Flight of the Scions

Flight of the Scions[1] is my fourth published novel set in the Fedran[2] universe. It was written before all the others, but tells a story of a young teenage girl without any magic who ends up fleeing from mercenaries trying to kidnap her. Along the way, she makes friends from unexpected places, fights a giant monster, and ends up being betrayed but someone she thought she could trust.

1: https://fedran.com/flight-of-the-scions/

2: https://fedran.com/

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2024-10-20 SPFBO and Flight of the Scions - Just thoughts on Flight of the Scions being DNFd for SPFBO 2024.

2023-10-17 ICON 48 Retrospective

2011-11-25 Just been twenty days…

2011-09-01 A decision

2011-09-27 Hit a wall

2011-08-04 The beta copies for FOTS showed up

2011-07-25 And then I squeed with joy

2011-07-01 Writing and support systems

2011-07-11 Productive weekend

2011-07-30 And the point where money starts to matter

2011-05-30 #wiscon Day 2 and 3

2011-06-11 Hey, a blip in my life

2011-06-22 As long as it needs to be

2023-03-13 A Little Vacation - I'm going to take a two week vacation from work and already have al it of things to do.

2023-06-24 Fedran Infrastructure - In the last month, I've been doing a lot of writing and programming. I also finished a good-sized around of "fun coding" with Fedran.

2023-04-15 Obligations Hanging Over Me - It has been a busy month with many obligations intruding in my life.

2018-03-29 The End, NSFW Second-Hand Dresses 44, and Coming Next - Lily's romance is now over. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed the story. This is the first time I've really written a romance and definitely the first time I've ever written anything more than "fade to black".

2018-03-08 Underwhelming Projects, Second-Hand Dresses 41, and Coming Next - As we come up to the end, so do the little threads of Lily's life. This week, she finally finished the dress that has been haunting her for weeks. But she isn't alone, she had friends willing to encourage her through the last few steps, like presenting the dress to her mother and Marigold.

2018-03-15 Crashing, NSFW Second-Hand Dresses 42, and Coming Next - The dress was beautiful and perfect. No one, even the pickiest of people had nothing to say and Lily could finally relax. But how to you relax the day after it happens? Well, two good friends of hers have an idea.

2018-03-22 Life Cycles, Second-Hand Dresses 43, and Coming Next - Even though she is no longer in the High Society circles, Lily still has a chance to go to the party to see how Nirih's dress is presented. Nothing prepares her, however, with what else would happen that night.

2018-01-12 2017 Writing Monies - I've summarized both income and expenses over 2017 when it comes to writing and publishing books.

2018-08-13 Semantic Versions and Releases for Publishing - Over the last few weeks, I've been tweaking my publishing process to automate more of the release and generation process.

2018-06-17 Flight of the Scions is now beta! - Thanks to the effort of Shannon Ryan, Flight of the Scions is now officially beta. Sadly, I won't be in SPFBO like I hoped.

2016-02-03 Sand and Ash 27, Flight of the Scions 9, getting caught, and being a fool - Happiness is a hard thing to find, more so for characters in my world. Rutejìmo finds stability while being dead, alternating between working hard hours and spending time with his love. Kanéko, on the other hand, is humiliated in front of everyone including the boy she is falling for.

2016-02-10 Sand and Ash 28, Flight of the Scions 10, and depression - A dark chapter for poor Rutejìmo who is dealing poorly with being home but ignored. For Kanéko, a bright chapter as she approaches the Boar Hunt Inn. And a bit of discussion about miscarriage and depression.

2016-02-17 Sand and Ash 29, Flight of the Scions 11, suicide, and racism - While Rutejìmo is struggling with guilt as he plans on leaving Mapábyo, Kanéko is being attacked for being nothing more than curious and black.

2016-02-24 Sand and Ash 30, Flight of the Scions 12, foreshadowing, and magical healing - In Sand and Ash, I realized that I'm already foreshadowing the third book of the series while Rutejìmo finds unexpected allies while he was dead. In Flight of the Scions, Kanéko meets one of the few healers I plan on ever writing for this world.

2016-03-02 Sand and Ash 31, Flight of the Scions 13, living, and dying - Sand and Ash hits the epiphany that I originally never planed, Rutejìmo's purpose in life. In Flight of the Scions, Kanéko realizes that she may have made a mistake.

2016-03-16 Sand and Ash 33, Flight of the Scions 14, miscarriages, and abortion - When I originally wrote this and the next chapter for Sand and Ash, I was in the middle of dealing with a miscarriage. There is no question that this part of the story is influenced by my experiences.

