The Well of Mimir

The Dark Sun inspired story When Kritha Met Misha is an old piece from around seven years ago that I recently realized I hadn’t put up on the Well yet. My friends at Dark Sun Brazil long ago honored me by making a version translated into Portuguese available as a PDF, but the English version has been offline until now.

The story Misha’s Rejection–found here on the Well–is the prequel to it, though written afterwards. There are a third (a prequel to the prequel) and fourth (a sequel) part to the story I’ve worked on but have not finished or posted.

Two things: one, since no one is using the rating system, I’ll start it off and mark the stories about where I think they are for me (I’ve started doing this). Two, I’ve realized that with the spate of incomplete stories I’ve put up here, I need to mark them out from the finished ones, and the easiest way to do this seems to be adding a new category tag (incomplete). I should probably mark the Dragonfly & Cricket pseudo-serial entries out as well.

So, what about new fiction? Or finishing some of the incompletes? Pretty busy with illustration work right now, and I know folks are looking at that — rather than this, which seems to me to be an empty wasteland through which none are passing — so maybe eventually unless someone prods me into it sooner.

Around a year after my last post to the Well, I’ve added two new stories. One is another piece in the Cricket & Dragonfly serial, the other is another concept piece with no ending yet. But hey, at least I’m writing again.

As you can see, I have two new stories in-progress. Instead of spreading each story over multiple posts, I will post additions to each entry then post an administrative update with an anchor-link to the addition. I will continue working on each story as time (and inspiration) permit — if you wish, you can also comment on them and tell me which you’d prefer I focus on!

I realize there hasn’t been any content here in months. I must confess to having hit a dry spell, a slump, writer’s block — at least regarding shorts. When this changes, you’ll see content here. I may just need to refill the creative well.

I’ve made some minor edits to The Ogres & the Stars to hopefully improve the pacing and flow. Also, if you’ve had trouble posting comments or anything on the site lately, that bug should be fixed. Please let me know if you have any problems.

I’ve just added a new ratings feature and if it sees enough use, I will add a “Favorites” page. Note that I will be playing with the code and positioning a bit, so be forewarned it may change or ratings could be wiped until I make the feature permanent. Currently, anyone can rate a story, though I would like to be able to restrict the ratings for Members Only materials to members only (since they’re the only ones who can actually read and thus effectively rate such), but I’m still trying to work out how to do that. Questions or problems, let me know.

This week’s story was inspired by this homemade chess set some friends pointed me towards, though it took a year to find an end to the story.

I am looking for individuals interested in reading the full story who would be willing to provide feedback and critique. If you would be willing to do so, please e-mail me to that effect.

I have changed the About page to better reflect the current reality of the site and my thought process. I also made a minor update to the Membership page.