Dual Wielding: Blade’s Gauntlet
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#Author August26 | Day 15: Status Update: Blade’s Gauntlet
I’ve been trying to get out of my habit of moving on to another work as soon as something else is occupying my mind … and for the most part, I have! But there’s been some interesting developments when it… Continue reading
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I didn’t agree to July being next week (ᵕ—ᴗ—)
In the last week of July, I’ll be on the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail (BVRT) and so I need to hit my beats within three weeks. This means I need to hard wrap up my unfinished work from June …… Continue reading
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Writing Update: June 2026
We’re about midway through June—Yule is coming much faster than I anticipated—and I am still working on getting the first draft of Blade’s Gauntlet finished( ° ᗜ ° “). At the same time, I’m also working on the first drafts… Continue reading
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Starting Pride with a Serial Project
Happy Pride! This month I will be starting to write the drafts for the first volume of Say Nope to the Trope. I wrote a little about this project in April: Writing a Serial?. I’ve made a lot of changes… Continue reading
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A Writvember Update
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… Continue reading
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May’s Writing Retreat is Over
Dual 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… Continue reading
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Writvember Begins: Writing Blade’s Gauntlet
Dual 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… Continue reading
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Preptober Finished! Writvember Begins! And a Re-Introduction
Hi there! I’m Edald Hopfield ヾ(＾∇＾) I’ve just finished Preptober, preparing myself for a month of drafting Dual Wielding: Blade’s Gauntlet as the new cycle comes in. I am also running another “writing retreat” in my lounge room for the… Continue reading
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Preptober Update: the Evolution of a WIP
At first, Dual Wielding was something of a love letter to the fantasy genre. It was almost a fan-fiction of a variety of books I’d read but with an original setting and characters (original really meaning my own but greatly… Continue reading
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2 Weeks into Preptober
I’m two weeks into Preptober and so far I’ve worked on outlining the novel (getting the skeleton down) and pulling together all of my character information. I have extensive worldbuilding for Dual Wielding that I’ve been working on since 2010… Continue reading