This is a story I wrote for my creative writing class this semester. It also serves as backstory for one of my current projects--it takes place between the first and second books of the fantasy series. Tiernan's relationship with food in this story is obviously fictionalized in a lot of ways, but aspects of it … Continue reading A Tiny Glass Bottle
Fantasy
Character Analysis in Children’s Media – Part One
A few years ago, I attended a reception with the president and other faculty members of my university. One of these distinguished members asked the group of students what the best book we'd read recently was. Other students predictably mentioned classics or books that could be considered literary fiction, and I considered doing the same myself. … Continue reading Character Analysis in Children’s Media – Part One
“A Journey Through the Underdark”
A Dungeons & Dragons storyFor those of you familiar with the role play game Dungeons & Dragons, it is typical to write up some form of backstory for the character that you are playing in the game. My character for one of my latest campaigns had dissociative identity disorder--colloquially known as multiple personality disorder. The … Continue reading “A Journey Through the Underdark”