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Book review: The tower of Gods

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Tomas

The third book of ‘The Lost Prophecy’ series by D.K. Holmberg is leading to the first major showdown of the series while keeping the pace and revealing more pieces of the complex backstory.

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Hiker’s self-inspiration: landscape

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Tomas

Continuing with my self-inspiration posts, I’ll share a few cases of the landscape inspiring me.

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Types of Self-published authors

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Tomas

Over the almost three years since buying my Kindle, I’ve seen various kinds of self-published books and their authors. Today, I’ll look back at that.

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2/2019 Writing update

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Tomas

The shortest mont of the year is over and so it’s another time to reflect on what I’ve managed to do when it comes to my writing.

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Book review: Warrior mage

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Tomas

Following ‘The Threat of Madness’ I read earlier this month, the second book of ‘The Lost Prophecy’ series shows much deeper story. As the main characters travel far with their missions, much of backstory is developed. More than I thought.

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Clichés: the timing of pain

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Tomas

I guess anyone had seen this before: a hero goes through all kinds of hell and feels no pain but when it’s over and someone (usually an attractive female that ends up being his romantic interest) takes care of his wounds, all that pain comes back to them. Today, I’ll look at this closely.

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E-books: thoughts about highlighting

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Tomas

In today’s post, I’ll share my thoughs about one of the main feature of e-books: highlighting.

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Hiker’s self-inspiration: mishaps and weather

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Tomas

After some time, I’m returning to the topic of taking inspiration for my writing from my hikes. This time, I’ll focus on the inspiration given by weather and unexpected issues. The first post I made on this topic can be read here, while a post about some mishaps here.

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Writing: how to (not) get pirated

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Tomas

This post will be a bit lighthearted while trying to be informative on the topic of e-book piracy.

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Forging a character: Shianna

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Tomas

This time, I’ll share the background of creating a character who eventually became more involved with the story than I expected – though, in reality, I probably should’ve seen that coming.

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