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22 March 2026 Read through the first act of The Sword, the Song, and the Mage. Again, I am reminded of how far this project has come: from dice and graph paper to a growing epic I am already planning future instalments of. I am currently focusing primarily on grammar and mechanics, while incorporating my…
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While it has been a few weeks since my last post, fear not. I finished my first revision of the story and am astounded by how well it is turning out. Character dialogue no longer drags, scenes flow with an awesome tempo, battles are more decisive, and more and more, I feel that this is…
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*PSA – I figured out how to add the comment section to my posts. Click on the Post Title and read all the way to the bottom. Thanks.* First, I was fine. Just a slight absence of my day to day. It was, for the most part, only two hours at a time in the…
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Eight months ago, I made a commitment to stop playing video games for a month. Much like dealing with withdraw symptoms, you seek a means to substitute the bad habit with a good one. When, I took up playing solo Dungeons and Dragons and not only had I completed a whole questline generated from dice…
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Today marks a few milestones in the progress of The Sword, the Song, and the Mage. First and foremost, I have completed Act 2 of the first draft. The heroes have completed several trials both external and internal in order to find the way to restore peace to their world. Now they must proceed onward…
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As I mentioned in the previous post, there has been a lot of work that has gone into The Sword, the Song, and the Mage and a lot of it was given freely, whether by watching countless hours of YouTube Author/Creators discussing key points and what-not-to-dos , or finding resources at that ancient feature known…
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This weekend marks the progress of The Sword, the Song, and the Mage to the threshold of 300 pages…for the second time. I had drafted up to page 324 and was not liking the feel. Up to this point I had been taking the adventure notes and copying them over to the draft and editing…
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I am currently working on The Sword, the Song, and the Mage: Act 2, and I have reached 215 pages into the story. The heroes’ paths have finally come together from their separate paths. While I had role-played through this scene back in February, I loved finally getting to revisit the Immersive Storybuilding session and…
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Today, I have finished the First Draft of The Sword, the Song, and the Mage: Act 1. Roughly 100 pages in, I am finding that the process is becoming much smoother and the storyline finally coming together in a rhythm that I like. The main character is setting off into the wider world for the…
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James C Gilliam 