Tag: snippet

Had to backtrack. What’s the point of an adventure story without adventures? Which is to say: “other people in deep sh*t, far away.”

I’m starting to think that they need at least one fight with this mudnado thing before they even got to the Old American ruin. Only problem is, I have yet to figure out how they distracted it long enough to get a bunch of wagons away safely. And themselves, of course. Can’t kill them off in the first fight, because then what’s the story?

There may be a number of jokes in this larger story.

I’ve since realized that ‘mudnado’ is so much better name than ‘mudstorm.’ Not that it comes up in this snippet. But it will, later.

Old American ruins. So handy for the plot. So usefully ominous.

I was trying to figure out how to make a mud storm interesting, and then I remembered that this is a fantasy series. Duh. Make it sapient and malevolent!

Fascinating thing, the North American Monsoon. Some, hah, earthy language in the text, but I feel that it’s justified. If anything, it’s probably bowdlerized. Remember: this will be on Patreon this month for subscribers.