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# Emma Lindhagen

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- [Flash Fiction Friday - No Therapy In the Afterlife](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2026/06/flash-fiction-friday-no-therapy-in-the-afterlife/) - What's this? A flash fiction Friday post? Do miracles never cease? No but seriously, I'm pretty sure it's been actual years since I posted flash fiction. I doubt I'll get back to posting weekly anytime soon, but I have missed it. For now, sporadic will have to do. I got the idea below while listening
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Here, have some prompts!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/04/flash-fiction-friday-here-have-some-prompts/) - Oh wow, it's Friday... And it's late. I've been to dinner at my parents' house, and then I've been working on a birthday present for my bestie's little girl, whose 2nd birthday party we're going to tomorrow. It's now 12:30 and my brain's a bit too mushy for flash fiction I'm afraid. So instead of my
- [Twice Fortnightly - So many ideas!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/03/twice-fortnightly-so-many-ideas/) - As I've mentioned, I've been brainstorming a bit about the future of the Orryn series lately and I have to tell you... at this point I am virtually swimming in ideas. It seems I can barely turn around without coming up with some new aspect I want to explore, a new theme or incident, a new
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Wrong Channel](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2024/02/flash-fiction-friday-wrong-channel/) - I actually wrote this piece last week but didn't finish it in time for Friday, so I decided to keep it for this week. It was inspired by another prompt from the Storytelling Collective's Flash Fiction February, namely this Tolkien quote: "We are not bound forever to the circles of the world, and beyond them
- [Flash Fiction Fr-aturday - Amends](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2024/02/flash-fiction-fr-aturday-amends/) - It seems sort of appropriate that my return to Flash Fiction Friday should be stumbling and come out a day late, after how uneven it's been for the last couple of years. But at least it's here! This month I'm participating in Flash Fiction February, an event hosted by the Storytelling Collective. This year's prompts
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Home](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2023/09/flash-fiction-friday-home/) - Gosh it's been ages since I wrote flash fiction. But here's a little thing, based on a prompt I made up for a challenge last year. Hope you like it. Home When the first frost came, footprints appeared by the apple tree. They came out of the thicket, two sets walking alongside one another and
- [Flash Fiction Friday - By Fire](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2023/05/flash-fiction-friday-by-fire/) - It's been a little bit since I wrote flash fic. This one is based on a prompt I came up with a while ago and stuck in a jar. Hope you like it! By Fire It wasn't a very good haul. Good enough to get by, sure, but not good enough to buy herself a
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Theories](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2023/02/flash-fiction-friday-theories/) - Gosh it's been a while since flash fiction Friday happened, huh? This piece is based on a prompt (the first line) from ServiceScape.com, but I feel like I took it in a bit of a unique direction. Hope you enjoy it! Theories There had been many theories about how she had been murdered. The cops
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Broken Sky](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/12/flash-fiction-friday-broken-sky/) - I'm doing a thing this month on Mastodon I'm calling AdventPrompt, where every day I post a writing prompt (inspired, directly or indirectly, by my tea advent calendar). I am planning to keep most of the prompts for a rainy day, but this one caught me and as it is Friday I turned it into
- [Flash Fiction... Funday? - Felled](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/11/flash-fiction-funday-felled/) - So many effs. I wrote this yesterday (also not a Friday, hah), but forgot to post it. It's set in the same world as one of my WIPs but not actually related to the story. Hope you enjoy it! Felled As soon as the bolt left the bow, Elker knew it would find its mark.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - That's No Elf!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/09/flash-fiction-friday-thats-no-elf/) - We've been watching The Rings of Power so here's a little elfy snippet. Hope you enjoy! That's No Elf! The thing about Elves is that they’ve always frightened me a little. Not the way that wolves and their slavering jaws frighten me, or the way that lightning does. No, the way that the waters that
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Later](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/09/flash-fiction-friday-later/) - Seems like all my flash fic pieces are based on dreams lately. Well, this one isn't so much based on a dream, as vaguely derived from one. Hope you like it! Later Her hand tightens around her staff and she quietly gets to her feet, drawing herself up to her full height in the shadow
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Claw Marks](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/09/flash-fiction-friday-claw-marks/) - Flash fic! Yay! I feel like I've written something very similar to this before, but I haven't had time to dig into my archives to find out so I'm really not sure. Hope you like it! Claw Marks She looks at herself in the mirror, and finds three marks, the palest of pink, drawing a
- [Flash Fiction Funday - Foster-mother of Dragons](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/07/flash-fiction-funday-foster-mother-of-dragons/) - Normally when I'm late with my flash fiction, I end up posting it on the Saturday. This week though, instead of a Fraturday, we're having a Funday! This piece is inspired by playing this solo rpg. It's a sort of prologue to my game, written just before I started. Hope you enjoy! Foster-mother of Dragons
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Running Wild](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/07/flash-fiction-friday-running-wild/) - I've been thinking a lot about an idea I have, and my brain decided to keep working on it when I slept. This little snippet is the result. Hope you enjoy it! Running Wild “We’re going to try to be out for a week,” the young man says as he hands his backpack to Sanna
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Runaway, Swept Away](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/06/flash-fiction-friday-runaway-swept-away/) - My parents recently got an electric car, and I'm fascinated by how it doesn't vroom as it approaches, it just sort of... sings. Like a space ship. So I wrote this. Runaway, Swept Away The street is quiet, the apartment blocks tall and dark and brooding. Haley shifts her weight from foot to foot, peering
- [Flash Fiction Fr-aturday - Thrift Store Portal](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/05/flash-fiction-fr-aturday-thrift-store-portal/) - It's been a while since I posted flash fiction, huh? I actually had this idea yesterday after an interesting thrift store experience, but I was too tired to write it until today. I just love putting portals in strange places. Hope you enjoye! Thrift Store Portal Julie inhaled deeply and rolled her shoulders, shifting the
- [Flash Fiction Fr-aturday - The Next Time](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2022/03/flash-fiction-fr-aturday-the-next-time/) - Wow, it's been so long since I posted a flash fiction piece last. It isn't even Friday but hey... I'm back! Hope you enjoy it. The Next Time I understand now. I always wondered, as a child, why people used to see fairies dancing across the misty fields and I never got to see any.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Two years too far away](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/11/flash-fiction-friday-two-years-too-far-away/) - This flash fic piece was based on a prompt from Seventh Sanctum! Hope you enjoy it. Two years too far away The planet is my greatest betrayer. I have to see it that way, because the only other alternative is admitting that it's my own body that is letting me down. With a life-expectancy of
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Fancy Coats and Chilly Toes](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/11/flash-fiction-friday-fancy-coats-and-chilly-toes/) - I didn't get around to posting when I wrote it, but I finally got back to writing flash fic again! Yay! This piece is a bit random but here we are. Fancy Toes and Chilly Toes There are too many fancy coats downtown. Mia isn't even really sure how she knows that the coats are
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Place in the Clouds](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/07/flash-fiction-friday-the-place-in-the-clouds/) - I often have flashes of inspiration when I'm in a car. Maybe it's just because I don't ride in cars very often and that makes it a little bit of a liminal space for me, associated with holidays and family events. This idea came to me from a truly spectacular cloudscape I saw today. I
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Amends](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/07/flash-fiction-friday-amends/) - What's this? Flash fiction Friday on a Monday? Preposterous! No but seriously, that's just how it goes sometimes. I wanted to write this on Friday after finishing my play-through of an absolutely gorgeous game called Fated, where you move through a story with (and date) Shakespeare characters. Well, sort of. If you like visual novels
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Unreality](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/07/flash-fiction-friday-unreality/) - Okay yeah, it's Sunday but here we are. Today's tiny piece is brought to you by Sims 4 and the Star Trek holodeck. Enjoy! Unreality Annalise swiped lazily through the gallery, not quite knowing what she was looking for but also knowing just what she was looking for. It was a "know it when I
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Practice makes Plummet](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/06/flash-fiction-friday-practice-makes-plummet/) - This little snippet isn't based on a dream, but it's sort of a prequel of a story I want to write based on a dream. I hope you enjoy it! Practice makes Plummet I finish another set of breathing exercises and drink a small glass of water with a few drops of that tincture the
- [Flash Fiction Friday - An excess of ranch](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/05/flash-fiction-friday-an-excess-of-ranch/) - Just a little thing based on a dream :) Hope you enjoy it! An excess of ranch The first few time it had happened, I didn't even really notice. I mean, it's hardly unheard of, waking up in the morning and realizing that you had a packet of milk left after all, even though you
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Slice of Pandemic Life](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/05/flash-fiction-friday-slice-of-pandemic-life/) - Excuse the blithe title, I couldn't think of what else to call it. Just a little snippet, plucked right out of my day. Maybe not a story as such but oh well. Enjoy! Slice of Pandemic Life "Whole family went in," the man in front of me says, nodding toward the tent. He holds his
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Loneliness and Hatches](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/05/flash-fiction-friday-loneliness-and-hatches/) - I feel like I haven't written flash fic in about three years. But I'm back! Wooh! Today's piece is a bit macabre, and inspired by the creepy basement under my parents' summer home that a small part of my brain is always worried about falling into. Loneliness and Hatches They all said that it was
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Death Words](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/03/flash-fiction-friday-death-words/) - Today's flash fic piece was based on a prompt from Seventh Sanctum! And yes, the title is a bad D&D pun. Death Words She was absolutely positive he would be speaking, and we all knew what that meant. A few years ago, we might have debated the issue, might've doubted what she said but by
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Ground Where She Used To Walk](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/02/flash-fiction-friday-the-ground-where-she-used-to-walk/) - I don't know quite where this one came from, it just did. Enjoy! The Ground Where She Used To Walk “So...” I say as we step further into the orchard, where the branches of the apple trees are bent low with fruit not quite yet ready for picking. “When are you going to tell Grandmother?”
