Image demonstrating how snow in a parking lot can be used my fantasy writers and map illustrators with the words "as the weather turns cold, remember: if you are designing a fictional island, try taking a few photos in the grocery store parking lot"

What's especially great about this method is it allows for wind and erosion and gravity (etc) to form a real, mountainous 3D shape that mimics a much larger island

From Nathan Pyle on using snow in a parking lot to illustrate fictional lands.

#illustrators #maps #writing #strangebeings

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Strange Beings PROLOGUE by Dennis Lessing A taste of what's to come

#strangebeings is not being published on Itch.io anymore, but you can get the prologue for PWYW (starting price is 1,99) at the following link! dennis-lessing.itch.io/strange-bein... every little bit helps 💜

Pagina 78 di 131, 33333 parole

Yesterday I had the nice happenstance to reach exactly 33333 words total on my book #StrangeBeings. It's so nice when numbers are *this* specific :)

Vector art of a guy with an orange shirt getting run over by a blue chevrolette

Post a spoiler from your WIP(s) with no context #StrangeBeings #sb #wips #bookwips

White text on black background. The font is Times New Roman and two words (labored and cold) are underlined in blue. The text reads thusly; "The creature felt both unbearably hot and terribly cold as it collapsed on the ground. Its breathing grew labored and he muffled a scream, wings beating frantically against the ground. While on its knees shaking from pain and chill, it grabbed its bed sheet. Bony spikes were pushing out of its shoulders like a torture device. With a great deal of effort, it got on his legs. It was shivering from the cold and its eyesight was becoming blurry. It could feel something inside him pumping and growing, struggling to gain purchase. Adrenaline coursed through its veins, making its suffering more acute. It wasn’t just that though – something deep inside it felt wrong. Something was going wrong. Something was going wrong. Something is wrong. It covered his face. Something caved in like mold. A viscous substance eroded away its features."

Puberty is a pretty intense ordeal! #Strangebeings #SB

#StrangeBeings writing is going really well! I did a facelift for the diff chapters (editing). December 31st is when the trailer will come out. Promoting a still being written book is a way to bring good fortune, isn't it? I hope so at least :P

"[Specimen 14] had gotten away. He was free. He didn’t have that thing under his shoulder anymore, and with each step he took he was closer and closer to family. He would find his siblings, and it would’ve been as if he had never gone missing. Over the course of his walk, the terrain changed. The pillars left him for a vast nothingness of sand and soft carpet, and eventually he reached those pillars again. He was somewhere else and it was dark. He was safe. Now he just had to find the exit to this room. It was easier said than done though, because not even seven cycles of restless walking got him to the other end of this place."

Here is a scene from Specimen's POV from my book #StrangeBeings. Go #WIPPIT!

#SF #SFF #YA #S #FBW

The cover for "Strange Beings". The scene takes place in a glassy field during a rainy night. Specimen 14 (Left), a large humanoid creature with the sets of wings, is shielding Ares (Right), a Black woman wearing a jacket, from the rain. The title is written like a constellation, and the moon dotting the I has a large chunk missing from it.

Two things happen on the night of June 9th, 2025; Soecimen 14 escapes containment and Ares Smalls escapes her abusive home. How will these Strange Beings find themselves?
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#WIPPIT #SF #SFF #YA #S #FBW

Currently ingesting copious quantities of jitter liquid
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Good Saturday Morning! I'm partial to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia, but all of Nathan W. Pyles' states are hilariously great. He's also the #strangebeings guy

White text on black background. The title, in red, reads "Prologue; Awakening" Prologue; Awakening. The page talks about the POV character waking up inside a strange environment. The people around him talk to each other, with one of them very proud of their work (note; the dialogue is not in any brackets, and is part of the narration)

#StrangeBeings tonight!
Here is the very first page of my book. Say hi to Specimen! :)
It's the same book I've posted about with #WIPPIT! I'll post more throughout 2025, see ya there! :D

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#caturday