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Monthly Archives: January 2021

1/2021 Writing update

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Tomas

After the planned break in second half of December, I’ll have to admit that January 2021 brought little progress. But all is not that bad as it may seem…

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Book review: Blackbirch #1

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Tomas

After devouring a 700-page book in a week, I jumped straight into another. This time, the first book in K. M. Allan‘s Blackbirch series. This was a bit farther from my usual reads, but it was a pleasant surprise.

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Book review: Dances of deception

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Tomas

After a reading break that was longer than intended, I returned to JC Kang’s Dragon Songs series, with the third book. Despite being quite a long read, I managed to read the book in a week.

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Hiking: 2021’s head start

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Tomas

After the end of 2020, I haven’t expected much from myself when it comes to my physical activity at the start of 2021. The truth is: I quite surprised myself. Weather being (so far) relatively cooperative is a strong factor, but not the main one.

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Forging a world: fictional anthropology

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Tomas

In today’s post, I’ll share a look at creating humanoid species in a consistent manner, and share bits of the process in my own story.

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