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Wall-runner](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/02/flash-fiction-friday-wall-runner/) - I've been reading through my next big WIP this week, and gods am I excited to be working on it. It's gonna be so good! Eventually... In the mean time, here's a little snippet of an unnamed side-character. She might not even turn up in the book, to be honest. I mostly wanted to explore
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Good Morning, Gary](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/01/flash-fiction-friday-good-morning-gary/) - For Thank Gods Its Indie this afternoon, I played a lovely little game called Speed Dating for Ghosts by Copychaser games and Laundry Bear. It was really enjoyable and unique, and thematically it reminded me a bit of Corinne Cross's Dead & Breakfast which I played a while ago, even if Speed Dating has maybe
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Souvenirs](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/01/flash-fiction-friday-souvenirs/) - Another Friday, another snippet based on a dream. The title makes little sense, to be honest, but I didn't know what else to name it. Enjoy! Souvenirs "Auntie!" I catch them as they're leaving the house, a whole clutch of young cousins and second cousins rotating around my aunt Pam and her friend Mary from
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Tropes in the snow](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2021/01/flash-fiction-friday-tropes-in-the-snow/) - Sometimes I just feel like having a poke at some D&D tropes, so here we are: Tropes in the snow "Bard!" the barbarian roared as the opening bars of the same song rang out from the lute for the fifth time that day. "You play that song one more time and I will smash your
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Chibi Cow](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/12/flash-fiction-friday-chibi-cow/) - I don't know y'all. It's a cow. It's cute. That's all I've got. Chibi Cow The cow, as it turned out, was the least of Lacey's problems. When she'd come home from work that Tuesday and found it on her front steps, she'd been rather stressed about it, but as the days slunk past the
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Return](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/12/flash-fiction-friday-the-return/) - The last two Sundays, I've spent my Solo Storytelling Sunday stream playing a wonderful map-making rpg called Lost in the Grey (by Mnemonic). I've had a ton of fun with it, and I have gotten quite fond of the story I've created through it - to the point where I might turn it into a
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Weresnakes and Pinefores](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/11/flash-fiction-friday-weresnakes-and-pinefores/) - A silly little piece based on a dream I had last night. I'm not sure it was actually a cute dress, but I sure thoughts so in the dream! Anyway, enjoy! Weresnakes and Pinefores "Oh hey, there's that dress we were looking at the other day." Belinda stopped, catching Rim by the arm to stop
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Is this your wormling?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/11/flash-fiction-friday-is-this-your-wormling/) - It's not terribly uncommon for me to write flash fic based on my own dreams but today I'm coming at you with a twist - flash fic based on my spouse's dream. A silly piece that I hope you enjoy! Is this your wormling? Amir was enjoying his entree and the fact that all of
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Sandalwood](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/11/flash-fiction-friday-sandalwood/) - Today's piece is very tiny. Hope you like it. Sandalwood As the world started swirling around me, all I could think was that the demon princess had an amazing fashion sense. It was a strange sort of comfort I was most likely being killed by someone who knew how to dress the part. She'd been
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Critical Cinnamon Roll](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/10/flash-fiction-friday-critical-cinnamon-roll/) - So I was watching Critical Roll earlier and I was kind of taken with one of the random NPCs in this week's episode (hence the dorky title). Enjoy! Critical Cinnamon Roll He stood outside the window of the bakery just watching for far longer than he'd planned to. Long enough that people cast him odd
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Waiting for Fairies](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/10/flash-fiction-friday-waiting-for-fairies/) - A short little thingy today, inspired by the lovely golden light I had a walk in earlier. Have a great weekend, everyone! Waiting for Fairies Golden light danced across the park from a break in the dark grey October clouds. The sun was on its way down, and clearly determined to make an impression before
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Vengeance-Red](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/10/flash-fiction-friday-vengeance-red/) - Tonight I came to think of an old idea for a D&D character class that I might try to build one day. I had the idea years ago, and even wrote this old piece of flash fiction about it, and I'm not sure why it was on my mind tonight but I do really like
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Witching Hour](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/10/flash-fiction-friday-the-witching-hour/) - September really wasn't a good flash fic month for me, but I'm hoping October will be different. It's off to a good start at least. I quite like this little piece. It's based on a prompt from the writing bot on my Discord (which you can find here to add to your own Discord if
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Vessel](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/01/flash-fiction-friday-the-vessel/) - I was temping today and while the kids in my pre-lunch session were working independently I had a sudden flash of inspiration and wrote the following: She was in the middle of instructing a group of eight graders on what would be part of their test on demographics the following week when she heard that
- [Flash Fiction Friday- No Time For Imps](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/09/flash-fiction-friday-no-time-for-imps/) - I had a tiny little dream when I was napping earlier today, so here's a tiny little flash fic piece. I think it's conceptually related to The Vessel, a flash fic piece I wrote over two years ago. No Time For Imps As sleep receded she became aware that someone, something, was watching her. With
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The New Guest](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/08/flash-fiction-friday-the-new-guest/) - Earlier tonight I played an absolutely adorable game for my Thank Gods It's Indie stream. It was called "Corinne Cross's Dead & Breakfast", made by Bad Chalk Games, and is a girl who is put in charge of a haunted B&B. I had a great time playing it! The story was very heartwarming and the
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Hunter pt. 2](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/08/flash-fiction-friday-hunter-pt-2/) - I felt like poking this idea from last week a bit more tonight, so here we are. Not as strong, I think, but I'm still enjoying dipping my toes into this character and seeing what I find. Not totally sure where this is going but we'll see. Hunter pt. 2 I get to the village
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Hunter](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/08/flash-fiction-friday-hunter/) - I used a prompt generator, a Discord bot called Writer-Bot, for my prompt tonight. The line was "I had never woken up in the middle of an impact crater before". I changed it to present tense, and am pretty happy with the results. Enjoy! Hunter I have never woken up in the middle of an
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Tech Difficulties](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/07/flash-fiction-friday-tech-difficulties/) - Last weekend for my new Solo Storytelling Sunday stream (every 2 Sundays at 10 am CEST, be there!), I played a game called Superhuman Industrial and Immaterial, Incorporated. It was a ton of fun and I'm definitely playing it again some day. I really liked the little story I wrote while playing, to such a
- [Flash Fiction Friday - One O Too Many](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/07/flash-fiction-friday-one-o-too-many/) - It's Friday! Happy Friday! I actually have flash fiction today. As so often, this one is based on a prompt. Today's prompt came from Writer-Bot, a Discord utility bot I use that has prompts and other stuff, and it was the following: " A soldier has to rethink their strategy after a spelling error proves
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Little Stars](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/06/flash-fiction-friday-little-stars/) - I was listening to a podcast episode recently that talked about the urban legend of black-eyed kids and it gave me some ideas, one of which was the below. Enjoy! Little Stars “About fucking time!” Elle hissed as Tam slipped in through the door and closed it behind them with their hip. “What took you
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Inciting Incident](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/05/flash-fiction-friday-inciting-incident/) - Just a little something I threw together because I was thinking about how rarely we get portal fantasies and other real-world adjacent fantasy stories with adult protagonists. Hope you like it! Inciting Incident It wasn’t the lemon curd that was the problem. Lydia was like 98% sure of that At first she’d thought it was
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Someday](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/05/flash-fiction-friday-someday/) - Presented without comment: Someday I imagine there'll be sun spilling in through the window, painting golden streaks across the bedspread and the pillows that trail all the way to the door. I imagine there's birdsong coming in through a slightly opened window. I imagine I've been up for a little while, sipping tea out of
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Lucid Dreaming](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/04/flash-fiction-friday-lucid-dreaming/) - Tonight's flash fiction is unusually short for being me, and the idea came from an episode of Clear Skies (a totally rad Star Trek rpg that you should totally watch). Hope you enjoy it! Lucid Dreaming She was having the dream again. The landscape was a mess of roiling, twisted shapes, painted in putrid colors.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Confession](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/04/flash-fiction-friday-confession/) - Tonight's Flash Fiction Friday is inspired by the following prompt from the writing bot on my Discord: [268] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." I didn't
- [Flash Fiction Fraturday - What Love Means](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/12/flash-fiction-fraturday-what-love-means/) - I've been watching a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generation lately and having a lot of feelings about how Deanna Troi is treated as a character and the weird romantic-adjacent situations she keeps being placed in by the show's writers (and how little screen time her friendship with Beverly Crusher gets). So I decided
- [Patreon Re-opened (Worldbuilding adjascent)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/03/patreon-re-opened-worldbuilding-adjascent/) - Hi everyone! This is just a little note to let you know that my Patreon is now off hiatus and active once more, as of last week.I'm very excited! There's a post (open to patrons and others alike) about that here, where I also explain some changes I've made to it. For those of you
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Falling, Flying](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/03/flash-fiction-friday-falling-flying/) - I was poking about my Scrivener files last night and found a little thing, just two sentences, that I wrote back in 2015. I think I got the idea from a dream, and it's just been sitting there since. I guess it just spoke to me somehow, so here it is in a little more
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Judgement](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/03/flash-fiction-friday-judgement/) - I feel like I say this every time I post these days but: wow, it's been a while, huh? Anyway, here is a slightly macabre little piece, inspired by something I dreamed this morning. I hope you enjoy it! Judgement Alena saw a figure moving through the dark. They had all stepped into the Hall
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Going Up](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2020/01/flash-fiction-friday-going-up/) - I wasn't sure what to write tonight, so I asked the bot in my Discord server for a prompt and got the following: "As the elevator door is about to close, you lock eyes with someone on the other side – someone from the past." Somehow this resulted in a weirdly introspective piece, looking back
- [AdventBoost 2019 - 6 Cool Computer Games](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/12/adventboost-2019-6-cool-computer-games/) - I was originally planning to post this on Christmas Eve, or maybe Christmas Day but since my third AdventBoost post got delayed, so did this one. Oh well, at least I got it in this side of the new year! I've been playing more computer games this year than I usually do (at least in
- [Adventboost 2019 - 6 TTRPGs I'd Love to Play!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/12/adventboost-2019-6-ttrpgs-id-love-to-play/) - Note: I intended to post this on the 18th, then on the 19th, the 20th etc. I really don't know why I got so damned stuck on this post - I kept faffing about which order to put things in and how to tie them together etc. So in an effort to get this done
- [AdventBoost 2019 - 6 Wonderful Books](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/12/adventboost-2019-6-wonderful-books/) - I'm back for my second AdventBoost post of the year. This time, I have some wonderful books I'd like to recommend to you. I'll be honest - I haven't been reading as much as I'd've preferred this year, but I did read enough to provide you with 6 titles I highly enjoyed, and hope you
- [AdventBoost 2019 - 6 Etsy Shops](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/12/adventboost-2019-6-etsy-shops/) - It's December! The month where I go ham with various forms of advent calendars. This year I have a tea swap calendar, a Body Shop calendar and the usual gift calendar with my parents. I'm also doing a sort of video calendar on YouTube called vlogmas (check my YouTube channel out here) and, because I
- [Flash Fiction Friday - When?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/12/flash-fiction-friday-when/) - Tonight's flash fiction is based on what might be the worst night of my life. In real life, though, the "the texts were from him all along!"-twist was only a dream, and my friend came back the next morning, all smiles. Hope you enjoy this darker reality: When? I knew all along that it was
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Dreams and Rebels](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/11/flash-fiction-friday-dreams-and-rebels/) - Oh hey, it's a flash fiction Friday post! It's been a while, or at least it feels like it. This piece is inspired by my partner sleep-talking, and me being in a mood for the (perhaps) unexpected. Hope you enjoy! Dreams and Rebels "How'sa rebellion?" Jac and I shot each other a look over Cal's
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Skoskav](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/11/flash-fiction-friday-skoskav/) - A little lesbian meet-cute for you this Friday! Inspired by my own feet today, though I sadly did not get a meet-cute. The title is a Swedish word meaning "shoe chafing". Enjoy! Skoskav "Must be a good book." Liliana started and looked up. One of the baristas was peering curiously at her, a bucket of
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - My Fundamental Questions](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/10/worldbuilding-wednesday-my-fundamental-questions/) - Since I didn't do my worldbuilding stream Sunday, I don't have any fun tidbits of progress to share with you today. Instead, I want to talk a little about one of the hardest things about worldbuilding (especially if you're new): where to start? There are a lot of different advice on this out there, and
