Thousands of years ago, Everyone’s Mother - the ancient goddess of creation - vanished. But not before she spoke a prophecy foretelling the changing of the world at the hands of her daughter... #FantasyReads #highfantasy #EpicFantasy #FREE today! amazon.com/dp/B0CFTVYYXG

Eyes of a Stranger - the first book in the Aruvalia Chronicles - is #FREE until Monday! ~When the innocent are threatened, a warrior must defend. Even if it means risking everything...~ amazon.com/dp/B0CV54W13S #epicfantasy

Wrapped up the first novel of Ghost Path on Monday and feel pretty good about it. The plot developed nicely and feels pretty natural. I've even got a good idea of how to handle the transition to book 2. Now I wait and see how big a disaster it feels during edits XD #amwriting #WritingCommunity

It's that time of year again where I remember to talk about the primary thing I do on my blog ;) Here's what projects I've been working on in 2025! megancutler.net/2025/09/2025... #MondayBlogs

This might be the latest in the year I have ever kept the AC running. Finally turned it off this morning and opened a window. Is this the first whiff of fall?!

Reading over my slightly older work (from 3-4 years ago) after delving deeply into something I wrote last year made me realize how much my style has changed and how much I've learned about navigating transitions and descriptions. It's pretty cool to see how I've grown :3 #amwriting #WritingCommunity

I'm not sure why, but I've been positively buzzing with crafty energy lately. Now that I've decided to tackle my own fully custom cross stitch patterns, I have SO MANY ideas! :D

It's just a sleepy normal day in Silvergarden, Aruvalia's capital city... so why does the captain of the princess's royal guard feel as if something dangerous is in the air? megancutler.net/2025/09/my-l... #MondayBlogs

I have noticed that the carrier that most often delivers to our house just marks all of their packages as delayed by default now, even if they're on schedule or early. I guess that's just easier than dealing with people complaining about stuff not arriving more quickly.

Lately, every time I adjust my schedule to try to lessen the amount of words I need to fit into a day to reach my goals, the scenes grow longer, so I end up writing way more than anticipated and about as much as I was trying to avoid o_o #amwriting #WritingCommunity

The most frustrating thing about cross stitch is when you've just sat down and gotten into a nice rhythm with the stitches - and then your dang thread tangles and snaps when you're trying to untangle it x.x

My next major WIP takes place inside the ultimate liminal space. What is liminal space, you ask? It is any place that sits on the threshold between two spaces. It represents the state of transition. And there's way more to it than I thought! megancutler.net/2025/09/the-... #MondayBlogs

I have finally started making a concerted effort to frame some of the pictures we brought back from England (10 years ago) and it feels really nice to see some of them in frames even if it's a bit of a process.

It's been awhile since I looked so heavily forward to a Friday, but this week has been a rough one. I'm looking forward to a brief break ^^;;

Even though I still think of him as my "new" computer, Langdale has been around for a year now. And though I still live in constant fear of sudden PC death, I have noticed how much easier it is to get work done when I don't have to constantly rebuild my production environment...

I was finally able to get my account set up with ISBN Canada and just having an official government website list me as an active publisher feels so official 🥹 #amwriting #WritingCommunity

When my Twitch Chat helped me raise funds to replace my computer, I promised I'd turn the main character of my Aruvalia Chronicles into a pony and write a My Little Pony fanfic. And so I did! XD Here's a look at the converted characters ;) megancutler.net/2025/09/intr... #MondayBlogs

We are on day 5 in my town of glancing out the window and feeling like the apocalypse is upon us. Last night, the moon glowed orange-red from the smoke and ash in the air. Today, the dimmest outlines of the mountains are back - but for how long?

In case you missed it, Book 4 of Everyone's Child - Anyone's Crazy Aunt - is finally here! ~Elayith believed nothing would happen on her pilgrimage. Now she stands at the end with more questions than she had at the beginning~ amazon.com/dp/B0FNVMBNGH #EpicFantasy #NewRelease

Seven chapters deep into my new project and my characters have already gone off plan XD #amwriting #WritingCommunity

I abandoned my first attempt to write Everyone's Child after only 11,000 words. Sometimes I think about how it might have turned out if I finished it back then. Here's a look at some of the biggest changes: megancutler.net/2025/09/intr... #MondayBlogs

In a burst of organization, I finally started picking colors for the celestial octopus cross stitch pattern I cobbled together from scratch. It's my first fully custom project, so I'm really looking forward to getting started on it :3

Pictures of the puzzle I did during my week off. It's called "This is Halloween" from Piece Relax. I love these because, once they're all snapped together, you can just pick them up and walk around with them! 2,000 pieces, took roughly a week to finish :3

Gotta love writing the first line of a brand new project :3 #amwriting #WritingCommunity

