So, I woke up with a bit of a migraine today. I'm going to take some medication, eat something, and try to sleep it off. I've learned the hard way not to stare at computer screens while I have migraines. If the migraine clears up, which it very well may, I'll see about getting a couple chapte...
2023-06-03 14:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt was either late afternoon or early evening, depending on how generous one felt, when Sen finally settled on his next destination. As he considered the position of the sun in the sky, he decided that he simply wasn’t in the mood to spend yet another night camping. Sen didn’t have the natura...
2023-06-03 01:04:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt took most of a week to get from Ariadne Base to Hasen 5. Edmus Alland spent most of that time in the medical suite. The medication cured the fever, but he was still malnourished. Kalan had planned to get the details of what had happened on the base from him, but Edmus was unconscious most of t...
2023-06-02 15:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostA seething mass of frustration shuddered and thrashed inside Sen’s chest. He had been so close. All he had needed was a few more seconds and then it would have been obvious to any cultivator what was happening. As far as Sen was concerned, that gathering mass of qi should have...
2023-06-02 14:01:43 +0000 UTC View PostZhu Fen was stunned by pure disbelief. She had done as her senior sister had recommended. She waited by the gates for a wandering cultivator of an appropriate cultivation level and, after weeks of wasted time, finally found one. Only to have the man somehow elude her spiritual sense and disappear...
2023-06-02 01:23:14 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so every blue moon or so, I take fifteen minutes off from being productive. You may wonder what a writer like me get up to during all of that luxurious free time. Well, prepare for enlightenment...(it may help your cultivation).
2023-06-01 20:54:31 +0000 UTC
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To the west of Tide’s Reach, in what was normally a quiet little town that no one cared overly much about, a story was spreading. As so many such stories begin, this tale started with a wandering cultivator. In some tellings, this cultivator was a figure of legendary size, driving other men to ...
2023-06-01 18:21:37 +0000 UTC View PostSen had been right. The death of the mayor and his family created havoc in the local government as people vied to seize at least temporary control. The city guards tried to launch an immediate investigation, only to discover that exactly no one was grieved by the loss of the mayor. Worse, their b...
2023-06-01 13:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so I think that I’m going to take a pass on sending out multiple notifications every time I move chapters between tiers. it’ll overwhelm people’s inboxes. Instead, I’ll send out a notification that I’ve updated the welcome/chapters post. That will limit the notifications to one or...
2023-06-01 05:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe walk back to Grandmother Lu’s house was done mostly in silence. Sen had expected that he’d feel different when everything was done, changed somehow by bringing the conflict to a close. Instead, he just felt a vague sense of emptiness and fatigue. It made a certain kind of sense t...
2023-05-31 23:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral of you have indicated that you aren't getting notifications when I publish new chapters or make chapters available for your tier. Sadly, I don't have any real control over notifications. I have alerted Patreon that people aren't getting notifications. Hopefully, they can sort out the prob...
2023-05-31 20:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostKalan stormed onto his bridge and ordered, “Get me someone on the comms!”
“Right away, captain,” said Em, unperturbed by Kalan’s tone of voice.
Kalan paced back and forth in barely controlled fury as Fresia and Petronan stepped onto the bridge and stood there in silence. He ...
2023-05-31 13:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe guards who were there that night would talk about it later. They only spoke of it to each other, in hushed tones, fearing that others would think them mad. Yet, they knew what had happened. For whatever reason, whether it was the heavens sending a rebuke, demons acting out their inscrutable p...
2023-05-31 12:49:51 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, let's start with the artwork. I reached out to an artist who does work that I really like, and they didn't bother to get back to me. I don't know why. Maybe they don't like money? So, I will be reaching out to one of the alternative artists I'd considered and see if they'd like money from m...
2023-05-30 21:51:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter taking a moment to ensure that Grandmother Lu was simply tired, rather than injured, and giving her a brief hug, Sen turned to face the last being he’d expected to see. Falling Leaf was still hovering near the injured Zhang Muchen, but no longer crouched directly over his body. Sen walked...
