This installment of the My First Monster Manual blog series is the Egganoggin. Environment: Cozy home holiday parties or the evergreen forests of nutmeg trees Monster Type: Friendly Protector Color: White fur, black eyes, horns, and serrated claws. Features: One SBL in height, scale like fur, long prehensile tail. Abilities: Teleportation and nutmeg grating. Recommended […]
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Tufted Owl Beast – My First Monster Manual
This installment of the My First Monster Manual blog series is the Tufted Owl Beast. Environment: Forest and Woodlands Monster Type: Neutral Color: Male: Blue and White, Female: Grey and White, Yellow eyes and beak. Features: Short feathered eye ridge, tufted ears Abilities: Excellent vision, hearing and smell. Silent Flight Recommended Equipment: Padded body wear, […]
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This installment of the My First Monster Manual blog series is the elusive Twilight Fairy named Madeleine. Environment: Gardens, Forests and Wildflower fields. Monster Type: Neutral Color: Pale skin, black or grey wings, and light pastel hair. Features: Tiny, long limbs, bat like wings, and extend claw like toes. 3/4 SBL Abilities: Night vision, Shadow […]
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Relaxing With Time
Relaxing With Time I feel that I am a very lucky person. I appreciate all things in life from the small such as the smell of coffee when you open the bag to make a pot to the large such as getting a job you always wanted. I do not know if it is inherently […]
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The Human Factor
The Human Factor In order to draw a crowd, or more specifically sell a product/idea, the creator seems to need to link the product with some type of connection to people. In the creative world, we tend to go beyond to just appealing to our sense of “betterment”. Our sense of “betterment” would be something […]
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Every Single Minute
Every Single Minute My brother once said to me that he knew he was expendable by the time he was nine. My response to him was that he beat me; because, I made the discovery the summer I turned ten. I cried off and on for two weeks. Incredibly you grow up pretty fast under […]
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Click
Click, click. Click, click. Click, click. Click, click. Click, click. Wham! I smacked the pen out of the slim manicured hand. Aaaagh, crack! My head bounced off the tram car window as warm liquid spurted over my mouth. Click, click, click, click,click, click……… “Run!” Darren whispered harshly. Kids scattered everywhere as they heard Mrs. Drew’s […]
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FOG
Through the Fog: Billowing, cold, steamy, misty, thin, thick, echoing, hushed, fog comes with as many characteristics as necessary to describe the current mood, scene, setting, location or even a feeling. Which one often tells the story. Panting, we continued to run over the terrain our hair dripping with the collecting dampness. They were catching […]
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Layers
Layers The whole idea of layers has crept up on me slowly surfacing in my thoughts at various unexpected times. I am recalling as a child when playing in the mud on a rainy day starting a construction with a base. Using the base adding the different textures of mud by adding the amount of […]
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A Few Thoughts
And a Few Thoughts……. We writers write but the words do not always come easy. I am not talking about that lament, writers block. I am discussing the process of writing words that have meaning and convey the essence of their intent. In order to do this, most writers practice. When I think back to […]
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