In order to celebrate the month and in a blatant attempt to lure in fitful_fire  with song, I give you a one two punch of the storytelling lyrics of The Decemberists. I only discovered this band a couple of years ago when I saw a video for '16 Military Wives', but I instantly fell in love with it and just about all their songs. They have an intriguing ( Read more... )

So I'm done with 'The Ninth Chevron' and staring at a little text file full of ideas for the next, at that point unnamed, story which had to actually add some conflict to my stories. I needed a villain, and it wasn't going to be the Lucian Alliance. In the end, conflict drives stories.

( *scratches his chin and launches into a lecture* )