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Chosen One](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/10/flash-fiction-friday-the-chosen/) - I'm reading a YA fantasy series right now and it has me thinking about Chosen Ones. Not my favorite trope all told, though not my least favorite either. Recently it occurred to me how rarely the Chosen One in a book knows they're special, how usually they dismiss the strange things that happen to them
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - When Dots Connect](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/10/worldbuilding-wednesday-when-dots-connect/) - I ended up not posting a Worldbuilding Wednesday last week, as some of you may have noticed. I probably had a good reason at the time, but to be honest I genuinely can't remember what it was. Oh well! In the end, skipping a post turned out to be a good choice because my worldbuilding
- [Flash Fiction Fraturday - Aquamarine](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/10/flash-fiction-fraturday-aquamarine/) - I wasn't going to catch up on Flash Fiction Friday after I missed it yesterday, but then I had a tiny, very silly idea. Here you go: Aquamarine Steph awoke, and for a moment she wasn't sure why she felt so amused. As the dream came back to her, she chuckled softly and rubbed her
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Too Much, Too Soon](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/10/worldbuilding-wednesday-too-much-too-soon/) - Reader, I abandoned the challenge. But honestly, that's okay. It was a little too much a little too soon, and since it was a spontaneous decision to join and not part of my original plan for the month, I'm not kicking myself about it. I lasted about 5 days before dropping out. It wasn't actually
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Report on the Demise of the Smelters](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/10/flash-fiction-friday-report-on-the-demise-of-the-smelters/) - As I mentioned in my newest Worldbuilding Wednesday post (they're back, yay), I'm currently doing a worldbuilding challenge arranged by World Anvil. For Thursday's entry (though I didn't write it until today), I wrote a small article called False Children, about a sort of monster in one of my worlds. Afterward the piece below popped
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - The Return + Inktober Writer's Gauntlet](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/10/worldbuilding-wednesday-the-return-inktober-writers-gauntlet/) - Lately I've been itching to breathe a little more life back into my blog. Other than my Flash Fiction Friday posts, I don't really post anything regularly and I miss the days when I used to. What I miss the most, though, are my Worldbuilding Wednesday posts. I honestly can't remember why I stopped writing
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Tiniest Friend](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/09/flash-fiction-friday-the-tiniest-friend/) - It's Friiiiday! Look at me actually posting flash fiction! I was doing some window shopping on Etsy earlier today and found this shop full of adorable little fantasy figurines! So cute! They sort of combined with the Tea Dragon Society in my head and created this little piece. Hope you like it! The Tiniest Friend
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Portal](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/08/flash-fiction-friday-the-portal/) - About time I got back to these posts! This one is inspired by a perpetually out of order stall in a bathroom at a nearby mall. I gotta admit, now that I've written this I kinda wanna turn it into a longer story... Hope you like it! The Portal "What the fuck??"Tina blinked slowly at
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Pocket Watches and Cocoa](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/07/flash-fiction-friday-pocket-watches-and-cocoa/) - Tonight I played a board game that's all about when things (inventions, historical events etc) happened in relation to other things. While playing, I was surprised to find out that apparently portable watches a thing before cocoa first came to Europe. I was so surprised - I would've guessed it was the other way around.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Re-burial](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/07/flash-fiction-friday-re-burial/) - I didn't have anything particular in mind for tonight's flash fic piece, so I used a random prompt generator. This is the prompt it gave me: "I stand by the graveside. We are burying Uncle Eric. Again." I just sort of ran with it. Enjoy! Re-burial I stand by the graveside. We are burying Uncle
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Composition](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/07/flash-fiction-friday-composition/) - Today, on my Friday indie game stream, I played a lovely little puzzle game called Engare. It was really fun, and very beautiful. Like, just look at this level selection screen: Pretty, isn't it? I really enjoyed the game, and it caused patterns to be on my mind, so they're sort of the theme of
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The First Stitch](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/06/flash-fiction-friday-the-first-stitch/) - I'm doing some worldbuilding for a story of mine on stream on Sunday, and thinking about it made me write this little "off screen" scene from that story. Enjoy! The First Stitch "Well..." he said, turning the belt over in his hand to expect the other side once more. "At least it is well-made." "Did
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Rise Up, Save the World](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/05/flash-fiction-friday-rise-up-save-the-world/) - Today I did something really fun! Recently I've introduced a regular feature on my Twitch called "Thank Gods it's Indie", where I play small indie games on Fridays. Today, I played a game called Rise Up, Save the World on my stream. This game is made by a writing friend of mine called Mayara Barros
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Wishful Thinking](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/05/flash-fiction-friday-wishful-thinking/) - Here's a bit of wishful thinking in the form of prose. The first little bit is autobiographical except for the names. Art imitating life and all, hah! Hope you enjoy this silliness. Wishful Thinking "Downloading... 23 %" Mina fidgeted with her phone, watching the numbers slowly tick upward. Way more slowly than they should be.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Matchmaker](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/05/flash-fiction-friday-the-matchmaker/) - I saw this anecdote (maybe true, maybe not, no idea) somewhere on the net today about a farmer who caught his wife with one of his farmhands, and when the farmhand started to pack his stuff the farmer said they could both love her and if that wasn't enough he'd hire another farmhand to help
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Eventually](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/04/flash-fiction-friday-eventually/) - Today's flash fic is inspired by the cashier at the board game store checking that I knew I had the kid's version of a game. When I don't know what to write, I seem to gravitate toward meet-cutes lately. Eventually Angie sighed and shoved the box back into her bag. What a silly thing to
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Magpie Clones](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/04/flash-fiction-friday-magpie-clones/) - Have you ever had one of those dreams where things seem rather normal but then suddenly there’s one detail that just doesn’t make sense, a little thing that makes you go “this isn’t really happening, is it?”. Last night I dreamed we had a dog. Great dream, great dog. Except after a while dream-me remarked
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Re: re: Just an October hello](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/04/flash-fiction-friday-re-re-just-an-october-hello/) - A lot of different media I'm consuming are touching on reincarnation and otherwise getting a new body right now, so here's a little thing that popped into my brain.I really enjoy writing in this sort of style sometimes, letters or journal entries or that sort of thing. Hope you like it! Re: re: Just an
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Waiting To Board](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/04/flash-fiction-friday-waiting-to-board/) - Technically it's Saturday here but I go by my usual rule of "it's Friday until I go to sleep" so here's a Flash Fiction Friday snippet. It's a tiny meet-cute! Waiting To Board His thumb hovered over the screen, ready to tap the moment the next, and final, question of the night. It wasn't often
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Perfect Cabin](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/03/flash-fiction-friday-the-perfect-cabin/) - Just a wee thing for you tonight... The Perfect Cabin I walk down the path, peering past the trees as I go. I search for dark brown logs, doors and window-frames painted blue, like the description said. There are so many cabins here, huddled among the pines. Small, simple ones without a lick of paint,
- [Flash Fiction Friday - New Shiny](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/03/flash-fiction-friday-new-shiny/) - Going a bit meta with today's piece. I saw a prompt to write something set and a train and this was just what came to mind when I started typing. New Shiny Her favorite part was when the train pulled out of the station. It always was - that feeling of the acceleration in her
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Perfect](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/03/flash-fiction-friday-perfect/) - I've been browsing a lot of gender feels-themed Pinterest boards lately and this scene popped into my head. I couldn't pick which pronouns to use for the character, so I just didn't use any at all. It was interesting exercise, though I feel like it made the prose a bit convoluted in places but hey
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Disappointment](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/03/flash-fiction-friday-disappointment/) - I'm back! About bloody time, too. Here's a dollop of melancholia for you this Friday evening: Disappointment The waves lap leisurely at the shore and my toes dig into the sand a little with each step. I know the footprints will last only a few moments under the onslaught of the water, but my eyes
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Serving Tea](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2019/02/flash-fiction-friday-serving-tea/) - Flash! Fiction! Friday! It's been a while, huh? This little piece is a sort of behind-the-scenes snippet from a story I started working on last year. It was originally meant to be a short story but it sorta grew into a novella. Oops! Writing this snippet really made me wanna work on that story again!
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Pink Converse](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/12/flash-fiction-friday-pink-converse/) - What?? A Flash Fiction Friday post? At long last! November and the first half of December were intense, and now things are pivoting toward chill again so I finally had time and the right headspace to do some flash fiction again. I used a prompt from a Discord bot called Writer-Bot (which I recommend, by
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Practical Uses for Superpowers (#3)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/10/practical-uses-for-superpowers-3/) - This Flash Fiction piece isn't at all wish fulfillment for the hectic evening I'm having. Nope. Not at all. Jennie yawned and adjusted the popcorn bowl in her lap as the next episode began playing on the screen. Gosh, going splitsies always made her feel so drained. Today was no different. Still, she felt sure
- [Practical Uses for Superpowers (#2)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/10/practical-uses-for-superpowers-2/) - I am so sleepy tonight. Here is a thing: "Come on, come on...." She mumbled as she watched the numbers on the elevator slowly creep lower. Once it finally dinged and the door slid open, she was inside in a heartbeat and pressing close-door button. The ride up to the 7th floor was the slowest
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Practical Uses of Superpowers (#1?)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/09/flash-fiction-friday-practical-uses-of-superpowers-1/) - This piece is pracically autobiographical - apart from the fact that I don't have telekinetic powers, and that my name isn't Mandy. But if I did have telekinetic powers, this is exactly the sort of thing I'd use them for. I think it might be fun to do a while series about ways in which superpowers
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Språkförbistring](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/09/flash-fiction-friday-sprakforbistring/) - The title of today's flash fiction post, Språkförbistring, is a Swedish word I haven't really found an English translation I like for. It refers to the idea of communication failing due to speaking past each other or just not understanding the language being used. It's apparently used in the Swedish Bible to refer to the whole
- [Flash Fiction Friday - A Change of Seasons](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/09/flash-fiction-friday-a-change-of-seasons/) - It feels like I haven't written flash fiction, or anything really, in ages. But I'm finally over this cold I've had enough that I could sit down and finish the flash fic piece I started last week - and I am very happy about it! This snippet is me dipping my toes into a new
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The First Willow](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/08/flash-fiction-friday-the-first-willow/) - I asked for a flash fiction prompt on Twitter today and my friend Sophia was kind enough to provide one. The prompt was to write a creation story including a willow tree, an ocean and shooting stars. Here's my attempt: Long before the world was as it is now, there was only ocean and the
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Friends and Enemies](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/08/flash-fiction-friday-friends-and-enemies/) - I sort of forgot it was Friday today and was about ready to go to bed when I remembered. Since I've been slacking with my flash fiction lately due to Camp NaNoWriMo, I decided to stay up and whip something up. This little scene from the back-story of Sarge, my Blades in the Darks character,
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Breaking Camp](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/07/flash-fiction-friday-breaking-camp/) - I've had orcs on the brain lately. I've been seeing so many lovely interpretations of them on Pinterest the last few weeks that I've started toying with the idea of writing a book set in an orcish society. To toy a little with the concept, I wrote the following: Breaking Camp "Track-makers!" Chieftain's voice rang
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Ferrets and Fucked-Up Shoulders](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/07/flash-fiction-friday-ferrets-and-fucked-up-shoulders/) - I've posted a few snippets set in the tabletop rpg Blades in the Dark before, and since I'm currently playing in a campaign set in the system I thought it would be fun to write a snippet with my character! Isabel, more known as Sarge, is an ex-military grump who isn't sure why she's involved
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Water Ballet](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/06/flash-fiction-friday-the-water-ballet/) - My Dungeons & Dragons group are about to start a new campaign soon, which will be set in the world of one of my favorite tabletop rpg shows Critical Role. I'll be playing a halfling druid, who I suspect will be quite adorable. We did a short session zero type thing, and I wrote this
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Rescue Mission](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/06/the-rescue-mission/) - On Monday the boyfriend and I went to see Avengers: Infinity War in the cinema. While I did not generally like the movie, there were a few things in it I did like and one of those was the special effects for Dr. Strange's portal powers. I don't know what it was, but they just tickled me!
