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Recently read The Sign of the Four, the second of the Sherlock Holmes novels, and decently enjoyed it! I’m a big fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories, but I wasn’t a fan of his first novel (A Study in Scarlet). In general, I prefer mystery short stories over longer novels. I’m not sure why that’s the case, but perhaps it’s because it’s easier to be surprised by a mystery the shorter it is because the reader has less time and fewer clues to piece it together for themselves.

After diving into this book on the art and making of The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the wild, I really want to make a 400-page guide of my own fantasy worlds now…

I was gifted this book for Christmas, since the Lion King (1994) is one of my favorite movies AND I was also gifted tickets to the touring Broadway musical (which I saw this past Saturday!). This particular book dives into the behind-the-scenes of the 2019 remake.

I love learning about artists’ creative process. That’s why I picked up the Arcadian Wild annotated lyric books the last time they were in town.

New blog is live: Lessons on Narrative Voice from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events!

As I mentioned in my writing update a week and a half ago, I recently reread Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events as a part of trying to crack the secret of writing a strong, distinct narrative voice for Whitman Court. My aim with Whitman Court was to write the stories with a clever, omniscient Narrator who comments on the events of the story, which I typically refer to as an “intrusive narrator.” Yet I struggled to find a good balance between this Narrator being overbearing versus not present enough. So, for inspiration, I turned to one of the best examples of this type of narrative voice: A Series of Unfortunate Events. It was really fun to dive into this type of reading research, as I’ve never read a book series to focus solely on growing in a specific aspect of my writing.

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