2016-03-09 Sand and Ash 32, Flight of the Scions 14, and doubt - As Sand and Ash comes into the final stretch, we are dealing with a non-typical fantasy ending. At the same time, we are also coming to where Flight of the Scions becomes two separate books.

2016-03-30 Sand and Ash - Well, this is the end. Yeah, it's a week early, but I decided to post the final two chapters at once. It is a sad moment for me, mainly because there is a lot of me in this novel but I'm also glad that I got a chance to do this.

2016-01-20 Sand and Ash 25, Flight of the Scions 7, and love - This week Mapábyo gets Rutejìmo to talk about his love for another woman and Kanéko makes a humiliating mistake while trying to prevent a larger one.

2016-01-06 Sand and Ash 23, Flight of the Scions 5, Falling in Love, and Dreams - Two big moments for both Sand and Ash as well as Flight of the Scions. Rutejìmo finally declares his love and Kanéko dreams of proving herself to her father.

2016-01-27 Sand and Ash 26, Flight of the Scions 8, and mistakes - This week Rutejìmo gets a hint of what he is becoming and Kanéko finds herself falling for a boy.

2016-01-13 Sand and Ash 24, Flight of the Scions 6, and dog girls - And one of my favorite characters, the absolutely adorable Maris, is finally introduced to the readers.

2016-11-01 Sand and Bone 5, Flight of the Scions 39, splitting novels, and Exalted - I played Exalted for a long time and I knew it wouldn't be long before it showed up in my writing. This week, you can see hints of that.

2016-11-09 Sand and Bone 6, Flight of the Scions 40, and connected plots - We are only a single chapter from the climax of Flight of the Scions. I talk about it and how it connects to Sand and Bone.

2016-11-26 The last chapters of Flight of the Scions - I've posted the last chapters of Flight of the Scion for my subscribers. After this, I'm making a few changes to subscriptions.

2016-09-06 Sand and Blood 28, Flight of the Scions 33, and social rules - These two chapters focus on social roles and positions between different characters and their relationships.

2016-09-13 Sand and Blood 29, Flight of the Scions 34 - These two chapters focus on social roles and positions between different characters and their relationships.

2016-08-02 Sand and Blood 23, Flight of the Scions 28, and giant telepathic toads - This week, I introduce the villain of our story, a giant telepathic toad that terrorizes Kanéko and her friends. And Rutejìmo shows that he has a backbone.

2016-08-16 Sand and Blood 25, Flight of the Scions 30, and character depth - Both serials are at a turning point as we head into the conclusion for both. Also a bit about other books in the Rutejìmo series.

2016-08-10 Sand and Blood 24, Flight of the Scions 29, and teachers - Sometimes, we have a few lessons that need to be taught before all the action starts again. This chapter has a few quite moments.

2016-08-23 Sand and Blood 26, Flight of the Scions 31, and doubt - This week, both series talk about doubt in different forms: violence and death for Rutejìmo and Kanéko has her questions about her father.

2016-08-31 Sand and Blood 27, Flight of the Scions 32, and mistakes - Life is about failure, it is the only way to get ahead. This week's chapter is about iterative failures. Plus news about Sand and Bone.

2016-07-06 Sand and Blood 19, Flight of the Scions 25, and recovering from action - This week, both Kanéko and Rutejìmo are dealing with the conquences of their action scenes in the previous chapter.

2016-07-27 Sand and Blood 21-22, Flight of the Scions 27, powers, and secrets - Both trios find out a bit of their enemies this week along with revealing secrets for everyone. Plus Sand and Ash is out.

2016-07-13 Sand and Blood 20, Flight of the Scions 26, death, and lessons - A smattering of lessons, both about death and more cheerful things. We are getting to some of the more interesting parts of both novels.

2016-10-25 Sand and Bone 4, Flight of the Scions 38, and preparations - In the two chapters this week, we have two forms of preparing going on: one for the final battle and the other for a journey about to start.

2016-10-18 Sand and Bone 3, Flight of the Scions 37, and epic fights - This week, I introduce the plot for Sand and Ash while Kanéko has the epic fight that I original intended to write.

2016-10-11 Sand and Bone 2, Flight of the Scions 36 - I never realized how hard it is to reintroduce characters on the third book of a series. At the same time, I love writing about mature characters. On the other hand, I also have a chapter about a very immature young woman and her awareness of psychics.

2016-10-04 Sand and Bone 1, Flight of the Scions 35 - This week, I start the serialization of Sand and Bone, the third and final book of Rutejìmo's story.

