Tris' Thoughts
Mentally dissecting fandoms and original writing
Category: Fantasy
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“Proof of Concept” is a blog series where I take a lore or narrative idea and elaborate on how it could be implemented, sometimes in the real world but typically in a fantastical setting. These posts are designed to spark creativity in readers and writers. Any proper nouns I personally create in these series are…
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The prologue excerpt from my upcoming fantasy thriller. A moonless night blanked cool shadows over a flat desert for miles. At its center was a lush, imposing biome of a rainforest. Lining its outskirts were small fruit trees–only twice a man’s height at most–with wide-stretched branches. Their bark was veined in reds and vibrant purples,…
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Beyond Continuity Intro Beyond Continuity is a series where I take a story or character and give my take on how I would present them. The goal is to take what exists in official continuities and improve on it or to show alternate paths the story or characters could have taken. Any and all suggestions…
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Beyond Continuity Intro Beyond Continuity is a series where I take a story or character and give my take on how I would present them. The goal is to take what exists in official continuities and improve on it or to show alternate paths the story or characters could have taken. Any and all suggestions…
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Plenty of stories will get hung up on some background information. The Lord of the Rings is famous for expositing pages after pages of lore about content that isn’t needed to understand the main plot. And because of that, the reader will get lost on what the main story is, or they could even get…