One of my fans This blog post is reposted from my old blog. If you see any weird formatting or mistakes, please let me know! Also the links are old at this point so they might not work! Fans have always interested me. There are many kinds and have been used in the past all…
What I Wrote this week, 10/8/2021
I’ve been working recently on my newest novel, A Desolation of Angels, and I’m excited to share what I wrote this week. It’s been slow snippets here and there since I’ve been writing on my IPhone or IPad recently. I’m a faster writer on my laptop. However BOTH my laptops (one is about 12 years…
What I recently wrote 7/24/2021
Photo by Lisa on Pexels.com Word count: 1184 Genre: Science Fiction Fantasy We have a word war bot set up in our discord channel with some friends and I. While one of my friends was word warring, trying to reach her 60k goal, I decided to join in for several sessions and write with her.…
What I wrote week of 7/3/2021
Girl silhouette Word Count: 2367 Pages: 5 I’m trying to catch my word count up to where it should be this week and got a decent start on it this weekend. I wanted to write more but there’s only so much you can write before you get too tired. I’m including an excerpt from the…
Kitsune Mythology in Inari Shrines
Torii gates at the Inari Shrine As a deity, Inari is one of the most confusing kami of the Japanese Shinto/Buddhism tradition. Primarily, Inari is known as the god of rice and agriculture, but also of fertility, tea, sake, industry, general prosperity, and success. At one point, Inari was also the god of swordsmiths and…
Who were the Saio?
Women held few positions of power in ancient Japan, but one of the notable positions I've come across is the Saio (or the Saiin that I recently discover whom I think served a different shrine). The Saio was the unmarried, young female relative of a Japanese Emperor. She was also known as Itsuki no Miko and…
Japanese Yokai: Kitsune, Pocket foxes, and more
The Kitsune are mythological creatures from Japan. Kitsune is actually the word for "fox" but in this sense it also means "fox-spirit". Kitsunes are normally seen as seductresses (as they're more commonly female) or tricksters but they have a wide range of cool abilities. *Please take this with a grain of salt as I am…
Japanese Women: Mochizuki Chiyome and the Kunoichi
Ever since the West has been in contact with the Japanese, the ever powerful, mysterious, and seemingly magical ninjas have captured Western imagination. Ninjas were a secret group of special forces, high trained, spies in Medieval Japan. Although popularized today, traditionally ninjas commonly did not wear the all black costume that we imagine them in,…
Japanese Women- Lady Saigo
At the end of sixteenth century Japan, a warlord by the name of Tokugawa Ieyasu (Ieyasu being his first name), was able to unite Japan and started a dynasty of shoguns (the military head of Imperial Japan). This era is known as the Edo or Tokugawa Period, lasting for over 200 years until the late…
What I wrote 2/21/2021
Total Words written: 1, 395 This week I've been working on my space opera novel, A Star so Dark and I made sure to spend some time writing. I have a goal to finish it by the end of the summer. I'm about half way through, so I think I'm getting close. I'm including the…
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