#AprilWorldbuilders Day 17 The drakeddar are friendly with the sylpheddar, as are the oreddar--mostly. Whenever things get bad, the oreddar blame the sylpheddar. After all, they started the war, didn't they? #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 17 No comic-relief antagonist this time. #WritingCommunity

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 17 Next (neglected) WIP is the sequel to The Dust Behind the Door- Fire That's Closest Kept. I have a fairly massive TBR list. I usually grab a book from the "pile." #WriringCommunity #BookSky

#AprilWorldbuilders Day 16 When Danny travels to Empaeria, he takes the form of a sylpheddar. The sylpheddar are universally hated, discriminated against--even by their allies. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 16 Danny doesn't encounter a "second in command." Though he does discover that one of his mean project partners is worse than the other. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 16 The tree that fell was small, easy enough to move. I dragged it aside, sheets of rain parting on my shoulders. My neighbors could use the street again. They would all get home, safe and dry. They came for me anyway. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AprilWorldbuilders Day 15 The Eldest is a council that governs the Margrave Terrace. Danny is glad to meet them! #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 15 Following the war with the sylpheddar, the gnoles made pacts with dark forces to retake and expand their lands. They now do the bidding of their evil overlords. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

My, I've been busy! #FantasyIndiesApril Day 15 I prefer physical reading materials- books, magazines, etc. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 9 As a sylpheddar, Danny moves with a natural balance. His feet seem to find the best place to stand, especially on high mountain trails. Enzo is a gnole and moves with hulking power. Lia always carries herself with grace. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 9 Danny doesn't think Vince Tait is evil, though he certainly is influenced by the evils that creep from Lia's world into ours. Those forces are evil indeed. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 9 Danny and Lia take their friendship for granted. It leads to a big fight. Enzo takes his power for granted. Very little seems to shake him. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 8 In Empaeria the most common people are the Eddar. They share common (deeply ancient) ancestry. They exist as five different tribes (in Comments). #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 8 Vince Tait is the first villain beaten. He's a bully and wants to belittle Danny (and others) just because he can. He's never experienced consequences for these actions until he meets Lia. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 8 I have been known to re-read books. Mostly those books I didn't pay close attention to the first time (my high school required reading) and a few beloved tales. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AprilWorldbuilders Day 7 (Catch Up) In the Azura Forest, Danny eats nightberries. An apothecarist in Clemuns offers to sell Danny and Lia spiceflower, dreamweed, and stiffroot. They decline. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 7 (Catch up) It's hard for fictional villains to top real-world evil. For me, the greatest villain is abstract. It is the sense of righteousness that is felt even as evil is committed. I plan on touching on this concept later in Danny's story. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 7 (Catch Up) Animals Danny notices that animals in Empaeria, animals resemble animals in our world but brightly colored. In Clemunz, he encounters gogaans- horse-like beasts of burden with wide faces. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

I have a good feeling about today.

It's Election Day, Wisconsin!! Get out and VOTE!!!!

#AprilWorldbuilders Day 6 Cleanliness Danny notices that the old city of Clemunz is cleaner (and wealthier) than the newer, outer city. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 6 Twist? A little bit, yeah. #WritingCommunity

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 6 Homelands Danny is from Bayshore, a suburb of Milwaukee. Lia & Enzo are from Empaeria, a fantastic world parallel to our own. Lia is from the Dragonspire Mountains, Enzo is from the lands south of the Gnolsudor River. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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#AprilWorldbuilders Day 5 Architechture The cervad city is inside a giant tree that seemingly grows to meet their needs. Oreddar homes outside Clemunz are mounds of raised earth. The city has more traditional timber and brick architecture atop these berms. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 5 Redemption The bully, Enzo is actually a gnole from Empaeria! He eventually agrees to help Danny and Lia, and even takes an oath with Danny. The two become good friends. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 5 Travel Danny daydreams about traveling to Cancun, or the Mosquitia region of Honduras. But his mom can't even afford to go to Chicago. With Lia (and Enzo), he travels through the veil to the magical world of Empaeria. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AprilWorldbuilders Day 4 Empaeria and our world exist in a state of unconscious commerce. As the veil between them thins, aessence is traded through acts of love and hate, good and evil. Unfortunately, evil is winning... #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 4 Snippet We meet Danny and Miss Unsly. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 4 The main antagonist is evil and hate itself. Whether Vince Tait, Miss Unsly, the cervad, the gnoles, or others, it is these dark motivations that are the core of opposition to Danny and Lia. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

I really hope City loses to like, Southampton next,but this is delicious. #FA #Manchester

#AprilWorldbuilders Day 3 Water Clemunz is located on the Terratorn River which leads to the Tomerran Sea. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 3 Danny meets Miss Unsly first. She makes him do a group project with Maggie Roth and Shaynee McGuire, two girls who want nothing to do with him. #WritingCommunity

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 3 Title Each book in "The Dragon and the Bard" series is related to a different Shakespearean play. "The Dust Behind the Door" comes from a line in Act V of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Shakespeare

#AprilWorldbuilders Day 2 (Catch Up) The Cervad are ruled by a king. Danny doesn't see the government in Clemunz, just the city guard. Bayshore High School is run by the Vice Principal, Mr. Sanders #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 2 (Catch Up) Vince Tait plays for the Bayshore HS Sharks football team. In Empaeria, Danny helps his best friend Lia fight the "forces of darkness." #WritingCommunity

#AprilWorldbuilders Day 1 (Catch Up) "The Dust Behind the Door" In the world of Empaeria, Danny is captured by the Cervad who live in a giant, silvery tree. In the city of Clemunz, he visits the library to find a needed map. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#AntagonistApril Day 1 (Catch Up) "The Dust Behind the Door" Danny encounters two main antagonists: the school bully, Vince Tait and Miss Unsly, his Social Studies teacher. In the world of Empaeria, he meets many more antagonists: Gnoles, Cervad, and a wicked Poruk sorcerer. #WritingCommunity

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 2 "The Dust Behind the Door" takes place over the course of a school year, starting in earliest autumn and ending in just as summer arrives. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 1 (Catch Up) I'm Josh. My book, "The Dust Behind the Door" is a MG/YA portal fantasy. It's the first in a series, "The Dragon and the Bard." It takes its inspiration from Shakespeare and the 80s Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Raccoon abatement Sunday.

Being patient is very difficult for me today.

New buddy action-comedy movie idea: Rollins and Ru. IYKYK

WISCONSIN! Early in-person voting starts today! Find your polling place and make your voice heard. Election Day is April 7. www.vote.org

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I should feel better than I do. Things are objectively good. Things are objectively great. So why do I feel like shit?

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.