Hey everyone! If you subscribe to my newsletter, you would have received a notice this past Monday that The King's Eyes is now live on my website and available for download through Bookfunnel! I'm so excited to be able to share this story with everyone. Dalon and Kari, and the challenges they face, are quite different from any I've written before. But I'm hoping that their story resonates with you.

Hey folks! This year I had the opportunity to participate in the Inkling's Challenge over on Tumblr. If you don't know what this is, it's an annual challenge to write a Christian fantasy story. Participants get split into three teams, and based on those teams, they have a choice of two pre-assigned genres. I got sorted into Team Chesterton, and I decided to write an Intrustive Fantasy.

This is a bit of a hot-take, because I know there's this unspoken chasm between those in creative fields and those in technical fields. But today I'm going to propose that software developers and engineers are creators too.

Hi guys! I got a nifty new feature for you today. All of my web stories will now be available for download through Bookfunnel as epubs, mobi, or pdfs. So for any of you who would like the chance to read my stories but don't like reading through the web, you can now get a copy to put on your eReader.

The short version? It was extremely difficult, much more challenging than I assumed it would be at the outset. More times than I am proud to say, I wanted to abandon the project altogether. How many people will read a Filipino high-fantasy story anyway? How much time and effort am I wasting working on something few people will read, when I could be working on a new story in English? These thoughts often crossed my mind.

If you follow me on Tumblr, I've posted about my current WIP twice, although they're both just small sneak peeks. On this blog, I mentioned the idea for this WIP in a previous post, but it was still in the very early stages of ideation. So here's an entire post that hopefully gives a better introduction of Metalmade.

I'm always on the lookout for new things to try to improve my writing skills and my process. I follow blogs by other writers or editors who like to share advice on these topics, and I have to admit, they're usually a hit or miss for me. Some worked well, others were frustrating to implement from the start. I want to share some of my experiences, and why some advice worked for me while others did not.

At the beginning of the month, I sat down and started the first ever Tagalog draft of my story, The Malicious Wind. In the last year, I've been trying to hone my Tagalog skills by reading a lot more in this language. So while I didn't think the translation process would be smooth sailing, I thought I could churn out perhaps a chapter a night of translations.

Before I jump into the meat of this post, let me say that I hope you are all doing okay. Wherever you are, I know there is a lot happening.

"Show, Don't Tell" is one of those really popular writing advice that I keep struggling with. Maybe I just haven't read enough guides on how to do it well, but it's probably safe to say that at this point, I'm not a fan of this advice. My biggest issue with it is that people who give this advice rarely illustrate how much to show.