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Category: Short Stories

202212.31202212.28 lloydearickson Continuing Projects, Projects, Series, Short Stories

Blood Magic S3:E12: Balancing Act, Part Two Release

Did I do it? Did I stick the landing on this three-year series, some three hundred sixty thousand words of story? Only you, dear reader, can answer that question, but I think I might have done it.

202212.28202212.22 lloydearickson Continuing Projects, Projects, Series, Short Stories

Blood Magic S2:E12: Pifecha, Part Two Re-Release

It might sound from those two paragraphs like I don't think this story is any good, which is not true - it is quite enjoyable, for all my above griping and critiquing.

202212.10202212.08 lloydearickson Continuing Projects, Projects, Series, Short Stories

Blood Magic Season 3 Bonus Episode: A Spiritual Journey Release

Is this doing that thing that authors are always accused of, where I fake readers out with a character's 'death' only to have them return later? Not exactly.

202211.30202211.23 lloydearickson Continuing Projects, Projects, Series, Short Stories

Blood Magic S3:E11: Balancing Act, Part One Release

It's finally happening: the series finale, the last Blood Magic story. This is where we see if my efforts to improve my endings have paid off, because I don't only need to satisfactorily conclude a two-part episode, or a season, but the entire series that you've been following for three years.

202211.15202211.09 lloydearickson Continuing Projects, Projects, Series, Short Stories

Blood Magic S2:E11: Pifecha, Part One Re-Release

I didn't have many changes to make when I sat down and did revisions on Pifecha's first part, which is mostly a good thing - it means that I wrote a good story in the first place.

202211.09202211.03 lloydearickson New Projects, Projects, Short Stories

Dragon’s Hoard Release and Author’s Note

It takes a certain arrogance to be an author, an arrogance to believe that you have stories worth telling, stories that other people should want to read and enjoy, and, perhaps more importantly, an arrogance to keep believing that through what is inevitably a lengthy process of submission and rejection before publication.

202210.31202210.26 lloydearickson Continuing Projects, Projects, Series, Short Stories

Blood Magic S3:E10: Principles Release

It doesn’t come up a lot in my writing on the site, but I’m something of a Star Trek fan, and the style of storytelling utilized by that franchise was certainly in the back of my mind while I was writing the outline for the Blood Magic series.  Two episodes particularly stand out for that influence, and both of them involve Pifecha: Strange Lands, and this one.

202210.15202210.06 lloydearickson Continuing Projects, Projects, Series, Short Stories

Blood Magic S2:E10: Older Than Stone Re-Release

To that end, though, one of this episode's strengths is what is left unsaid. My hope is that the reader is left with all kinds of questions about the nature of the Gruordvwrold, the Ipemav, and the history of Lufilna.

202210.05202210.04 lloydearickson Projects, Short Stories

Executioner Release and Author’s Note

Because of the Gilgamesh inspiration, I decided to attempt to write the story in the same style as the Epic of Gilgamesh, and though I do not know for certain, I suspect that is where I lost my readers.

202209.30202209.02 lloydearickson Continuing Projects, Projects, Series, Short Stories

Blood Magic S3:E9: Drive On Release

Nothing truly Earth-shattering happens in this story.  Oh, there’s the magic Gruordvwrold rocks, which might show up again, and we get to see some of Evry’s scheming, but this episode is meant to stand alone and just be an adventure that happens.

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