2025 Writing Log, Part 24
Jun. 21st, 2025 07:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I’m working on the ninth and final chapter of What Dreams May Come, a Bloodborne-themed Legend of Zelda AU. I’d previously written a large chunk of this chapter, but I decided to scrap it. And that’s cool. I’m not in any rush. Just enjoying the journey.
- I also got some of the earlier chapters cleaned up and ready to post. As much as I’m enjoying the journey, I’m starting to think that I’d like this to be finished sooner rather than later.
- The process of writing this story has been helping me renew my appreciation of Bloodborne, and I applied to submit a story to the Hunter’s Mark zine. Pitches aren’t due until August, but I’m going to go ahead and start writing my story about the unhinged scholar who ended up becoming Rom (of Vacuous Spider fame).
- To hype myself up, I commissioned the mighty Artwins to design Rom’s human form. The Artwins boys are extremely talented at drawing creepy wizards, and they did a magnificent job at synthesizing a sparse collection of very minimal source material. You can check out their illustration on Tumblr (here).
- Speaking of art commissions that are gorgeous and brilliant, the ever-amazing Frankiesbugs created the cover art for my upcoming botanical horror fiction zine! I’m going to hold myself back from writing an essay on how much I love this illustration, but you can see the art itself on Tumblr (here). I have a powerful feeling that this cover is going to be a strong seller.
- Inspired by the fantastic cover, I finished one story for the zine and got about halfway through another. It’s really nice to write original fiction without worrying whether it’s good enough to submit somewhere, and it’s always a pleasure to be fueled by the power of visual art.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about Kumi Kimura’s Someone to Watch Over You. The back cover of this novella promises a heart-warming story about the pandemic, but it’s actually quite weird and disturbing. Which is good, honestly. The pandemic was indeed weird and disturbing. I might have gotten a little too personal in my review, but I did my best to explain why I think it’s important to tell unpleasant stories about that particular moment in history.
- As something like a color test for an upcoming drawing of Ganondorf, I drew a flowering of amanita mushrooms, which I posted on Tumblr (here). I really enjoy making these stupid little botanical illustrations.
Happy Summer Solstice ☀️
Please enjoy this light-filled painting of my dogs:
This art is by Titsay, who is just as sweet in person as she is in her art.
- I also got some of the earlier chapters cleaned up and ready to post. As much as I’m enjoying the journey, I’m starting to think that I’d like this to be finished sooner rather than later.
- The process of writing this story has been helping me renew my appreciation of Bloodborne, and I applied to submit a story to the Hunter’s Mark zine. Pitches aren’t due until August, but I’m going to go ahead and start writing my story about the unhinged scholar who ended up becoming Rom (of Vacuous Spider fame).
- To hype myself up, I commissioned the mighty Artwins to design Rom’s human form. The Artwins boys are extremely talented at drawing creepy wizards, and they did a magnificent job at synthesizing a sparse collection of very minimal source material. You can check out their illustration on Tumblr (here).
- Speaking of art commissions that are gorgeous and brilliant, the ever-amazing Frankiesbugs created the cover art for my upcoming botanical horror fiction zine! I’m going to hold myself back from writing an essay on how much I love this illustration, but you can see the art itself on Tumblr (here). I have a powerful feeling that this cover is going to be a strong seller.
- Inspired by the fantastic cover, I finished one story for the zine and got about halfway through another. It’s really nice to write original fiction without worrying whether it’s good enough to submit somewhere, and it’s always a pleasure to be fueled by the power of visual art.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about Kumi Kimura’s Someone to Watch Over You. The back cover of this novella promises a heart-warming story about the pandemic, but it’s actually quite weird and disturbing. Which is good, honestly. The pandemic was indeed weird and disturbing. I might have gotten a little too personal in my review, but I did my best to explain why I think it’s important to tell unpleasant stories about that particular moment in history.
- As something like a color test for an upcoming drawing of Ganondorf, I drew a flowering of amanita mushrooms, which I posted on Tumblr (here). I really enjoy making these stupid little botanical illustrations.
Happy Summer Solstice ☀️
Please enjoy this light-filled painting of my dogs:
This art is by Titsay, who is just as sweet in person as she is in her art.
