In Tanchico where sea winds sigh,

And white walls gleam beneath a sunlit sky,

May your day be rich as spice-filled air,

With laughter bright and joys laid bare.

Like jeweled courts and shifting tides,

May fortune walk close at your side,

And every year, like this one too,

Bring wonder, warmth, and dreams made true. 🌊✨

Happy birthday!!! 
 

On 1/16/2026 at 5:34 PM, HeavyHalfMoonBlade said:

I would shy away from calling myself a writer as I have never managed anything outside of Nanowrimo,  but I came across a program called yWriter. It is just a word processor more or less but it has some nice touches like allowing you to put the point of view, characters, setting, outline and such per scene or chapter. So you can for example check that your main character's pov has more words than a secondary character, and you can generate an outline by only showing each chapter's, etc, and it is just useful to have all that info without having it in a separate document or in the main narrative either.  Each chunk is separate so you can move them about while looking at the higher info, such as pov and word count. 

 

It is free to use and it is an author who just shares the tool that he uses. It is still being kept uptodate and may have more features now as I haven't used it in years and years. 

 

You can find it here if you think it sounds interesting yWriter8 by Spacejock Software

Great info Heavy! This is what I think I need. Its so much information to keep track of and a way to have it organized is where I get lost.

Well... I am a bit old school anyway so a notebook sounds lovely for development. What about the actualy story? I am not a fan of MS Word. Do you use any online programs? I see many of them out there but not sure if they are worth it. I mostly use GoogleDocs but find it a bit cumbersome with story telling. 

I have had a book series brewing in my head for several years, but no idea how to get it down on paper. I took creative writing in high school in college. None of that actually prepared me to write any kind of novels.

So… To the writers out there, what do you use to organize and write your books?

Have you tried contacting the jeweler to see if they can make another one? I bet if you tell them what happened they would be happy to make a new one for your wife.

I know exactly how you feel!

There were actually three "whoops just kidding" moments with Land dying.

You are right!

Finished it last night and wow! I was very happy with it overall. The only thing that bugged me was Lan seams to die killing Damodred, but then he's not dead. Mat seams to die (twice) with Fain, but then he's not dead. I'm happy they are alive, but it was like...what? I was very happy with the Olver/Noal scene, that really got me and it was the one time I cried. 

Right now I am reading Lord of Chaos, book six of WoT and I love it. My plan is to keep reading through the series until finished.