2016-12-28 Sand and Bone 11, foreshadowing, third person limited, and big cities - Safely back at the city, Rutejìmo spends a leisurely day exploring the city. At least until Dimóryo finds him again.

2016-12-14 Sand and Bone 9, a little lesson on Miwāfu, gender in the desert, and speaking for the spirits - A grandfather looking for revenge and a man who cannot stop him.

2016-05-18 Sand and Blood 14, Flight of the Scions 20, and being weaker - Not every story has a Big Bad, the evil villain that makes the hero's job miserable. Sometimes the demons are inside the character's head. The chapters this week demonstrate both.

2016-05-11 Sand and Blood 13, Flight of the Scions 19, angels, and types of intelligence - Looking at Flight of the Scions, it's obvious that my main characters are actually rather intelligent.

2016-05-04 Sand and Blood 12, Flight of the Scions 18, speech patterns, and the Industrial Age - One of the difficult parts of writing Flight of the Scions is getting Ruben's speech pattern right. Also a brief discussion of mechanical devices in Fedran.

2016-06-29 Sand and Blood 18, Flight of the Scions 24, seeing in the dark, and violence - This week, both chapters have to deal with the same topic: fighting in the dark. This shows my love of the specific troupe but both stories go about it in very different ways.

2016-06-08 Sand and Blood 15, Flight of the Scions 21, and telepathic computers - After a few weeks of taking a break, I'm back to my serials. This week, we have a bit of introspection and a naming of the Big Bad.

2016-06-15 Sand and Blood 16, Flight of the Scions 22, and differing personalities

2016-06-12 Trigger Warnings - I've been thinking about Jim C. Hines' post about trigger warnings for a few months now. In the process of re-releasing two books, I decided to do something about it.

2016-06-22 Sand and Blood 17, Flight of the Scions 23, magical healing, and power addiction - Just another pair of discussions with both serials. I talk a little bit about magical healing and the addiction of power, not to mention conventions that I'm using with other languages and telepathy.

2016-04-20 Sand and Blood 10, Flight of the Scions 16, and gaining powers - Magical talents are one of the underlying aspects of Fedran, but how everyone gains their powers is wildly different.

2016-04-06 Sand and Blood 8, Flight of the Scions 13 (again) - I said I was going to take a little break, but I lied. Sand and Blood is starting to be serialized and I reworked Flight of the Scions 13.

2016-04-27 Sand and Blood 11, Flight of the Scions 17, Sand and Ash status, abusive relationships, telepaths, and economics

2016-04-13 Sand and Blood 9, Flight of the Scions 15 (again), five chapters of Sand and Bone, and injuries - I reworked chapter fifteen of Flight of the Scions, made another chapter of Sand and Blood available, opened up five chapters of Sand and Bone to subscribers, and talked about ending chapters.

2021-11-30 Using Nix - Today, I finished putting the final touches on additional features for `generator-mfgames-writing`, my scaffolding generator for Yeoman that lets me set up writing projects quickly.

2021-12-18 Basement Bathrooms - An update on the bathroom and the entangled knot gets just a little tighter.

2012-02-07 A general set of just getting things done

2012-01-08 And we are getting near the end

2012-08-27 Encouragement

2012-10-29 Miwāfu glyphs

2012-10-20 Finished a first draft

2012-10-12 The night before submissions

2012-10-05 Fear of submission

2012-05-19 Time management

2007-01-16 He remembered!

2007-01-09 Almost There…

2007-11-12 NaNoWriMo observations

2007-09-22 Randomly Cool Things

2007-09-17 Two Letters

2007-08-20 Back from GenCon

2007-08-08 Feedback!

2007-08-24 Black Holes of Writing

2007-10-04 The path not chosen

2007-12-29 Looking Back and Forward from 2007 to 2008

2007-05-02 Happenstance

2007-05-02 World Making

2007-05-03 Struggling with rejections and writing

2007-05-07 Visiting the Past

2007-05-15 New Projects and Wind, Bear, Moon editing

2007-05-06 Going Back in Time

2007-05-04 Reflections and Gifts

2007-05-17 Bikes, bones, and old game systems

2007-06-21 Fear of Submission

2007-06-19 The Last 24 Hours

2007-04-29 Bedknobs and Mountain Ranges

2007-04-30 Lojban Obscurity

2007-04-27 Mud and critical feedback

2015-02-25 What Is Going On Now? - It's been a few weeks since I last posted. When I work on projects, I have a tendency to go silent because I could either post or I could work on it. But, here is what is going on.

2015-08-21 Tarsan Famlies, Building Cultures, and Naming - While writing a highly ritualized culture that is centered around families, how to name and address them can be one of the most complicated steps.