- [Flash Fiction Friday - A Thorny Twist](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/06/flash-fiction-friday-a-thorny-twist/) - This past Wednesday, on Sweden's national day, I was at a market and I saw this older woman who just had the most amazing look. She looked like a steampunk witch and I wanted to compliment her outfit but I was honestly too intimidated. I found myself thinking, though, "gosh, I'd like to write a
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Priorities](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/05/flash-fiction-friday-priorities/) - I forgot to post this yesterday as I was out at a barbecue and came home quite late, but here is this week's flash fiction Friday post. I start it during Sunday Morning Tea Time last week (oh hey, check out my Twitch channel!) and finished it the other day. It's based on a prompt
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Downtime](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/05/flash-fiction-friday-downtime/) - Ah, it’s Friday! And I’ve got some flash fiction for y’all! Today’s piece is inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, and is about how sometimes adventurers need downtime... and sometimes they need some me-time. Downtime The tavern was rowdy, but when were they not? Fiddles, pipe smoke, people arguing or making out or both. Just another
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Jailbreak](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/04/flash-fiction-friday-the-jailbreak/) - It's been such a long time since I posted something for flash fiction Friday! But tonight, since I've realized my Camp NaNo project, which I thought was a 10-15k short, has ballooned into a 25k+ novella which I therefore won't be able to actually finish by the end of the month, I decided to take
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Cross-Eyed Bear That You Gave To Me](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/03/flash-fiction-friday-the-cross-eyed-bear-that-you-gave-to-me/) - "I'm here to remind you of the cross eye bear that you gave to me," sang Alanis Morisette in the song You Ought to Know. But while listening to it during a car trip today, my parents heard something else. Inspired by this, I hereby introduce this week's Flash Fiction piece, The Cross-eyed Bear That
- [Flash Fiction Fraturday - Waiting For Monkey Analogues](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/03/flash-fiction-fraturday-waiting-for-monkey-analogues/) - I've been watching a lot of a Doctor Who RPG over on Geek & Sundry lately (it's called Eric's TBD RPG, and if you're an Alpha subscriber you should check it out cuz it's great!) and all the timey-wimeyness of it has had me thinking about my own timetravel-related story, whose WIP name is The Cave.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - One Of Those Trips](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/03/flash-fiction-friday-one-of-those-trips/) - Another week, another space-themed flash fiction piece! This one isn't intended to be a Star Trek thing but I keep using Star Trek vocab so whatever. Enjoy! Francie looked out through the large viewing window, bracing herself against the familiar jolt as the ship left orbit and the planet below began drawing further and further
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Obvious Werewolf Story?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/03/flash-fiction-friday-obvious-werewolf-story/) - Another Friday, another Seventh Sanctum prompt. Today I used the Writing Challenge generator which gave me the following. "The story ends in a big city. The story takes place in the afternoon. During the story, there is an assassination. The story must have a werewolf in it.". I decided to go very basic with it...
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Not Batman](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/03/flash-fiction-friday-not-batman/) - Couldn't get my flash fiction done on time yesterday because I was busy finishing my Patreon exclusive short for March (yo, you should sponsor me on Patreon!). So her it is today instead! It's a silly little thing, based on a Seventh Sanctum prompt. Enjoy! The police chief was my guiding star and the fire
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Docking](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/02/flash-fiction-friday-docking/) - I've been watching a lot of Star Trek lately. Been making my way through The Original Series and also watching Shield of Tomorrow, a Star Trek rpg show on Geek & Sundry. This has all lead me to be in a space ship and alien sort of mood, so I wrote this little piece: ​"Attention all passengers."
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Just Another Monday](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/02/flash-fiction-friday-just-another-monday/) - Another week, another Seventh Sanctum prompt! First line, as usual: All the demon lords where giggling, but what else was new? They were always giggling. In fact, if Helen didn't know any better she'd say they always giggled extra on Monday morning when everyone else was sleepy and cranky and unhappy to be there. It would
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Eighth Plauge](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/02/flash-fiction-friday-the-eighth-plauge/) - I was battling a cold last week and ended up having a nearly writing-free week, so there was no Flash Fiction posted. But now I'm back. This week I switched my twitch schedule around so that my writing stream is on Tuesday instead of Thursdays. It works better with my university schedule this term. So, check
- [Twice Fortnightly No More](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/01/twice-fortnightly-no-more/) - Today I came to a decision. Unlike far too many of my decisions, I can honestly say the entire process from thinking I should make a decision to actually making and executing it happened in the same day. The decision is this: I'm going to stop writing my Twice Fortnightly blogs. I've been doing these
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Reluctant Emperor](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/01/flash-fiction-friday-reluctant-emperor/) - I've got a tiny morsel of a fiction piece for you today. As so often, this one comes from a prompt taken from Seventh Sanctum. I never wanted to be an evil emperor. All this pillaging and burning of cities, all these hubristic, grandiose speeches... it's just not in my nature. But you do what
- [Twice Fortnightly - Getting There](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/01/twice-fortnightly-getting-there/) - I did a bit better with my time tracking this week! I still relied a bit too heavily on the 4TheWords automatic timer, with all it's pauses, but toward the weekend I remembered to actually manually track my editing work. Go me! Overall my writing week had a bumpy start but got smoother, and hopefully
- [Prompt Poetry Priday!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/01/prompt-poetry-priday/) - I didn’t have time for flash fiction today so here’s a bonus poem instead: Roses are red Violets are cheap I played board games all night and now I need to sleep Good night lovelies!
- [Twice Fortnightly - A Good Time, but How Much of it?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/01/twice-fortnightly-a-good-time-but-how-much-of-it/) - Last week was a good writing week. Gods, I love those! I want every week to be one of those, to be honest. In spite of that, I only registered 12 writing hours in my tracker which feels like it's quite a bit lower than the time I actually spent. I think I may have
- [Flash Fiction.... Fraturday? - The Death of the Mutant](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/01/flash-fiction-fraturday-the-death-of-the-mutant/) - The problem with writing my flash fiction pieces during my Thursday morning stream is sometimes I forget to actually post them. I need to take up doing scheduled posts just after stream ends so that I don't have to make any Fraturday posts. But today, we'll have one anyway: Once upon a time, a mutant
- [Writing Goals for 2018 + First Twice Fortnightly of the Year](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2018/01/writing-goals-for-2018-first-twice-fortnightly-of-the-year/) - 2017 is over. And, like... phew! I feel like that's all I can say about it when it's been a bad year for me but so much worse for so much of the world. So instead, let's talk about 2018! As the regular reader of this blog knows, I like goals. I find them helpful
- [Flash Fiction Friday - My Name is TAI](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/flash-fiction-friday-my-name-is-tai/) - I was talking with my boyfriend yesterday about tropes for artificial intelligences in fiction, and thought to myself that it would be interesting to see an AI character that wanted to make the world better for humans rather than being willing to sacrifice humans for the sake of humanity (if that makes sense). This scene
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 24 - Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-24-killer-of-enemies-by-joseph-bruchac/) - Last Adventboost of the year. And it'll be a short one, because I need to get going back to my parents' place for Christmas lunch soon. Today I'm boosting: Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac Killer of Enemies is a post-apocalyptic YA novel with a teenage Apache girl as main character. And honestly, that was about
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 23 - Serafina's Flame by J.C. Hart](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-23-serafinas-flame-by-j-c-hart/) - So, as a rule I only boost things I've actually read/watched/generally consumed in some way, but I'm making a sort of half-exception today. You'll see why below. Anyway, today I'm boosting: Serafina's Flame by J.C. Hart Serafina's Flame is a fantasy novel about three women who are called by their near-forgotten goddess to save their
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 22 - 195 Lewis](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-22-195-lewis/) - Last year, I boosted the webseries Compersion! This year I've got a recommendation for another black, polyamorous show: 195 Lewis 195 Lewis is a super cool webseries about a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in NYC. I heard about it quite a while back, but it wasn't out yet them so it's just been
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Next Year's Beads](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/flash-fiction-friday-next-years-beads/) - Since it is the holiday season, I've been thinking a lot about creating holidays for fictional worlds. The other day I had an idea for a tradition I may use some day in a book, so I wrote this little piece below: The ribbons are slippery between my fingers, and the house is quiet except
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 20 & 21 - Ash Hardell & Jessica Kellgren-Fozard](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-20-21-ash-hardell-jessica-kellgren-fozard/) - Hey everyone, welcome to another rendition of "Emma was super busy yesterday so she'd posting a two-for-one boost of similar things". Last night I played D&D and then went for beers and was out waaaay later than I had planned. Oops! But anyway, today I'm boosting two YouTubers: Ash Hardell Ash Hardell is queer
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 19 - The Letter by Yangyang Mobile](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-19-the-letter-by-yangyang-mobile/) - Lately, I've been getting kind of into watching visual novels. Yes, that's right, I didn't say playing visual novels, I said watching. That is, watching some streamer I like play one. I don't know if I'd actually enjoy playing one myself, just because I'm neither much of a gamer or particularly patient and visual novels usually requires
- [Twice Fortnightly - Almost over the hurdle](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/twice-fortnightly-almost-over-the-hurdle/) - Tonight I turned in my second to last term paper. The last one is already a week late (aaaah!) but should be finished tomorrow (yaaaay!). Which means that on Wednesday, I can finally shift my focus back to writing (have really only done Adventboost in the last week or two and nothing else), with the
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 18 - Unicornland](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-18-unicornland/) - Another day, another "Hey I posted a similar thing this day last year!". Last year, I wrote about the polyamory-themed YouTube show Compersion, and today I'm here to tell you about a different one: Unicornland Unicornland is an 8 episode web series about Annie, who has recently gotten divorced and is exploring having sex with
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 16 & 17 - Gays of Our Lives by Kris Ripper & Knit One Girl Two by Shira Glassman](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-16-17-gays-of-our-lives-by-kris-ripper-knit-one-girl-two-by-shira-glassman/) - Last night I went to a lovely julbord with some very good friends of mine. I had a lovely time, and the food was absolutely delicious. Afterward, the boyfriend and I spent some time watching some streamers we like play a visual novel game called The Letter and somehow blanked entirely on the fact that time was passing and
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 15 - Raarurien by Ann Maulina](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-15-raruurien-by-ann-maulina/) - Last year my Adventboost contained several webcomics. Not so this year; I guess I just haven't started reading that many new comics this year. But, I have started reading at least one that deserves boosting: Raruurien by Ann Maulina When a portrait of the main character from Raruurien, Rien, first drifted across my Twitter feed
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 14 - Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-day-14-failure-to-communicate/) - Hey, ho, it's Thursday! And I skipped my writing stream on Twitch this am. Booh! Unfortunately, the term papers I have left are leaving no time for that sort of thing this week. Fun as this has been, I am really looking forward to being done with the term in, I hope, just a few
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 13 - 163 För Evigt](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-13-163-for-evigt/) - Today is St. Lucia's Day! In Sweden, that generally means saffron buns and pretty music, so I thought this was a good day to boost: 163 För Evigt by Cherrie The other week I had one of those magical Twitter moments when you find out about something that's just around the corner from you, via
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 12 - Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-12-chameleon-moon-by-roanna-sylver/) - Have you ever wanted to read about an apocalyptic dystopia but like... one full of fluff and love and cuteness? Then you should read: Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver is a wonderful little enigma of a book that's simultaneously one of the grimmest dystopias I've ever read and one of the
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 11 - Iwunen Insterstellar Investigations by Bogi Takács](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-11-iwunen-insterstellar-investigations-by-bogi-takacs/) - Last year I boosted the book blog Bogi Reads the World, run by Bogi Takács. This year, on the same day of the month, I am back to boost Bogi some more but this time I would like to recommend: Iwunen Insterstellar Investigations by Bogi Takács Iwunen Interstellar Investigations is a web serial that centers
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 10 - Wet Nails by Shira Glassman](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-10-wet-nails-by-shira-glassman/) - Another day, another sexy Adventboost! Today I want to tell you about: Wet Nails by Shira Glassman Wet Nails is a short, sexy read that... I legit can't remember where I found it. Twitter probably. I get all my good recs on Twitter nowadays. Anyway, Wet Nails is a short erotic story about a bisexual
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 9 - So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-9-so-sweet-by-rebekah-weatherspoon/) - [Insert some kind of relevant intro that I couldn't actually think of here] so today I'm boosting: So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon So Sweet is a erotic romance with a side-order of comedy (I mean, it's hella funny, don't get me wrong, but mainly it's a really hot romance, in my opinion) by Rebekah Weatherspoon and is
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Supernatural Shelter](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/flash-fiction-friday-supernatural-shelter/) - NaNo is done, so Flash Fiction Friday is back! Yay! I've been watching a lot of a TV show called Grimm lately which is sort of a cop show with supernatural creatures. It's pretty good, but once in a while when I watch it I wish there was a more slow-paced supernaturally themed drama, like maybe
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 8 - Reimena Ashel Yee](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-8-reimena-ashel-yee/) - First visual artist boost of the year, yay! Reimena Ashel Yee Reimena Ashel Yee is an illustrator and comics artist who I discovered through a random retweet by someone on Twitter earlier this year. I believe she is Malaysian with some ties to Australia, but if I am wrong on that I will happily correct
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 7 - On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-7-on-the-edge-of-gone-by-corinne-duyvis/) - Today I'm bringing you one of those boosts that really don't need my help in promoting it but that's just so dang good I have to do it anyway. On The Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis On The Edge of Gone is not so much a post-apocalyptic YA novel as it is a inter-apocalyptic
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 6 - Couple-ish](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-6-couple-ish/) - Last year for Adventboost, one of the things I was pondering boosting but couldn't make my mind up about (mainly because at the time I was unsure of whether the creatives involved were characterizable as "marginalized" or not) is the rather entertaining YouTube series Carmilla (based, I believe, on a book of the same name).
