03 21:59:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Try to remain truthful. The power of the truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it’s truth that prevails.
Dalai Lama
Despite my anger at my choice in the ...
2022-02-02 22:19:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.”
Jenna Alatari
“You’re lying.” was an interesting sentence to wake up to. Bu...
2022-02-01 23:08:48 +0000 UTC View Post
“There are rules to luck. Not everything is chance to the wise; luck can be helped by skill.”
Baltasar Gracian
I had already had two naps today. So, even though I was tiring quicker than I used to, I was not a...
2022-01-30 01:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I started this project it was a holiday project. I got lucky on Royal Road and it took off.
Now that it could possibly be more than a hobby at some point, I am going to have to edit Singer, Sailor, Merchant, Mage. Probably not until th...
“At the end of the day, it’s important to know what really matters most in life . . . your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew.”
Les Brown
At the end of the day I had started anew, af...
2022-01-29 00:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt is that time of the month.
Hoping to get out another chapter or two before the end of January but it looks like I will be Covid negative for 2 days in a row over the weekend so back to work next week. This means I have some work work to ...
“Sleeping is no mean art: for it’s sake one must stay awake all day.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
I awoke slowly for once, there is something about oblivion that puts your problems in perspective even if it was only the...
2022-01-27 22:30:15 +0000 UTC View Post“If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.”
Naoto Kan
Stunned silence dripped to the floor, as the beer slowly trickled its way down the wall. They sat for a second absor...
2022-01-26 22:18:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.”
David Adam
I had been here before. Sat in my mind watching the world go by outside without ...
2022-01-25 22:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post“If you want to keep a secret then you have to hide it from yourself.”
George Orwell
Now, this I had to see! My eyes spasmed open enough for me to be able to look between the lids. I left them where they were....
2022-01-24 23:41:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Buddha
“The child is imbalanced.” sighed Grandfather.
After I had been caught out of the air, I had been held and carried all t...
2022-01-24 00:46:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet. I know more than I say, I think more than I speak and observe more than you know.”
Michaela Chung
I’ve become a little quiet at the moment. The problem was, it wasn...
2022-01-23 00:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostI am alive and Singer Sailor Merchant Mage will continue.
Just an apology for the delay in the chapter I am working on it. I have got sucked into researching the overarching concepts/races/traits of each of the eight compass king...
2022-01-17 00:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post"Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source."
Warren Buffett
Rome was not built in a day but every day they laid bricks or something like that, I couldn't remember but the point wa...
2022-01-09 03:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”
Hugh B Brown
We had done another two jumps over the last fortnight and this meant that I was now sitting on 88 points of Clarity. ...
2022-01-02 01:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostLooking at work for the next month. The posting plan is as follows.
Saturday 1st January Ch 55
Saturday 8th January Ch 56
Saturday 15th January Ch 57
Saturday 22nd January Ch 58
Saturday 29th January Ch 59
& Cha...
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
H.P. Lovecraft
“Are you ready?” Mother asked.
“Um . . . yes?” I replie...
2021-12-28 18:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post“To dare is to do . . . to fear is to fail.”
John Goddard
As Yoda once wisely said ‘Do or do not. There is no try.’ I would either be succeeding or I wouldn’t. I wondered to myself how I had ended up here ag...
2021-12-25 04:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostA little light piano music Kai plays and composes in his mind fortress when thinking sometimes. Short and sweet an original composition.
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
Not sure why I was entertaining the idea but . . . “Needs to be higher and closer to the water to be safer.” Wondering whether...
“Catalyst, a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change, or a person or thing that precipitates an event.”
Oxford Languages
Maybe, I would be b...
2021-12-22 02:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post“The home is the greenhouse in which baby humans are nurtured until they are strong enough to withstand the elements outside.”
Rick Boyer
Ever since the anger, over our treatment, had erupted from mother when she ...
2021-12-18 18:15:46 +0000 UTC View Post