2015-12-02 Sand and Ash 18, Flight of the Scions, and Second-Hand Dresses - Chapter eighteen is a short one, but there were some interesting things happening outside of the novel worth talking about including starting to release Flight of the Scions as a Patreon-only reward.

2015-12-16 Sand and Ash 20, Flight of the Scions 2, Obsession, and Hope - This week is Sand and Ash 20 and the second chapter of Flight of the Scions both talk about obsession and hope.

2015-12-09 Sand and Ash 19, Flight of the Scions 1 - This week is Sand and Ash 19 and the first chapter of Flight of the Scions, including some reasons of where Flight came from and where I'm going with all of this.

2015-12-23 Sand and Ash 21, Flight of the Scions 3, Rejection - This week we have two very different stories going on, both of my characters are setting out on their paths.

2015-12-30 Sand and Ash 22, Flight of the Scions 4, Hard Lessons, and Garèo - In the fourth chapter of Flight of the Scions, we introduce one of my favorite, screwed-up characters.

2015-12-06 Finishing up this round of MfGames Culture - Retrospective on a month of working on MfGames Culture.

2015-04-12 Writing News - It's been a few weeks since I've written about writing. Since then, I've managed to finish the third draft for Sand and Bone, drafted Raging Alone, and had a friend create an album with my lyrics.

2019-07-24 Future Plans - An update on near- and long-term plans for my writing and updates on this site. Also status on my Pride Month challenge stories, various novels, and financial plans.

2019-04-01 2018 Writing Monies - My high-level breakdown of 2018 incomes and expenses for writing.

2019-04-20 Poem - Wisps of Clouds - For the twentieth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little poem about flying. There is something about fliers I love, both the joy of losing oneself in the clouds but also the freedom to move.

2013-03-20 Creating Unicode charts for fonts

2013-01-18 Looking for beta readers again

2013-01-08 The end of 2012

2013-09-17 Time keeps on passing

2017-02-07 Sand and Bone 17, Choice, and Wisdom - Rutejìmo has come up to a point in his life, where he has to choose between his own life or dying for the clan.

2017-03-29 Unreliable Narrator; Dragon Spirits; Progress; and Sand and Bone 24 - This week, I talk about the limitations of third-person limited as it pertains to the master plot. Also, the problem with dragons coupled with why Damagar didn't destroy Kanéko in Flight of the Scions. Finally, an update on the finalization process of Sand and Bone.

2017-03-07 Teleportation; Midnight Flight; Sand and Bone 21 - Rutejìmo is put into a situation where he has to choose his duties to the clan or the ones to the desert. Which one will he pick? And will the conquences be deadly?

2017-01-31 Sand and Bone 16, R5-D4 plots, and dragons - We've gotten to a lovely chapter where two series intersect blatantly and the reader can get a hint of where I'm going with Flight of the Scions.

2017-09-12 More on Hair, Eye Colors, Falling Rain, and Second-Hand Dresses 16 - Apparently I wanted to talk about the process of world-building, in specific exploring the repercussions of changing hair color in my world to fit with the image I want instead of what I started with. It lets me move to a world that I want now without breaking the world I've already published. Oh, and Lily goes on a walk.

2017-08-07 Changing Gears - Well, my vacation is all over and I had a blast. I was up in northern Wisconsin for two weeks with coming home in time to do an author event at the local mall. I got a lot done, but time to change gears and focus on commissions for a week or three.

2017-05-16 Master Plots, Book Identifiers, Wind's Teeth, and Sand and Bone 31 - It's hard to believe that I'm near the end of the book. Only a few more chapters left. I'm betting I can abuse Rutejìmo a little more before the end though, besides there are a few plots (but not all) to finish up.

2017-05-30 Mikáryo, Datobàpo, Flight of the Scions, Patrons, and Sand and Bone 33 - We are rapidly heading over to the end of the novel, only three more chapters including this one. We also get to revisit two characters who were influential in Rutejìmo's life as they get one last chance to give their respects and encouragements.

2017-06-13 Advent Children, The End, Sand and Bone 35, What's Next - After thirty-five weeks, I've finished serializing Sand and Bone. The novel has been completely edited and posted. It is released as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. On the website, you can download the EPUB, MOBI, and PDF versions of the book. Or you can just read the chapters right on the website.

2017-04-18 Idle Thoughts, Worn Ideas, The Choice, and Sand and Bone 27 - I've thought a lot about my master plot, the different threads and stories that weave together into where I'm going. Even thought Sand and Bone is a single point-of-view novel, it is part of a master plot that I hope to see some day. I'm just doing it novel-by-novel instead o scene-by-scene. However, there is a drawback of thinking about stories too much and I'm afraid of burning out the idea before it can be pried out of my skull.

