challenges
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Superstitions in Paradiso Marjani “Jani” Reis is a ship’s captain, and that role almost always comes with a lot of superstitions. Before she starts on another voyage, she has to tap three times on the stained glass picture of St. Clement’s anchor that hangs on the bridge, and the night before leaving a port, she
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Humor in Paradiso As much as I’d like to channel Terry Pratchett into Paradiso, I have a feeling that it would just come across as forced. I’m not clever enough to be a satire writer, no matter how much I’d love to, so I’m leaning into my strengths. Plus, this story isn’t really a light
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Character Quirks One of the quirkiest characters in Paradiso happens to be the first character (as of right now) that the readers meet: Brick LaMasse. He’s a night shift janitor at a local hospital, and he fully enjoys being what he calls a “day snoozer.” Although he keeps to himself, usually because of the time
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Risks in Paradiso This is yet another ambiguously worded prompt, but hey, that gives me a lot of freedom to talk about Paradiso in ways that aren’t just about risks the characters take in the story (because I really don’t wanna give that away just yet!).
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Do your characters believe in luck or fate? Okay, so the cast of characters that I am working with is pretty extensive, so I think that what I’m going to do is focus on a single character for each question that resembles this one. That way, it won’t get too repetitive and you’ll kind of
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Saturday Snippet #1 Okay, I’m being very vulnerable here, you guys. The last time I published anything to the public, fiction-wise, was back in 2015, so this is a huge step for me. Whether or not this ends up being in the book is neither here nor there, but it does kind of give you
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Free Friday or post some good fortune Well, I have no idea what to do with this one? Part of it is that I worked the last four days in a row (I work 12-hour night shifts as a nurse in the ICU), so my brain is not firing on all cylinders. I know what
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Lies in Paradiso Oh, the lies in this story … I can’t give too many details away but a lot of the central mystery involves a lot of lying, mostly in the corporate sense. There is also a major plot between a married couple where the husband is very obviously keeping something from his wife,
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Are your characters introverted or extraverted? Well, this one is easy: I have so many viewpoint characters that they cover the spectrum of introversion and extraversion, from the hermit Brick to the reserved Catherine to the flashy Ash to the life of the party Fan. I love every single one of these characters, even my
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Introduce yourself & your WIP Although I’ve alluded to this story for several years, I do not think I’ve ever really introduced it in any proper way, so I guess now is the best time to do it! Paradiso is if Outer Worlds/Fallout, Battlestar Galactica, Bubblegum Crisis, Akira, Mass Effect, and Game of Thrones got
a little more juju 