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 5 - Coffee Boy by Austin Chant](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-5-coffee-boy-by-austin-chant/) - Another day closer to Christmas, another blog post about a lovely book! Today I want to tell you about Coffee Boy by Austin Chant Coffee Boy, released last year, is a M/M romance with a trans MC. It was recommended to me when I was looking for a trans-lead romance to read for the Diversity
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 4 - Survival Rout by Ana Mardoll](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-4-survival-rout-by-ana-mardoll/) - Last year on the 4th I boosted Ana Mardoll's brilliant book Poison Kiss and since its sequel is one of my absolute favorite 2017 reads, I thought it was only appropriate to boost it on the same day. Survival Rout by Ana Mardoll Survival Rout is the second of Ana Mardoll's Earthside books, a series
- [Twice Fortnightly - Coming Down From NaNo](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/twice-fortnightly-coming-down-from-nano/) - So, another December has begun and another NaNoWriMo has been won. Last week was a tough one, to be honest. I won NaNo by the skin of my teeth and the last part of the draft was a bit of a mess as my outline got derailed by worldbuilding details that came up organically while
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 3 - Mona Haydar](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-3-mona-haydar/) - Welcome back to Adventboost! December 3rd, and also the first Advent Sunday. My goodness! Only 3 weeks left until Christmas Eve (the Big Day here in Sweden) and honestly... I'm excited. I am ready for the food. Last night I baked the first batch of gingerbread cookies, and listened to Tori Amos' Midwinter Graces for the first time since
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 2 - Gunrunners by Cecil Wilde](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-2-gunrunners-by-cecil-wilde/) - (Psst. Have you checked out yesterday's boost about the hashtag #Showupforwishes? Cuz you should!) And now, on to today's boost! Gunrunners by Cecil Wilde Today I want to tell you about a lovely book called Gunrunners which, as its synopsis says, is "a short queer space adventure by Cecil Wilde". This was one of those books
- [Adventboost 2017 - Day 1 - #ShowUpForWishes](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/12/adventboost-2017-day-1-showupforwishes/) - Last year, I ran a blog post series I called AdventBoost with daily posts between December 1st and Christmas Eve, each featuring a marginalized creative or a work by a marginalized creative that I think you should all check out. You can check out last year's AdventBoost posts here. Do it! Lots of great stuff,
- [Twice Fortnightly - Hi there! Bye there!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/11/twice-fortnightly-hi-there-bye-there/) - Hello! Tiny little blog update time! Cuz it's just one of those nights when I don't have too much to say and my week can basically be described as "more NaNo!". I hit 30k, had a lot of fun with my draft including a Thursday Morning Tea Time stream with some brainstorming, and I even
- [Twice Fortnightly - Catching Up!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/11/twice-fortnightly-catching-up/) - Two NaNo weeks down, two and change to go! And it's finally starting to feel like NaNo to me. As I mentioned last week, I had a really slow start this time. As of this weekend, I feel like I've finally gotten into the flow with the story, which is a delightful feeling. I wrote 3.5k yesterday!
- [Twice Fortnightly - A Slow but Steady Start](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/11/twice-fortnightly-a-slow-but-steady-start/) - One week into NaNo, and I am off to a slow but steady start. I am behind, for sure, but I am slowly catching up. Yay for that! I'm really enjoying working on this story, but there's an edge of nervousness to that enjoyment because I really want it to turn out not just good
- [Twice Fortnightly - A Pre-NaNo Triumph!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/twice-fortnightly-a-pre-nano-triumph/) - Tonight I hit a pretty major and exciting milestone. I finished the first draft of the 3rd Orryn Novella! I decided that I wanted to finish it, mess of a draft that it is, before NaNoWriMo so I wrote the last scene or two, about 1.5k words, tonight. The draft is going to need a
- [Flash Fiction Friday - How May I Help You?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/flash-fiction-friday-how-may-i-help-you/) - Yesterday I finally manage to do my writing stream! I think it's been 2-3 weeks since the last time, but it feels like longer. I have moved my writing stream from Thursday evenings to Thursday mornings because it suits my current schedule better. I did some conlanging, and also wrote the following piece based on a
- [Twice Fortnightly - What is Even Happening?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/twice-fortnightly-what-is-even-happening/) - Why are these weeks so weird? I keep realizing it's Sunday or Monday and I've simultaneously done a bunch things but also not all the things I wanted to but also that I have no idea how many hours I have been writing this week. I have NOT been keeping track! I have also not
- [Twice Fortnightly - Bad Planning?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/twice-fortnightly-bad-planning/) - Last week was a weird one, y'all. I thought I'd done good planing for my writing goals, in terms of both hours and tasks. Yet somehow, I managed to do almost all my hours (9½ out of 11, even though I didn't have my stream for computer reasons) but have several tasks that I didn't even touch
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Ambitions (NaNoWriMo '17 Backstory Snippet)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/flash-fiction-friday-ambitions-nanowrimo-17-backstory-snippet/) - Hi lovelies. I'm too tired to type a proper post tonight since it's past 1 am, but I wrote a snippet from the backstory of my NaNoWriMo MCs. Yay! Ambitions The sun was beginning to set over the courtyard, but it wasn't the evening chill that made Verena's leg bounce up and down where she
- [Twice Fortnightly - The Author Hath Chosen!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/twice-fortnightly-the-author-hath-chosen/) - That's right, lovelies: I have officially picked a NaNoWriMo project. Yay! I will be working on a somewhat dark fantasy, hopefully action-filled romance in a sort of steampunk-ish setting. I have a very firm grasp on the main characters, the superficial structure of the plot and the themes that will generally be dealt with, but
- [Twice Fortnightly - 1hp Beholder](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/twice-fortnightly-1hp-beholder/) - Friday! That means flash fiction! This piece is based on a dream I had last night. Check it out: "Hey... hey, look..." I felt Tam's hand tapping on my shoulder but didn't want to turn away from my book. "Mm..." I said. "Hey look!" she said again, louder now, and I sluggishly raised my head.
