Hello! I’m Edald Hopfield, a writer from Meanjin|Brisbane who has collected way more interests than can fit in my filing cabinet. Come for writing and reading and stay for magic and mayhem (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
One day I hope to publish fiction that transports readers to magickal places where fantasy and reality blend like a beautiful potion.
Current Writing Project: Dual Wielding: Blade’s Gauntlet
Previous Writing Project: Rini & Butler
📝 writing ⌨️
📖 reading 📚
🎲 Dungeons & Dragons 🐉
🧶 arts & crafts
🪻 nature 🌿
🚲 travelling 🏯
🍜 food & drink 🫖
I really like a lot of things
I acknowledge the Turrbal and Yuggera people, the traditional custodians of the land on which I live, work and create. I also pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging. Writing to you from Meanjin|Brisbane.
There are 10 days left of Writvember and I have written only 11,000 words since the writing retreat finished (ᵕ—ᴗ—). It’s so strange how the human body and mind works. I went from writing 43,000 words in about 5 days to having only written 11,000 in the last two weeks. And I’ve been trying! Juggling…
Keep readingMeet Rini 🏃➡️🐦⬛🌳✂️🌃 Rini’s lived on the streets for what feels like the better part of her life. In her early teens, she’s reached the point where she’d rather live alone than under the thumb of another. Always one word from an argument and one argument from a fist-fight. She carries a pair of scissors…
Keep readingHaving my own PC was a game changer, AND I had access to a printer because I lived with an older sister at the time and she’s a teacher. I didn’t print nearly as much but now that I had my own computer, I didn’t feel like I needed to. I saved the ink for…
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I present to you: my Cycle 26 Reading List! Yes, some of these were supposed to be read in the last cycle (ᵕ—ᴗ—) The List 1. She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan 2. Outback Court Reporter, Jamelle Wells 3. Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi 4. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden 5.…
I’m only up to halfway through the twelfth chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Off the top of my head, I can only name two Brisbane authors: Trent Dalton and Melissa Lucashenko. They tried to shove Tim Winton down my throat in university and so I thought he was also from Brisbane but he’s actually from Perth. The reason for the force-feeding was because Cloudstreet is based in a…
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To all my trans brothers, sisters and siblings: may your day be easy today, your existence positive and your hobby time enjoyable (˵ •̀ ᴗ •́ ˵ ) ♡. Have a great one today! And to everyone else, I wish you what you wish for trans people ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜
Keep readingThe rains are on and off but the winds are definitely cooling, sweeping in the fresh air of autumn, winter on the edge of it. This week has been particularly tiring with the double workload but it has made me appreciate my free time more, particularly when I have the energy for it. I’m currently…
Keep readingI started taking on the role of Dungeon Master (DM) around 2018/2019. My first session was a one-shot that ended up being a long-shot and then I DM’d a homebrew campaign through covid. I’ve had the most growth as a DM during my current campaign that I’m running, which I started in September 2024. One…
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There are 10 days left of Writvember and I have written only 11,000 words since the writing retreat finished (ᵕ—ᴗ—). It’s so strange how the human body and mind works. I went from writing 43,000 words in about 5 days to having only written 11,000 in the last two weeks. And I’ve been trying! Juggling…
Keep readingMeet Rini 🏃➡️🐦⬛🌳✂️🌃 Rini’s lived on the streets for what feels like the better part of her life. In her early teens, she’s reached the point where she’d rather live alone than under the thumb of another. Always one word from an argument and one argument from a fist-fight. She carries a pair of scissors…
Keep readingHaving my own PC was a game changer, AND I had access to a printer because I lived with an older sister at the time and she’s a teacher. I didn’t print nearly as much but now that I had my own computer, I didn’t feel like I needed to. I saved the ink for…
Keep readingDual Wielding: Blade’s Gauntlet is projected to have 3 arcs, 8 acts and 32 chapters. So far, I have the drafts for 13 chapters (Arc 1 and just starting Arc 2). I already know that I need to reshuffle and cull down the second and third act, one of the chapters I’ve written needing to…
Keep readingDual Wielding: Blade’s Gauntlet When a pair of brothers find a small child in the snowy border of Blade City, they aren’t sure what the bigger mystery is: how did she get there or why does her face have no definition? As she grows, so does an innate desire to break the corrupted walls around…
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