L.S. Engler

the unknown scourge

  • RoW80 Check-In: Snakes and Ladders.

    “‘Your pouch of coins may be as large and hefty as my nutsack, and it still wouldn’t be enough to pay me to work for you.’” Yup, we’re back on Serpent in a Cage excerpts to start out my check-ins. Gilferen really does get all the best lines. It’s been an interesting few days for…

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  • A Cage-y Question.

    Anyone who follows my A Round of Words in 80 Days posts (and thank you, those who do!) will know that I’ve been struggling to figure out what book I want to strive to finish to be the second book I promised myself I’d publish this year. I know I’m itching to get to it,…

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  • RoW80 Update: July 29th.

    “‘I know,’ he said, and his acceptance earned him a kiss. She swooped in like a fresh breeze, the curtain of her dark hair falling over his as her lips touch his. It was a slow, meaningful kiss, all pressure and longing and hunger, and Silver slid his arm around her slender waist because it…

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  • Music That Inspires: Light Up My Room.

    I’m not much of a musical writer. I wish I could be more of a musical writer, but, quite frankly, I love music an awful lot, so when I try to both listen to music and write, I usually get too distracted by the nuances of lyric in my favorite song and forget about the…

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  • RoW80 Check-In: L.S. Engler’s Mini-Writer Workshop.

    “Time is truly a strange thing. The Ana’aek believe it to be a completely unless thing (more or less), a complete construction of Human minds to make their lives more stressful. Most people believe that time in linear, that it moves forward, marches on, steady to the tick of a clock, but the Ana’aek claim…

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  • Brothers & Sisters.

    As I was writing along in the first chapter of The Unknown Scourge yesterday, I realized something interesting. The story was originally conceived as a science fiction revolution type of story, heavily inspired by Final Fantasy VII, which I was playing heavily at the time I thought of the story. It was a tale about…

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  • I Have So Much Work To Do.

    I have so much work to do today, and my coffee maker isn’t even working. I promised myself I would never do this, but I think a keysmash is in order: dsfkhsdlfkhsdklfhsldkfhsdklfhklsdhflskdhfklsdfhskdlfhlsdkf. There. I feel better. And the coffee machine might be working now, too, at least I hope so, and that it will work…

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  • RoW80 Check-In and Return to the World.

    “In the purple dawn, my body is transcendent. It moves with the unconscious grace of a lotus on the water. Though the morning is cool and the breeze quite sweet, my body is cover in a fine sheen of glistening sweat. Every movements is a smooth extension of myself, each step pushes me one bit…

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  • RoW80 Check-In: Sunday, July 8th.

    ”     The details of last night reformed themselves, building the scene again for him. Each dull pain reawakened as he revisited every blow, every smash, pain imbued into each muscle and bone in his body. It all started with an argument, a slammed door, Awngel’s dagger glare. And then there was Hederrick, the man from…

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  • RoW80 Check-In: July 4th/5th.

    Hooray! It’s here! It’s the new Round of A Round of Words in 80 Days! Oh, yesterday was also Independence Day, but….new Round!! (lol, priorities) I posted my goals a little bit ago, and I got an early start on them because my orderly brain demanded that starting on the 2nd would throw everything off,…

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