- [Tool Tips - The 101 Things in 1001 Days List](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/tool-tips-the-101-things-in-1001-days-list/) - Last week, specifically the night between the 28th and the 29th of September, marked an irregular milestone in my life. Exactly 1001 days earlier, on January 1st 2015, I set out to complete a list of 101 goals. I had spent the last few weeks of 2014 composing it on a website called DayZeroProject, which
- [Twice Fortnightly - 1 Month to NaNo!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/10/twice-fortnightly-1-month-to-nano/) - I cannot believe that it's only a month until NaNoWriMo. September really flew by. I had hoped that by now I'd be in a position to start working on an outline for my NaNo story... aaaand instead I am looking at a list of 5 story ideas and trying to decide which one to work
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Dungeons & Flirting](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/09/flash-fiction-friday-dungeons-flirting/) - I wrote this last night on my stream, and then almost forgot to post it before going to bed now. I use, once again, the Seventh Sanctum writing prompt generator to generate the first line of this flash piece. As soon as I saw it, I knew what I wanted to write about. Sorry, it's
- [Twice Fortnightly - Oh Hey Monday!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/09/twice-fortnightly-oh-hey-monday/) - My goodness, this past week! Lovelies, I have not been managing my time well, especially with regard to my reading for uni. This weekend I was so incredibly swamped with reading and assignments and honestly, none of it was a big deal on its own. The problem was I let it all clump up for me at
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Claire The Starship Engineer](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/09/flash-fiction-friday-claire-the-starship-engineer/) - I ended up doing my Thursday stream today on Friday instead, because I was just very tired yesterday. On stream, I wrote (well, I began to write) the following piece. It was inspired by the Seventh Sanctum Writing Prompt Generator. The first line is the prompt. I really like this particular generator. It always has
- [Twice Fortnightly - Dialing it Back a Bit](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/09/twice-fortnightly-dialing-it-back-a-bit/) - You know, typing this blog post title has made be realize that the word dial is not spelled the way I expected it. The i-a sequence really doesn't seem to jibe with the pronunciation. Aaaanyway, that is not what I am here to write about today. Not at all! It's Monday, and on Mondays I
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Terracotta on White](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/09/flash-fiction-friday-terracotta-on-white/) - I've been away this weekend, and since the internet connection up there is a bit dodgy, I decided to just type up a flash fiction piece but not post it until I got back home tonight. I typed up a blog post, too, detailing a problem I was having with a recent story idea, which
- [Twice Fortnightly - Weird Week Was Weird](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/09/twice-fortnightly-weird-week-was-weird/) - Last week was weird, guys. It was busy, though I suppose not excessively so, but it just ended up being so different from what I expected that I felt slightly off-kilter for most of the week. I ended up working with my day job on Saturday (lolwut?) which just threw my whole plan for the
- [Twice Fortnightly - Steady Progress](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/09/twice-fortnightly-steady-progress/) - Another week, another Monday! As of today I've had the first session with 3 out of the 4 modules I'm taking this term and they've all been fantastic. I am quite sure tomorrow's first Phonology session will be equally great. This is gonna be a fun term! And last night, I finally pledged for some stuff on
- [Flash Fiction Friday - A Little Temperance](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/09/flash-fiction-friday-a-little-temperance/) - Last night on the stream, I decided to write some flash fiction for my new D&D character, Temperance, a dragonborn monk. Here it is: The girl dipped the rag into the water bowl and then wrung it out, black-scaled little hands twisting the excess water out of the torn, stained fabric. ​"Stupid Father Illethor," she
- [Twice Fortnightly - Fall Term 2017](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/08/twice-fortnightly-fall-term-2017/) - Hey there, lovelies. Another Tuesday, another late Monday blog, hah. I had a very busy day yesterday, and by the time it was evening I was so tired that I forgot everything about my (recently somewhat lacking) blogging schedule. Whoops! Last night, I had a meeting with my new job to prepare and participate in,
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Meet-Cute Aborted](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/08/flash-fiction-friday-meet-cute-aborted/) - I saw a pretty boy today, so I wrote this: She'd just shoved her phone back in her pocket after answering a text when she spotted him. He looked like a slimmer Thor, a face at once handsome and beautiful and just the right amount of beard. Blond hair, just wind-tussled enough, spilled down to
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Dandelion](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/08/flash-fiction-friday-the-dandelion/) - I wasn't sure what to write for Flash Fiction Friday today, and ended up looking at random gifs for prompts. I found this one pretty quick, searching for "purple". Here we go: The evening sky was painted in reds and oranges, a thin veil of clouds over the setting sun. She picked the cup up
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Out of the Oven](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/08/flash-fiction-friday-out-of-the-oven/) - It's Friday! Today's flash fiction piece may or may not be based on real events (on that note, you should check out my friend's Twitch channel: twitch.tv/geminick_). Here we go: Ding! "Oh, they're ready! I'm so excited!" the witch said, clapping her hands together as she stood up from the kitchen table. "I wonder how
- [Twice Fortnightly - Another Kind of Vacation.](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/08/twice-fortnightly-another-kind-of-vacation/) - There's a thing that happens sometimes on Sunday evenings, where I suddenly realized that I haven't opened my bullet journal for about two days and that my weekend to-do list in it is mostly blank. That's not a shortcoming of the bullet journal system; it's served me very well for the near-year I've been using
- [Flash Fiction - Ivory Predictions](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/08/flash-fiction-ivory-predictions/) - Last night, I wrote Flash Fiction live on my Twitch stream for the first time! It was an interesting experience. A few trolls, but those were easily banned. Most of the stream was actually about other things, I conlanged some and ended up talking about worldbuilding with someone, so the flash fiction did sort of
- [Twice Fortnightly - Live on the Interwebz](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/08/twice-fortnightly-live-on-the-interwebz/) - Exciting news, guys! I am in your interwebz, streaming! Technically, I started streaming in April (or was it May) with a few stray Sims 4 streams, but now I'm starting it proper. Starting this week, you can see me on my channel on Twitch on Mondays at 7 a.m. (for bullet journal prep and morning
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Capybara](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/07/flash-fiction-friday-the-capybara/) - I felt like writing something cute today, so I decided to use this meet-cute generator and write the adorable opening paragraphs from some hypothetical story. I got this prompt in my first batch: "One character finds the lost toy of the other character's child." and since I've been watching a lot of Dream Daddy streams lately, of
- [Twice Fortnightly - Personal Record(?)!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/07/twice-fortnightly-personal-record/) - Disclaimer: this post contains mild productivity-bragging. If you're a writer and feeling bad about your level of productivity: don't! You are doing your best! I am super lucky that right now my health bar is at full and my calendar is empty, which let's me focus a ton of time on this. I brag on
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The New Body](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/07/flash-fiction-friday-the-new-body/) - Tonight's flash fiction piece is vaguely inspired by a dream I had the other day, though the tone in this is quite different from the dream: She sat in front of the tank for several hours the day before. The body was awe-inspiring, tall and powerful, silicone skin flawless. The red lips were parted slightly,
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back to a Time-Honored Tradition (no, 2!)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/07/twice-fortnightly-back-to-a-time-honored-tradition-no-2/) - Wow. I am one week back into my blogging and already I am back to my old habit of, at intervals, pretending that it's Monday on Tuesday. Well, I had a good reason this time because last night when I remembered that it was Monday, I didn't have much energy left with which to do
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Missing Boy](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/07/flashfictionfriday-themissingboy/) - Yay, first flash fiction post in a while. I had the idea for this scene on a train in Wellington, watching a young conductor interact with some local schoolkids. I've got some other related ideas, so this may turn into something longer eventually: "And what are you kids talking about?" he said, playfully feigning a
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back... uh, Up Over?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/07/twice-fortnightly-back-uh-up-over/) - As the discerning reader will have noticed, my attempts at keeping up my blogging while, as they say, down under, were not very successful. I have now been back "up over", I suppose, for about a week and I thought it was time I get back into it! I had an absolutely fantastic time on
- [Twice Fortnightly - Greetings from Aotearoa](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/06/twice-fortnightly-greetings-from-aotearoa/) - I'm in the upside down! No wait, I mean I'm in Aotearoa New Zealand. Much less scary than the upside down. There are a lot of precocious birds here but I do not consider that scary. I've been in hardcore tourist mode for my first week or two of the trip, apart from the first
- [Twice Fortnightly - One Week till NZ](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/05/twice-fortnightly-one-week-till-nz/) - Yes, I know I had basically the same blog post title last week but to be honest there really isn't much that's more relevant to my life right now than my upcoming trip to New Zealand. A week from tomorrow, I will be about halfway to my layover in Singapore. I still don't have much
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The First Score](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/05/flash-fiction-friday-the-first-score/) - I postponed my Flash Fiction Friday post until today so that I'd be able to write a piece based on my first session of the RPG Blades in the Dark (by John Harper). It was a lot of fun even though the GM (read: I) hadn't quite prepared enough. Here's a little scene I wrote that
- [Twice Fortnightly - Two Weeks till NZ!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/05/twice-fortnightly-two-weeks-till-nz/) - I can't believe it's only 2 weeks until I head to NZ! Two weeks and a day, technically. Gosh, time has flown. I've got quite a bit to sort out before I go but I am not too worried. It's nice that school is finished though, frees up a lot of time and brainpower. This
- [Twice Fortnightly - Basically Last Week of School](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/05/twice-fortnightly-basically-last-week-of-school/) - I was not particularly happy with my progress last week. I did get a few things done, but not as much as I would've liked. Here's what I did: Wrote for 8h. 2/3 of my goal. I am not pleased. I wrote a short piece for Flash Fiction Friday! It was a little spur of
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Guests](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/05/flash-fiction-friday-guests/) - I felt like dragons today. The dragon yawned and stretched in the noontime sun, the golden scales glittering and sending flashes of light in dancing around the opening to the cave. The stone was nice and toasty by now, so much so it made her sleepy. She considered, in passing, spending the whole day there
- [Twice Fortnightly - Another Not-Monday](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/05/twice-fortnightly-another-not-monday/) - Today is a national holiday here in Sweden and when those fall on Mondays, it never quite feels like a Monday. Today I've had a very productive non-Monday, getting rid of a bunch of old to-dos that I've been putting off. None really writing-related, but it was good all the same. Last week was pretty
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Subway Thoughts](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/04/flash-fiction-friday-subway-thoughts/) - Hi guys! I'm drunkish. I wrote a thing. Here it is: When she left the pub and went home that night, her head was full of lovers. Old lovers, tethered to her by fond memories. New lovers, their smells fresh and unknown. Lover that had come, and lovers that persisted. Lovers that might've been but
- [Twice Fortnightly - Post-deadline](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/04/twice-fortnightly-post-deadline/) - Last night I had a big deadline for my English course, which I submitted (with some technical difficulties) just in the nick of time (as is unfortunately my custom). It didn't turn out very well but at least it turned out, and that's really all I care about when it comes to my literature modules
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Fog](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/04/flash-fiction-friday-the-fog/) - Yesterday evening it was decided that my at-home RPG group, the one where I'm the GM, will begin a campaign of Blades in The Dark (created by the brilliant John Harper) our next session. I'm very excited to be running this system. I've been watching a fair few games of it played online and the mechanics
- [Twice Fortnightly - Happy Easter](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/04/twice-fortnightly-happy-easter-3/) - Hello lovelies! Hope your Easter weekend was nice and relaxing. Mine was quite busy (in a good way) with writing and contained a lot of food. Frankly, that's all I want out of a weekend! I managed to completely blank on my Flash Fiction Friday post, only realizing sometime in the early afternoon on Saturday
- [Twice Fortnightly - Logging Lapse](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/04/twice-fortnightly-logging-lapse/) - Last week was a weird week, writing wise. I noted down a total of 7h in my writing log of my 10h goal (would've been 9h except I folded to my conscience and spent my Sunday evening reading for class)... but I could swear I did more writing than that! I keep looking at the
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Objectionable](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/04/flash-fiction-friday-objectionable/) - Odd little piece tonight, inspired by Great Expectations. Without further ado: "You should know," she said, a haughty look on her proud features as she overlooked the garden. "That I don't have a heart." "I know that," I replied. "But why should I care?" She looked surprised then, the first genuine reaction I'd seen in her
- [Twice Fortnightly - New Month, New Page](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/04/twice-fortnightly-new-month-new-page/) - How did it get to be April already? The beginning of the year went at a leisurely pace for me but March just galloped by! This is a big month for me. First month in over 6 years without a stable income. It feels wrong to say I'm unemployed, because I'm registered in some temping