2014-02-10 A rather stressful week and then another

2014-02-19 Swears, Epitaphs, and Insults

2014-01-29 Rejected by Harper Voyager

2014-08-16 R5-D4 Plots - My philosophy for Fedran stories comes from a single conversation with a friend right before Star Wars I, The Phantom Menace, came out.

2014-07-03 What is in a name? - One of the barriers of entry of Sand and Blood is the main character's name, Rutejìmo. As much as this hurts my chance of selling the book, there is a reason behind it.

2014-07-05 Adding novel quotes - As part of the final steps for Sand and Blood, I've created a number of pages for the quotes that start every chapter.

2014-10-22 Why I chose the desert - I find my reasons for doing things to be fascinating. And when someone asks why, I usually try to answer it. One of the more recent one was my decision to set Sand and Blood in the desert.

2014-12-01 Journals of Fedran idea - For the last month or so, I had an idea of how to expand on my fantasy world, Fedran, by showing the wide variety of stories that exist in my head.

2014-12-15 Journals of Fedran progress - After a weekend of working on things, I've pretty happy with my progress on the Journals project.

2009-01-05 Goals for 2009

2009-08-20 Random musings

2009-06-08 Another weekend ends…

2008-02-03 Boiling Pots

2008-02-18 IHAP

2008-02-15 Deadlines and Bad Choices

2008-02-04 Long-Winded Question for WBM

2008-02-13 Slogging Through the Snow

2008-03-21 Brickpunk and Steampunk

2008-03-26 Reaching Your Goals

2008-01-16 Brick Walls

2008-01-16 ABNA Results are in!

2008-09-17 Another day, another paragraph

2008-07-25 Unexpected Inspirations

2008-10-09 Horrible, evil monkeys…

2008-12-24 Holiday writing

2008-06-25 Winding Up

2008-06-02 Interesting characters, including my wife

2008-06-09 World Building!

2008-06-05 Decisions and Breathing

2008-06-26 Running Bomb votes are in! (and a snippet from Scions)

2008-06-06 Book Titles, World Development, MP3s and DVDs

2008-06-17 Recovering

2008-04-25 Scroll of the Lands

2008-04-07 Sentence Sunday

2006-03-02 Paksennarion

2006-03-08 Packages in the Mail

2006-01-19 WBM moving forward again!

2006-11-21 Shared Worlds and Maps

2006-11-13 Wind, Bear, and Moon moves on

2006-07-26 Stupidity of Convention Events

2006-10-09 Killing Turf Wars

2006-05-16 Rejection #1

2006-06-13 WBM Submitted #2

2006-04-10 Still no publisher response

2022-03-19 ABC Did a Beautiful Job Siding My House - Last week, we got siding put on our house. It is beautiful and ABC did a wonderful job installing it. While that is a relief, there are still things I need to work on.

2022-01-16 fedran-cli - I started working on a small tool, `fedran-cli`, to help me manage and work with the growing cluster of stories and novel Git repositories and automated processes.

2022-01-21 Content Warnings - This Book Contains Death - As part of my work toward getting Flight of the Scions done, I decided to work on content warnings.

2022-11-25 Migrated Fedran to Nitride - Some thoughts about migrating Fedran to Nitride.

2022-09-06 Migrating to Take Away the Pain - I had surgery last Friday. It was and continues to be painful, so I needed to distract myself so I decided to finish up the process of migrating my C# projects from GitLab over to my Gitea instance.

2022-08-27 August in a Nutshell - The last few weeks of August have been very busy, both in terms of obligations, deadlines, and events of note. Some of them are negative while others are positive, so give me a chance to tell how my month has been going.

2022-07-14 The Words are Done - One of my goals for the year was to publish Flight of the Scions before ICON. As of today, the words of the novel are finally done and all that is left is to finalize the cover and get it printed.

2022-10-26 Various Updates - Good and Bad - Two months ago, I was uncomfortable and in pain and distracted myself with migrating to a new forge. In the time since then, I've pretty much done the same thing: been in a lot of pain and migrating stuff.

2022-06-06 Radio Silence - I haven't posted in three months and there is a lot going on. A long summary of the crises that are bothering me, some talk about games and writing, and generally a status of my current mental state.

2022-06-24 A Little Give - A follow up on a previous post, things have gotten better in the last fortnight and I thought I would share both what went well and where my focus remains.

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