update

Official Stuff and Nonsense

Update!!! All Cursed Prince posts have been deleted, for the simple reason that I am in the midst of revisions, with the intent of officially publishing the full, beautifully revised book within the next year or so!

Thank you to those who read it in its early slop trash first draft form, and please keep an eye out for further updates! (We’ll see if i can actually remember to post here… but whatever…)

All said, I’ll likely keep posting little rambles every now and then, but for the foreseeable future I think this lovely little sketchbook will be on the shelf.

Again, thanks to everyone who read the things!

Cheers, and see y’all around, soonish or laterish. Who really knows?

KU

An Update and an Explanation

Happy September y’all! I’m not dead, so that’s a good thing, right? Also how TF are we in FRIGGIN SEPTEMBER ALREADY WHERE TF DID AUGUST GO!? Yike.

This summer has been, in a word, hectic. But in a good way. I’ve gone to two renaissance faires (legit some of the most fun things ever!) started a new job slinging coffee in addition to wine, and finished draft three of my WIP novel!!! AYEE! And with that development, that means I’m on the cusp of querying!

So what is this post for? Why am I here instead of doing my side gig and flinging queries at people? Welst, lemme tell you. Muse has taken it into her head to get down into the nitty gritty of a side project I’ve had on the back burners for months now, because apparently she wants to. (Also thank you, Brya, for encouraging me to do the two sentences a day for the month. It was because of that challenge that I overcame the tiny little knoll I was struggling to get over in regards to restarting the thing).

Now, what the heck is this side project? I’ve mentioned it in a few previous posts, but it’s time for some elaboration. Cursed Prince was my final project during my senior year of college (2021). It was a second-person POV click-through narrative game thingy developed on Twine, and I about died during the creation, conception, an execution of the story.

And yet I utterly fell in love with the characters and story and the world building. It helped that it’s set in the world of one of my other WIP series, just in a different age, and as such it was as much an exercise in general world building as it was a senior project. Things just clicked, and it became one of my favorite mid-length stories I’ve developed.

What’s it about though, you ask? Ha. That’s for you to find out through reading! My intent with this little project is to develop CP as a serial story. Dish and Spoon was sort of a trial run, but CP is going to be significantly longer. Hell, the printed version of the original is around 50 pages, which is essentially my skeledraft of this reiteration.

I don’t know how many installments there’ll be, so who knows? Maybe I’ll even be generous and share the multiple endings I wrote!

But enough of this chaotic, rambling update post. It’s time to get to the good stuff.

Until next time!

KU

Beginnings

Hey hi hello, my lovely readers!!

How was your holiday season? Survive? Yeah? Okay. Good. I hoped so.

After three days of doing my level best to morph into a couch – reading, mostly, with some TV consumption as well – I’ve suddenly found myself back to desirable levels of energy *continues to drink water out of a bottle and dance around the apartment to medieval tavern music in flowy clothes*.

BUT ANYWAYS!!! Welcome to 2023! Can you freakin’ believe we made it through 2022? I certainly can’t. It feels like I was just screaming in 2020 a week ago. Fortunately, things have been on the up and up! In the last few months of 2022 I got a sort-of promotion at my day job selling happy grape juice, I finished my second draft of my full-length WIP novel, and beat my reading goal of 90 books by 21 (thank you, Dresden Files anthology for furthering my brain rot and obsession with my book husbando).

That all said, I figured I’d let y’all know that I have plans for this new, infant year! Plans for things here, and off-site. In addition to starting my second round of edits on the aforementioned novel (which shall henceforth be known as WIP1), I plan on working on/fleshing out a number of prequel shorts to WIP1, continuing to develop some higher level concepts for WIP2 (the sequel to WIP1), and probably get a little more into the development of at least two other WIPs (unrelated to WIP1). I’m also planning on starting my querying journey here in the next month or two as well!!! SO! Keep y’all eyes peeled for updates on that front.