- [Flash Fiction Friday- Shadow Wolves](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/04/flash-fiction-friday-shadow-wolves/) - For once, my Flash Fiction Friday piece wasn't written today. Let's get right to it: "Do not provoke me, little pup!" she spat, opening her fingers wide with a flourish of her wrist. Ana didn't flinch, stood as tall as ever. They were face to face, just a foot or two apart, and neither would budge. In
- [Twice Fortnightly - Last Week on the Job](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/03/last-week-on-the-job/) - This week is my last week at my current day job. Today I had the day off, but I'm working Tues-Fri. I've got a slew of stuff to finish, but I'm not sure how much time it'll really take. I've never had to "finish up" a job before, for the past 6 years I've generally
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Other Dimension](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/03/flash-fiction-friday-the-other-dimension/) - I asked Twitter for writing prompts for tonight, and a good Twitter-friend, Signý suggested I write about me and my friends getting sucked into another dimension. So I did. Me and her, more specifically. Here we go: "Uh-oh," I said when the rift in reality appeared directly adjecent to my coffee table. "That doesn't look
- [Twice Fortnightly - Computer Woes](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/03/twice-fortnightly-computer-woes/) - Hello lovelies, I hope this Monday is treating you well so far. I've had a calm day myself, a bit of volunteering, lunch with a friend and some practicing for my exam tomorrow. The topic is English Syntax, Phonetics & Phonology, and Semantics. All fun topics. It should go okay. I doubt I'll get an
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Free Will](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/03/flash-fiction-friday-free-will/) - For today's Flash Fiction Friday, I used Seventh Sanctum's What-If-Inator. It's a fun prompt generator, which draws on a lot of historical or literary figures, places and events to generate prompts. I've used it before for Flash Fiction Friday. Just once I think, for this piece about Joan of Arc. Today the prompt I picked
- [Twice Fortnightly - Managing my Time Management](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/03/twice-fortnightly-managing-my-time-management/) - Last week was a weird week. Busy but not wildly so, but my mood was a bit all over the place. I only managed 6 out of my 9 hours of writing, largely because I had some kind of motivation crash on Sunday and just ended up watching the Gilmore Girls special all day instead.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Door](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/03/flash-fiction-friday-the-door/) - I think I've had a FFF post called The Door before, but maybe not... feels like I have. Either way I can't think of a better day for this one. Not sure where it came from, it just came. She had never opened the door before. It had always been there, she thought, ever since she
- [Twice Fortnightly - Taking It Up A Notch](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/03/twice-fortnightly-taking-it-up-a-notch/) - My cold is still going strong. Well, strong-ish, and slowly diminishing thankfully. It put a bit of a damper on my writing progress last week, but hey... now is a new week. But first, last week in review: I spent about 12 hours writing or on writing-related activities. Less than I'd hoped, but more than
- [Flash Fiction Fraturday - Go Time](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/03/flash-fiction-fraturday-go-time/) - Last night was one of those nights when I started everything way too late, and thus by the time I got to Flash Fiction Friday on my to-do list I was far too tired to actually do it. Almost made the same mistake again today, but I caught myself in time (yay me!). Here's a random
- [Twice Fortnightly - Sniffles and Time Off](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/twice-fortnightly-sniffles-and-time-off/) - This week, I took time off work to focus on my writing. This morning, I woke up with my throat feeling like sandpaper. Typical. Hopefully I'll get some stuff done anyway. But first, the recap of last week: I spent 7h writing. I worked a little on #12for12stories but didn't finish the draft. I attended
- [Orryn Reborn - On Removing Magic](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/orryn-reborn-on-removing-magic/) - Tonight I begun the rewrite of Going Home that I mentioned here on the blog a few weeks ago. As such, I thought tonight would be a good time to tell you a bit more about the most significant change I'll be making to the books and the reasoning behind it. I'm talking, of course, about the
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Storm](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/flash-fiction-friday-the-storm/) - Happy weekend, everyone! Today I started trying out a new writing site. It's called 4TheWords and basically you defeat monsters and gain magical treasure by writing. A bit silly, but pretty cute. I used it to defeat a moth-monster by writing this: "Mama?" The gentle voice lured Annie from the depths of sleep and when her
- [Twice Fortnightly - New Effort](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/twice-fortnightly-new-effort/) - The past week wasn't a great week, writing-wise. I only managed 6h out of my intended 7, and even that's while rounding up if I'm being honest. I barely touched my conlanging, and gave myself a pass on Flash Fiction Friday because I was exhausted and empty-headed. I did work a fair bit on my #12for12stories February
- [Twice Fortnightly - Oh, it's Monday!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/twice-fortnightly-oh-its-monday/) - Monday night. Long day. Can't brain. Here's week: Wrote for 7h. For once didn't cram 2-3h into Sunday evening. Did Flash Fiction Friday. Started working on my February #12for12stories. It's about a vampire. Brainstormed about the 3rd (and fourth) Orryn novella as well as the Orryn 1+2 rewrites. Did some conlanging, which I've been getting into lately
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Clarity](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/flash-fiction-friday-clarity/) - Normally I write my Flash Fiction piece on the Friday evening, just before posting it. Today I had some time to kill in the afternoon and typed it all up then, butI wasn't connected to the internet at the time so I'm posting it now. It features, once again, my D&D character Seshmet: The gravel
- [Twice Fortnightly - Bit of a Slump](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/twice-fortnightly-bit-of-a-slump/) - Last week wasn't great, writing wise. I was busy, I was tired, and I also planned my time badly. So what I ended up doing was this: Spent about 6h on writing. Disappointed about that one. Posted for Flash Fiction Friday. Picked a story for my #12for12stories short, but didn't look at it yet. Had a
- [Orryn Reborn - The What and the When](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/orryn-reborn-the-what-and-the-when/) - Tonight I wanna tell you about a hard, writing-related decision I recently made. I actually made it a few weeks ago, but I needed a bit of time to process before announcing it publically. To basic gist is this: I will be re-editing and rereleasing both books in my Orryn Novella series, Going Home and Dress Rehearsal Rag.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Shine](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/02/flash-fiction-friday-shine/) - Hey guys. Super sleepy late-night flash fiction time. I did a different thing today and used a Random Word Generator for this piece. Picked the ten words option, and rerandomized them a few times until one combination popped out at me. Results are below: He'd never really been comfortable enough to express his artistics self. He'd
- [Twice Fortnightly - Linguistic Love, and News to Come](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/twice-fortnightly-linguistic-love-and-news-to-come/) - I have started my, effectively, second week of school and can I just say: holy shit I love linguistics! I mean, technically I've been doing linguistics for a while now, but there's a big difference between working independently, and very very slowly, on a paper and going to actual lectures with reading and fun examples
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Three Dark Gods](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/flash-fiction-friday-three-dark-gods/) - Hello lovelies. Hope you all are having a good week. Mine's been pretty good, but exhausting. My writing goal for this week is only 7 hours, and I was only at about 1 1/2 hours before I started working on this flash fiction piece. And for once, it wasn't due to procrastination, just evening tiredness. That
- [Twice Fortnightly - School's On!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/twice-fortnightly-schools-on/) - School has now officially started for me, and so far I'm off to a good start! Weird to go from barely having classes to having classes 4 days the same week, though. Writing wise, last week I: Posted a weird little Flash Fiction Friday. Edited the rest of ABMF, but did not start on the
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Very Meta](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/flash-fiction-friday-very-meta/) - It's late and I'm sleepy, and here's a thing. Very Meta There was no going back now. A little while ago, she might've been able to back out or make up some excuse, find some reason not to do it or not to do it today, anyway. It would've been nice, just being able to
- [Twice Fortnightly - Untitled](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/twice-fortnightly-untitled/) - I'm having a bit of a blank-brain day today, which honestly isn't that bad because I had some practical errands to run and some relaxing to do. But that meant no writing today, and no energy for blog titles, or blog posts really so this'll be short. This week I: Got about 12 hours of
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Defense](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/flash-fiction-friday-the-defense/) - The Defense Her heart beat fast as she walked into the room. The table stood in the center, the lights were bright. She had already picked her seat. Her things were there, now she had no choice but to sit down. Her accusers were everywhere: one next to her, one across the table, a third
- [Twice Fortnightly - 20/20!!!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/twice-fortnightly-2020/) - Oh my god, you guys, I did it! 20 hours of writing or writing-relevant work (research, editing, and in this case: conlanging!) in one week! I'm so proud of me! Yay! Okay, so I did stay up until about 2am last night even though I had to be at work early-ish today but... worth it! I
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Pegasus](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/flash-fiction-friday-the-pegasus/) - I was way too distracted last night to do flash fiction; I was up until past 2 a.m. preparing random encounter tables for a D&D game I ran today. It went really well! And really long! And about half is left... I may have overplanned a bit... But it was fun! So since I have
- [Twice Fortnightly - Hello, 2017!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2017/01/twice-fortnightly-hello-2017/) - Hi guys! Hope you all have had a good start to 2017. I've had a pretty good one myself, I must say. Calm days, working on some long-term planing and centering myself for the coming years, done a bit of cooking and also watched the first two Harry Potter movies (doing one/evening until I start
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Baronessa](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/flash-fiction-friday-the-baronessa/) - Oh hey, Flash Fiction Friday is back. (Shut up, it's still Friday until I go to bed, whatever the clock says! :P). Tonight I'm posting a short peice about a NPC from my D&D homebrew campaign setting, who I've rather fallen for: The Baronessa The baronessa finished reading the letter. Running her fingers over her
- [Twice Fortnightly - Post-Christmas Productivity](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/twice-fortnightly-post-christmas-productivity/) - Hello lovelies. It's been a few weeks since I did a Twice Fortnightly. I blogged so much earlier in the month it didn't feel worth it. In case you didn't know, I did an advent calendar blog series called #AdventBoost. Check that out if you haven't. The week leading up to Christmas and the Christmas
- [#AdventBoost Day 20 - Witchy by Ariel Ries](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-20-witchy-by-ariel-ries/) - More #AdventBoost! More webcomics! More posting when it's late and I can barely make sentences! Today you should all check out Witchy by Ariel Ries. Witchy is a comic about witches! Yay! Can't have enough of those! It takes place in a world where the length of a person's hair is considered a measure of
- [#AdventBoost Day 24 - Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-24-throne-of-the-crescent-moon-by-saladin-ahmed/) - And so it is Christmas, everyone! Here in Sweden, we celebrate on Christmas Eve, which means I have spent today eating, drinking and being utterly spoiled by my family who have put me a good bit closer to my budgetary goals for going to New Zealand next year. In the inevitable post-Christmas-lunch lull when everyone (but
- [#AdventBoost Day 23 - Silvana Imam](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-23-silvana-imam/) - Holy shit, it's the day before Xmas. Today I'm continuing my brief Swedish streak by adventboosting lesbian half-Lithuanian, half-Syrian Swedish rapper Silvana Imam. Now I'll be honest: I hesitated about including her in AdventBoost because she's a fucking superstar who doesn't need signal boosting from small-time bloggers like me. Even so, I figure that a
- [#AdventBoost Day 22 - Antonius M. Hogebrandt](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-22-antonius-m-hogebrandt/) - Today I'm adventboosting a fellow Swede! I'll be honest: I don't know/follow a ton of Swedish creatives. I don't know why that is, probably mostly a consequence of how dominant the Anglosphere tends to be on the social media sites I use. But that's a topic for another day, perhaps.. Today I'm boosting Antonius M.
- [#AdventBoost Day 21 - Nadja Otikor aka Tristarae](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-21-nadja-otikor-aka-tristarae/) - I have tabletop rpgs on the brain right now. I recently GMed D&D for the first time, am preparing to do it for the second time in a couple of weeks and casually dreaming of setting up a streamed game of some kind in the spring, if I can. I'm actually having some trouble focusing
- [#AdventBoost Day 19 - Griefer Belt by Kali/Kales](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-19-griefer-belt-by-kalikales/) - Hey guys! I almost forgot to #Adventboost today because I seem to have completely switched into vacation mode. But I remembered! Yay! Today I wanna tell you about Griefer Belt, a webcomic that I found a while back via a link on another webcomic, Rock and Riot (which I posted about earlier in the month). It's
- [#AdventBoost Day 18 - Compersion by Enchant TV](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-18-compersion-by-enchant-tv/) - I've got something a bit different for you today: a web series! A polyamory-themed web series, at that! Compersion by Enchant TV is a web series about a monogamous couple that decide to open their marriage and try polyamory. You can watch it on YouTube over here. There's one season of 13 episodes out so
- [#Adventboost Day 17 - Kayla Whaley](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-17-kayla-whaley/) - Today's adventboost isn't about any particular product, but rather a person. Kayla Whaley is a queer, disabled essayist and co-editor of Disability in Kidlit, a website which, unsurprisingly, is focused on disability in children's literature. I first started following Kayla on Twitter a while back after someone re-tweeted a thread (can't remember which one) of
- [#AdventBoost Day 16 -  M.F.K. by Nilah Magruder](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-16-m-f-k-by-nilah-magruder/) - Tonight I am a happy camper. Except for some emails and small things I can do from home, I am now off work for the next few weeks. It's going to be lovely! I plan to do a ton of reading and writing. Tonight I bring you another webcomic boost: M.F.K. by Nilah Magruder! M.F.K.
