The coterie finally gets their mission from the Baroness as we hit the halfway point to the book. Here’s where it all begins to ramp up! Tensions grow, secrets revealed, and danger looms… will our little band of misfits make it? Or will they tear each other apart?

What is love?

Baby don’t hurt me…

Love is a lot of things, takes a lot of forms, and reflects a lot of people in different ways. Diego was my linchpin for love in my story, but he didn’t just shine a spotlight, he broke open a wall.

Sometimes we get good ideas… and sometimes they fly out the window. What do we do as writers when that happens?

Love is a tricky thing to navigate, especially when you’re already dead.

It’s Diego’s time to shine! Which is exceptionally ironic, considering his clan.

Write drunk, edit sober… classic editing advice, but in this case editing is the third step in the journey. How’s the best way to deal with it in a story where you’ve already lived the adventure twice?

A safe haven is sometimes safe, and sometimes holds other threats. With the Wight on the other side of the heavy wooden doors and the sun rising, the physical threat is held at bay for now… but the politica dangers begin…

An emotional rollar coaster, but even when death is on the line (or especially when death is on the line) you need to figure out who your real friends are, if you have any to begin with, and most importantly… who can you trust?

I always told my students they needed to have an outline before they wrote anything, well now I think I need an outline after writing all this in order to figure out the next steps. Here’s what we’ve got so far…

Left you on a bit of a cliffhanger there, but now its time to see what happened to Isadora…

The world is so often black and white to us, it’s little wonder that we have difficulties seeing the shades of Grey.

Within the mundane modern world, magic is usually difficult to find. That’s why its important that we find our own sources of magic.

After a bit of tension between the two newer coterie members is set to cool, Grey finds himself reflecting on death with Isadora, trying to navigate how he views life through the eyes of another.

The stories converge! Such an exciting moment and one that will mean more as the stories move forward.

Made a slight scheduling error, but better late than never! Lets take a look behind the scenes at how DMing shifted story structure, and how it helps create moments and characters that progress the story for the players rather than just my own desires as a writer.

The coterie is on a mission from the Baroness to meet with a visiting coterie from the north. Who will they be meeting, and what urgent news needs a personal escort in these modern nights?

For the longest time I saw the world in Black and White, and only recently have I been able to start seeing in shades of Grey. Through him I’m even able to start seeing both why and how these polarizing viewpoints developed in myself.

Faith and religion have powerful effects on the world of Replaced, but how does it affect the characters of the world when it comes from many different places?

The Coterie is complete, and tensions rise as they are sent to make their new haven a home. As they claim their individual territories, each will need to stake a claim in something even more important: their positions within the new dynamic.

If everyone on the team got along immediately then we would be lacking the key part of any story: conflict. But more importantly, as reflections of myself, there needs to be that inner conflict that I’m working on. Well, here she is, people, one of my greatest inner conflicts made manifest.