2023-05-30 21:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman was staring at Sen like he’d stepped out of some particularly horrible legend or nightmare. Even in the relative darkness, she looked pale. Sen did his best to distance himself from the idea that these were human beings. Some part of him simply loathed this aspect of being a cultivato...
2023-05-30 08:35:28 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a discussion about where it would be best to have the fight, should it come to a fight, Grandmother Lu decided that she’d rather it happened at the shop. When Sen asked her why, she shrugged and said it would put fewer people in danger. Nobody lived in the shop, while she had servants at ...
2023-05-29 22:19:56 +0000 UTC View PostVolume One of Unintended Cultivator is told from Sen's general point of view. That has/had a lot of utility value for the first book, largely because Sen was transitioning from a state of near-total ignorance to one of knowledge. As Volume Two draws ever closer, though, I've been thinking that ex...
2023-05-29 17:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostKalan woke up the next day with a profound feeling of relief. He understood the necessity of what he’d put Fresia through, but he’d despised it. It had never once occurred to him that it was nearly as much of a psychological trial to inflict such an experience as it was to endure it. He check...
2023-05-29 14:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostSen started by pulling out the small, enchanted box that Master Feng had given him. “With compliments of Master Feng and Auntie Caihong.”
Grandmother Lu took the box and, with more nervousness than Sen thought was wholly appropriate, she opened it. The room was almost immediately overwh...
2023-05-29 14:12:47 +0000 UTC View PostOkay. So, the poll remains open for the next Unintended Cultivator image, but Master Feng has been the front runner almost since word go. Unless something dramatically changes overnight, there's a good chance that his picture is next up in the commission queue.
I also noticed that several p...
2023-05-29 00:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostGrandmother Lu and all of her workers were waiting inside the shop. When he stepped back inside, all of them bowed to Sen. He knew they meant it to convey their respect, but it mostly just made him uncomfortable. No wonder Master Feng tried to keep a low profile when he went away all those ti...
2023-05-28 23:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostSen stared down at the corpse that used to be Chen Aiguo. It took Sen a moment to realize that he was waiting for something to happen. Heavenly rebuke? Overwhelming emotions? Neither happened. If the heavens were troubled by what he had done, they were keeping it to themselves. As for emotions, S...
2023-05-28 15:51:38 +0000 UTC View PostI’m still trying out artists. So, for my next test run, which character would you like to see artwork for?
2023-05-28 11:31:25 +0000 UTC View PostSen felt a sliver of cold dread as he made his way back through the shop under the frightened, watchful gazes of the workers. It wasn’t a worry that he might get hurt. He’d been hurt before. He wasn’t even truly concerned that he might die. It was a possibility, but he’d faced that possib...
2023-05-28 03:48:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a brief discussion and a quick meal, Sen accompanied Grandmother Lu back to her shop. She wasn’t comfortable simply carrying around anything as valuable as beast cores. It turned out that she didn’t have a storage ring of her own, which Sen found odd at first.
“I don’t deal wi...
2023-05-27 21:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostSen wasn’t sure if it was some kind of bad luck or weird karma, but he managed to scare the same maid. He’d found the kitchen and made tea. Then, he’d sat down at the small table in the kitchen to enjoy his tea. Not too long after, the maid came into the kitchen and saw him sitting there. S...
2023-05-27 18:47:30 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so, first things first. The first of the $15 tier chapters will post this afternoon. Hurray!
Second, my habit of late has been to publish 2 chapters per day both here and on Royal Road. But after the 30th or 50th or 100th comment on RR expressing some concern that I MUST be head...
2023-05-27 15:44:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sen came to, he was still sprawled out on the floor. He tried to gauge what time it was, or even what day it was, but it was a hopeless task beyond a general assessment that it was dark out. He pushed himself up and was happy to discover that, once again, his breakthrough did not involve his...
2023-05-27 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post