CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Gulvane and the Dragon is this month's first short story release, and it's now available on pre-order. Releasing on the fourteenth, this fantasy short story explores the idea of an elven lifetime being divided into rooms, and couples it to the idea that dragons choose their familiars with care. What's it About? Gulvane and the Dragon is a short story about an elven wizard ready to transition to his fifth lifetime, a dragon who's always wanted an elf of his own, and memories locked away. When the dragon wants to unleash the pain of his past, Gulvane faces a choice: Take the beast's offer, and risk his past lives tearing him apart, or walk away. How does it Start? Gulvane walked the corridors of his mind, going deep into himself to remember who he was, and explore who he might become. The years of an elf were long, many more times longer than the span of an average mortal, and Gulvane was reaching another century, his third as a wizard, his seventh as an elf. In t...

Have you ever wondered what a writer does with their time? Or thought how lucky a writer was to just have to jot down a few words each day before getting some time off? Well, here's a really brief overview of what this writer's week looked like, last week. I'm pretty happy with it, in that it was fairly busy and quite productive. I completed a large work-for-hire project, finished the second book in the Strays of Lunar One series (which ended up being 20,000 words longer than expected), started a short story  for my next project, that decided it was going to be a young adult science-fiction-fantasy novel, and then started a second short story that agreed to remain a short story (for which I am grateful). I also recorded a mix of game-play, writer-at-work, and writer-reads-the-first-chapter videos, which will need to be processed and scheduled, this week, and did some research on other games, and some more research on the background needed for my next work-for-hire and pers...