[Nano] I stabbed a boy and I liked it~

As she left, she was unaware that the Eternal Witch had caught up. Neither was Kishan, though the knowledge was brought back to him in a completely unpleasant manner when a spear pierced him, clean through from the back and through the front. He looked down to see the head of a hawthorn spear jutting out from his stomach, covered in his blood. The shock of it drove him to his knees and he fell forward, held up only by the spear driving into the ground.

Excuse me while I chortle with glee. You have no idea how much effort it took for me to write this. And yes, this IS a Nano excerpt why do you ask?

Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.

[Meme] Making Worlds

In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you’d like to share?
Considering the world where my stories take place, there’s only one world where I really did spend time building up the entire world, which would be Jiat. There was that unnamed world where I tried writing the story as though it was a game project, but that kinda failed after a little while.

The main thing I learnt was to look at your world as a platform to tell a story. It’s a stage you can set elements in, but once they’re there, they’re set. Don’t change them.

Or something like that.

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Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.