Hobby Writing

Stories

The Unending Epic. A story of an unexpected pair learning to rely on each other, stay alive, and discover the wonder of their world. I started writing this with the premise of adding to it a little bit (sometimes just a paragraph or two) every day without planning anything about where the story was going. It turned into one of my favorite stories I’ve ever written.

Read it here.

Companions. Four friends, wildly different writing styles, one idea. Companions was a college project undertaken with three friends when one of us asked, “If you had a little companion, like a daemon or familiar or something, what would it be?” The answers spawned characters, which spawned a world, which spawned a story. My friends and I quickly learned that we were bad at writing together, but, we were great at writing separately. So Companions turned into a tv show script, with each person in charge of whole episodes. The two (complete) seasons featured:

• A fully developed world with 12 major cities, a governing body, fantastical organizations, and dragons that live in books.

• An overarching (and sympathetic) villain, as well a handful of minor villains.

• Character arcs riddled with pain and laughter.

• General fun and shenanigans. Truly; I think it was my most cherished writing experience to date.

The first half of the pilot episode is available in the writing samples below.

Dungeons & Dragons

The Story. What do you get when you mix someone who loves fantasy stories, whose favorite part of board games is reading the rules, and whose writing passion is fueled by having an audience? Four years of creative explosion. Since discovering D&D, I’ve run a campaign spanning hundreds—probably thousands—of hours, a dozen small campaigns and one shots, and written material that’s been downloaded over 400 times on DM’s Guild.

The Writing. I could write a blog about everything I love about D&D (in fact, maybe I should). For now, I’ll summarize it by saying that the world- and story-development possible in D&D, combined with the immediate audience feedback and engagement that it allows, makes it one of the best storytelling media I’ve yet discovered. Nothing else has taught me how to develop and work with characters like D&D has.

Public Homebrew. I have four subclasses published on DM’s Guild, which can be found here. The amount of original D&D material I’ve created could probably fill several books, but of course some of it can’t be published for proprietary reasons, and others just aren’t very refined yet. What’s on DM’s Guild is my most polished and balanced work. I have several more projects in the works, but for now what’s on there is:

• Oath of the Dragon Knight Paladin - a paladin that serves dragons or dragon gods.

• Ego Domain Cleric - so full of themselves, they think they’re a god.

• Soul of Arcana Sorcerer - you know what the sorcerer needed? More magic.

• Eden Warden Ranger - for when you just want to tend your garden and be at peace.