The universe has given me lots of little reminders lately that I'm bad at taking my own advice. I constantly tell other people to go easy on themselves and not beat themselves up over deadlines and limitations... and guess what I'm doing to myself in the meantime? ^^;;

The time has come at last - here is Part 2 of the story crafted by my Twitch Chat, which unveils the big reward both my chat and the characters they created were so excited about ;) megancutler.net/2025/08/free... #MondayBlogs

Took a week off to rest my brain and do a 2,000 piece puzzle. It was a nice and for the most part relaxing time, and now I'm even more excited about the 4,000 piece puzzle I have stashed away for Christmas break :3

Wrote a scene yesterday that was shorter than anything I've written in awhile. But I also ended up loving it more than anything else I've written in awhile. It's been such a rough patch with edits lately, I forgot how good it feels to fall in love with what I'm doing. #amwriting #WritingCommunity

Woke up this morning and didn't feel like a mini disaster for the first time in a week ^^;; Time to catch up on all the things I fell behind on while I was sick!

I turned 40 this year. And I'm not going to lie... it feels pretty weird ^^;; megancutler.net/2025/08/ive-... #MondayBlogs

I love a story that can rip my soul out and stomp all over it... I just wasn't expecting a giant mech anime packed full of sex jokes to be the thing that did it.

I took a week off in July AND I'm working on late-pass edits, so I don't expect high word counts for the month. Still, I'm quite pleased with my progress :3 #amwriting #WritingCommunity #WordCounts

Every now and then I find a line in my own work that hits me so hard or resonates so deeply that it leaves me in awe for a second or two. And those are the moments when I feel like maybe, just maybe, I might actually be good at what I do ^^;; #amwriting #WritingCommunity

I allowed my Twitch Chat to suggest elements for a story. Their submissions were as wild as you think - but I didn't shy away from delivering on my promise ;) Here is Part 1 of their story! megancutler.net/2025/08/free... #MondayBlogs

Pleasantly surprised to discover that the Brave Bang Bravern theme is on Spotify XD I can't stop listening to this song. It's such a freaking bop!

A friend introduced me to the Brave Bang Bravern anime last night and WOW XD What a wild ride. I don't think I have ever laughed so hard at an anime in my life. We've only watched the first 4 episodes so far, but I'm looking forward to experiencing more!

Look at this cutie! 🥰Our first baby succulent pushing through the soil to find the sun!

One of our baby succulents has started to develop leaves and I'm unreasonably excited about it! 😍

Never have I ever written a follow up blog so fast in my life. But as soon as I started doubting whether long-running TV shows should stop sharply raising the stakes, we watched season 6 of Buffy, and now I'm convinced... megancutler.net/2025/07/the-... #MondayBlogs

When you sit a lot, good posture is important. I know that, because I've trained myself to have one. But every so often it seems I forget how to have a good posture and screw up my back and arms again >.> Seems we have arrived at a point in that cycle, so guess who is being extra careful this week!

Our first attempts at propagating succulents have developed roots 🥰 I'm still in mostly unknown territory here, so my main goal is just not to kill them. But I'm hoping in a few months we'll have some extra succulents to add to our spiral :3

While I'm happy to hear that Criminal Minds Evolution is getting another season, I really wish they'd drop Voit as a character. I can't imagine there's anything more to do with him that they haven't already crammed into the last 3 seasons x.x

Now that the Prompt Novel is finished, here's a final updated list of all the prompts and chapters - plus my thoughts on how the project went! megancutler.net/2025/07/free... #MondayBlogs

When something breaks on the backend of my website and no one wants to be responsible for fixing it 🫠 (Turns out it was on the host's side, despite all their efforts to point at my plugins.)

Way back in the long ago, when I first started watching anime, no one liked dubs because they were pretty terrible; translations were bad, voicing was all over the place and often the story was just nonsensically changed.

It should come as no surprise that my word counts are slightly smaller in the summer because I take some time away ;) But June saw the end of several projects - and I'm pleased about that! #amwriting #WritingCommunity #WordCounts

One question I get asked a lot on my streams is: what information should you give to a cover artist. The answer is: it depends on the cover and the artist. But here's my guide to working with a cover artist! megancutler.net/2025/07/what... #MondayBlogs

Whelp, the power went off today for the first time since I got my UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) set up and it worked perfectly. I was able to save and shut down without any loss of productivity or risk of hardware damage. It's a huge relief to have that reassurance!

Sometimes it still amazes me that a couple of extra paragraphs can entirely change the tone of a scene or smooth a transition between moments. But then, awe over the power of words is one of the reasons I do what I do. #amwriting #WritingCommunity

My mother-in-law helped us craft this beautiful succulent garden while she was visiting :3 Can't wait to see how it looks once they spread a bit!