But what about the blog! I hear you cry. To which I say: FEAR NOT! I’m not going to neglect this little story sketch dump! Even as I write this, I have a fresh little piece of emotional damage sitting in my notes, another sitting in my drafts here (tho that one is a little… mmmm… spicier than emotionally traumatizing :D). I ALSO!! promise that I’ll have the final piece of Dish and Spoon ready and posted here in the VERY near future, if only for my own piece of mind. Not having that story finished has rather been hanging over my head since September. But since I’ve promised here that it’ll be finished, I’m holding myself accountable on your collective behalf.

I also plan (hopefully) to get more into the development, writing, and posting of a longer continued story. I mentioned it a few updates back, but don’t know how much I shared. All I’ll say about now is this: it’s called The Cursed Prince, it’s high fantasy, I developed it for a narrative game dev class, fell in love with the characters, and decided to flesh it out and share it here! It’s more or less completely written (with multiple endings, no less!) and now it’s only a matter of fleshing it out and making it prettier to read. I only hope I can do Moreän, Sari, Vargos, Daer, and Kelnar’s collective, chaotic story justice.

As for the Hero/Villain pieces and other miscellaneous ramblings? Eh. They’ll come as they come, hopefully with more feral gremlin energy and exploding strawberries.

Phew. That is quite the wall of text, something that would horrify an old professor. If you managed to read all that, good on you.

As always, thank you for reading, and please don’t hesitate to reach out in any way, shape, or form!! I love interacting with people about my writing, and would love to start doing that a little more here.

On that note! May your year be filled with success, triumph, joy, and all the little pleasantries that life has to offer! *Uncle Iroh voice* Like tea *slurps said tea*. See you on the page, my dear readers!

Cheers, and Buon Anno Nuovo!

KU

ANOTHAH! Wee Update

Greetings, my lovely readers.

With the holidays and the chaos that was 2021 behind us, I figured now was as good a time as any to drop in and say hi.

HI!

Okay, now that that is out of the way, a few comments:

Clearly posts have been scarce, few and far between, and rarer than an honest burglar (they exist, I promise.) And I’m okay with that. These past few months have been chaotic, and not entirely the best. But such is this life.

THAT SAID! I started writing a book in earnest. I read 100 books in 2021. I worked two fabulous jobs, that I have since quit so that I might pursue TWO other fabulous jobs somewhere else! Which means I will be moving soon.

I can’t tell you what this will mean for the posts here on 2HT, but… eh. Let’s just say that when the muse strikes, she strikes hard and fast. I may or may not have another Hero/Villain piece lurking, written but unedited, in my notes (but we’ll see if that one ever sees the light of day. Or computer screen.)

Don’t get me wrong, I love these pieces. I love exploring the dynamics and different vibes these little vignettes give. Besides, they’re fun as sin to write. But they’re dark. And I realized, in the course of a Hinge conversation that I’ve sort of lost the initial intent of this blog.

Which – obviously – isn’t a bad thing! But my hope is to start posting some more good, pure, fun, nonsense pieces in the near future. Tales written in two hours or less, right? Right! So let’s hear it for flying avocados, adventurous socks on a quest to their missing mates in the horrible realm of Maytag, and many more Hero/Villain/Sidekick/Minion shenanigans.

Thank you, Hinge dude. Your contribution is worth the hoard of a thousand dragons.

As always, I hope you enjoy your time here, and here’s to a year filled of adventure, physically and imaginatively.

XOXO

KU

A Small Update

My friends, I have an announcement.

As of about three weeks ago, I graduated with a B.A. in video game design, concentrating in writing! As such, and with a nullification in academic writing, it is my hope and goal to start posting updates more regularly.

The past three weeks have been, in a word, chaotic. But rest assured that there will be new content coming in the very near future. I currently have another Hero/Villain piece in the works and hope to get it up within the week.

Beyond that, who knows how, when, or in what manner Muse will strike? I only hope you enjoy what I’ve been posting, and look forward to future installments to 2 Hour Tales as much as I look forward to writing them.

Thank you for reading, and may the well of inspiration never run dry.

KU