Category: Excerpts
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Kora’s first raid, part 2: Excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”
This week’s excerpt continues last week’s action-packed raid by the Crimson League on a group of sorcerer Zalski Forzythe’s elite guardsmen, hoping to discover his long-term goals and what he has them searching For. What will they discover? In the meantime, Menikas had helped Ranler hoist the other man to his seat for Lanokas to…
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Kora’s first raid, part 1: Excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight For Hope”
Monday means an excerpt here on the blog! Today I’m excited to share the first excerpt from an action scene, showing magic and civil war at play. This is from Kora’s first raid as a member of the Crimson League, the organized resistance against sorcerer-dictator Zalski Forzythe. Three veteran members of the league, all men,…
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The ancient sorcerers: excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”
Kora Porteg slammed her brother’s window shut as the autumn wind’s whistle died with a choke. The curtains fell limp against the wall. Kora didn’t usually attack windows in the quaint cottage she’d called home all her seventeen years, but she was alarmed at the state of this one. “Don’t leave your window open to…
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Trouble at the schoolhouse–Excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”
I’m excited to share a second excerpt from my upcoming sword and sorcery, action-adventure fantasy release. In this excerpt, Kora meets her brother on his way home from school (Zac is eleven. Kora is seventeen). It’s a fun scene because it reveals so much: Kora’s love for Zac, her fear for him, the uncertainty and…
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Kora finds out about Zalski Forzythe: excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”
Yesterday, we explored the narrative technique of in media res and what inspired the character of Kora Porteg and her brother, Zacry. One fun aspect of that technique is that it allows for flashback scenes: such as when protagonist Kora, seventeen years old, reflects on the moment when she first learned that sorcerer Zalski Forzythe…
Creative Writing with the Crimson League 