- [#AdventBoost Day 15 - Kylie Wu of Trans Girl Next Door](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-15-kylie-wu-of-trans-girl-next-door/) - Short post today, lovelies, because my bed and a early work meeting beckons. Let's do it! I discovered Trans Girl Next Door quite a while ago (might even have been a year or two, I can't recall) and somehow misplaced the link (or possibly forgot to add it to my RSS app even though I meant
- [#AdventBoost Day 14 - A. C. Buchanan](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-14-a-c-buchanan/) - Today I want to turn your attention to A. C. Buchanan, who I've already mention in my first post as the editor of literary magazine Capricious. Apart from being an editor, A. C. is also an excellent spec-fic writer! I first met them a few years ago when I was randomly assigned to a Camp
- [#AdventBoost Day 13 - Kristine Wyllys](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-13-kristine-wyllys/) - Today's advent boost directs your attention toward Kristine Wyllys, WOC author and feminist. I believe she is cherokee but my google-skillz are failing me tonight so I will leave it at believe because I don't want to mischaracterize anyone. I started following her on Twitter a while back, having found her account through some retweet or other. She
- [#AdventBoost Day 12 - Frank Waln](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-12-frank-waln/) - Today I want to tell y'all about Sicangu Lakota rapper Frank Waln. He has won three Native American Music Awards, several other awards and written on indigineity and decolonization for a number of publications. I'll be honest; I feel a bit silly "boosting" someone so accomplished on my tiny little blog, but at the same
- [#AdventBoost Day 10 and 11 - 2-in-1 of Book Reviewers!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-10-and-11-2-in-1-of-book-reviewers/) - Yeah, another 2-in-1 post. Yesterday I was dungeon master for a game of D&D for the first time. It was an absolute blast but I was so exhausted afterward I literally couldn't form coherent sentences. So a double post today it is! Today I want to tell you about two very cool book blogs. I
- [#Adventboost Day 8 and 9 - Webcomic 2-in-1!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-8-and-9-webcomic-2-in-1/) - Last night, I came home from my office's Christmas dinner at midnight, somewhat drunk. I opted to not blog and instead go to bed, so tonight I have a 2-in-1 post for you: two awesome, but very different, webcomics. Agents of the Realm by Mildred Louis is a really fun, modern take on the magic girl
- [#AdventBoost Day 7 - Monster Pop! by Maya Kern](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-7-monster-pop-by-maya-kern/) - It's time for another webcomic boost, guys! Today I want to tell you about Monster Pop! Look at that art style! How cute is that!? I'll be honest; the art style was the only reason I started reading this comic when I first joined Tapastic. But it was a good choice because it's got a
- [#AdventBoost Day 6 - There Will Be Phlogiston by Alexis Hall](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-6-there-will-be-phlogiston-by-alexis-hall/) - Hi guys! I am so tired tonight. Like, I'm falling asleep. It had been a long day. Onward! This is a book. It is called There WIll Be Phlogiston, and is part of a series but functions as a stand-alone. It is written by a queer writer named Alexis Hall. It has a happy triad in it and
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Continents taking shape](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/worldbuilding-wednesday-continents-taking-shape/) - Hey, it's Worldbuilding Wednesday again! How time has flown this week. My world building progress this past week has been of the "slow but steady" variety. I've read up on map projections, spent a lot of time looking at maps of Earth and fictional worlds and sketching various continental setups for Erziyye since I realized I wasn't
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Some map details](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/worldbuilding-wednesday-some-map-details/) - This week's been a bit crazy, particularly today. In between neglected day job tasks, laundry and preparing for a family event this weekend, I wasn't sure I'd have time to do anything with my map today. Earlier in the week I was a bit lazy, so I haven't gotten as far as I would've liked,
- [Sunday Double Whammy! Worldbuilding + Flash Fiction](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/sunday-double-whammy-worldbuilding-flash-fiction/) - Last week I was crazy tired. I'm not sure why, maybe I'm still just adjusting to being back at work, but blogging in the evenings was just not a thing that was happening at all! So since I missed Worldbuilding Wednesday and Flash Fiction Friday, I'm doing a special post today combining them. Yay! This
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Tectonic Plates, My Wildcards](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/worldbuilding-wednesday-tectonic-plates-my-wildcards/) - So, I know I posted my tectonic plates a few weeks back already buuuuut... I kind of redid them. Entirely. They're much awesomer now! I wanna say a big thank you to my friend Grace, who is a fantastic and patient and knowledgable and has helped me loads with getting my plates in order! Here
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Step-by-Step for Ocean Currents](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/01/worldbuilding-wednesday-step-by-step-for-ocean-currents/) - Since my step-by-step of tectonic plates was pretty well received (and fun to do!), I wanted to do another one on ocean currents. I had intended to do it pretty soon after the first one but have been derailed about a billion times. Well, here it finally is! And like last time I have a
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Step-by-Step for Tectonic Plates](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/11/worldbuilding-wednesdays-step-by-step-for-tectonic-plates/) - In this very special rendition of Worldbuilding Wednesday, I'm going to give you a step-by-step guide to how I made the tetonic plates for my conworld Erziyye. This guide is meant to help with designing scientifically plausible (and neat-looking), but not scientifically accurate maps. Some worldbuilders (like myself) enjoy the idea of having fairly detailed geological information
- [#AdventBoost Day 5 - Monsterhearts!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-5-monsterhearts/) - Today I have something a bit different for #Adventboost. Monsterhearts is a tabletop RPG. Ever wanted to pretend you were Buffy? Or the MC in a YA paranormal romance novel? Then this is the RPG for you! To save us all from my awful pitching skills, here's the official description from the game's second edition's Kickstarter
- [#AdventBoost Day 4 - Poison Kiss by Ana Mardoll](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-4-poison-kiss-by-ana-mardoll/) - Today is a second Sunday of advent and I have an extra special boost for you all. Now obviously, I only rec things I like, but this one is a special favorite! It is hands down the best book I've read this year: Poison Kiss by Ana Mardoll. Poison Kiss is a fantasy (poly) romance novel about
- [#AdventBoost Day 3 - Rock and Riot by Chelsey Furedi](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-3-rock-and-riot-by-chelsey-furedi/) - Another #Adventboost, another webcomic. I'll be honest: there's probably gonna be a lot of webcomics in this boost series. This has been such a weird year, I feel like most my media consumption has been webcomics and RPG streams. Not much book-reading, to be honest. Anyway! Today I want to tell you about Rock and Riot by
- [#AdventBoost Day 2 - The Substitutes by Myisha Haynes](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-2-the-substitutes-by-myisha-haynes/) - Hi guys, and welcome to day 2 of #Adventboost! Today I want to point you all in the direction of the awesome webcomic The Substitutes by Myisha Haynes. I tripped over this gem by accident recently, and it was one of those moments where I read a couple of pages and then was stuck and had to
- [#AdventBoost Day 1 - Capricious](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/12/adventboost-day-1-capricious/) - Yesterday NaNoWriMo finished, so today I am doing what any sensible writer would do... rushing headlong into another project! Starting today, and up until Christmas Eve, I will be posting daily on the blog to signal boost a marginalized creative person (or a project by such a person). I call it... #Adventboost! A word of
- [Twice Fortnightly - I am a Bachelor...](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/11/twice-fortnightly-i-am-a-bachelor/) - ... of the arts! Well, technically I'm not one yet because I still need to do a thesis paper defense in January and then get some paperwork done. But I did finish my thesis paper last week on Wednesday. I am very pleased! I think it turned out all right, but mostly I'm just happy to
- [Twice Fortnightly - Halfway Through NaNo](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/11/twice-fortnightly-halfway-through-nano/) - Okay, technically we're not halfway through NaNo until tomorrow, but oh well. At the halfway mark, the official goal is 25k. I will not be there, but that's okay: I wasn't intending to be. I'll be, instead, somewhere just shy of 19k as my current word count is 16666 (hehe) and I haven't started writing
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Mansplaining](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/11/flash-fiction-friday-mansplaining/) - Today, I used Seventh Sanctum's writing challenge generator and this line caught my eye: "During the story, a character eats something that disagrees with them.". I find the ambiguity of the word disagree amusing, and at first I thought of talking cookies, but then, with what's going on right now in politics, it made me think
- [Twice Fortnightly - Gonna be an odd week](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/11/twice-fortnightly-gonna-be-an-odd-week/) - We're a week into NaNo, and so far so good. I've been reaching my own daily goals, which are lower than the official ones but I am intentionally keeping them low in the beginning of the month while I finish my thesis. Then I can sprint at the end of the month. This week, me
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Offering](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/11/flash-fiction-friday-the-offering/) - I actually wrote this yeterday but I was having some net connectivity problems and couldn't post it before bed. So here it is now! I did something a bit different with this flash fiction piece. My boyfriend suggested that instead of using one of my regular methods of prompt generation (like Dixit cards or random
- [Twice Fortnightly - Nearly NaNo](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/10/twice-fortnightly-nearly-nano/) - Just 40 minutes left before NaNoWriMo 2016 starts. As usual, I'm staying up til just past midnight to write my first 100 or so words. It's tradition at this point! I've had a good week, productivity-wise. I've made good strides with my thesis and although it smarts a bit to see another month pass without
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Different, Familiar](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/10/flash-fiction-friday-different-familiar/) - Evenin' guys! Check me out, I remembered to post this on Friday this week. Tonight, I went to the house warming party of my next door neighbor, who happen to have moved into the apartment of the parents of someone I was best friends with basically up until I hit my teens. So since I
- [Twice Fortnightly - Or well, at least occasionally on Mondays](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/10/twice-fortnightly-or-well-at-least-occasionally-on-mondays/) - It's funny, I recently (about two-three months ago) started using an organizational system called bullet journaling (I will be blogging a bit about it eventually) and it's been incredibly helpful to me when it comes to organizing my time and planing and motivating myself. So much so that, apparently, if I forget to write TF
- [Flash Fiction F-Saturday - She Died](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/10/flash-fiction-f-saturday-she-died/) - Another busy week, another day late flash fiction piece. No matter, at least I remembered. This one was inspired by a prompt from Seventh Sanctum's prompt generator and written... um, in The next minute or so, on the subway. She Died She died for love, they said. The blades fell upon her for the unbridled passion
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Feather](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/10/flash-fiction-friday-the-feather/) - Hi guys! Time for flash fiction Friday. Tonight I'm doing a piece based on a Dixit card again! It's been a while, so it was fun to do it. Here we go: He hurried between the trees, crouched low. Moving with barely more than a swish, he dodged around shrubs and over roots following the
- [Twice Fortnightly - Oh hey, October!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/10/twice-fortnightly-oh-hey-october/) - How is it October? What happened? It's almost NaNo! Anyway, I've been a bad blogger lately. It's been busy. I am finally seeing the light at the end of the busy, at least school-wise. Here's what I've done in terms of writing the past week: Posted a piece to Flash Fiction Friday. Started a new
- [Flash Fiction Fri- Saturday - The Session](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/10/flash-fiction-fri-saturday-the-session/) - Last night I was way too tired for my flash fiction, so I kept it for today. Recently I've been watching The Flash and it got me thinking it'd be fun to write a book, or even a comic, about a prison for people with superpowers where there was actually some attempt at rehabilitation. I decided
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Haiku! Haiku! Haiku!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/09/flash-fiction-friday-haiku-haiku-haiku/) - Today, I'm doing flash poetry Friday instead of flash fiction. I felt inspired to do some haikus for the first time in forever. I am also posting them on my Wattpad, which I haven't updated in ages but you should still check it out. Dexterity Spoltchy manicures Are acceptable, with my Non-dominant hand Hold-up Hey,
- [Twice Fortnightly - What Happened to September?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/09/twice-fortnightly-what-happened-to-september/) - It just went "zoom" and now it's almost gone. What happened? I know I have no idea. I'm a little grumpy at how the month's end is almost here and my thesis still isn't done, but I'm aiming to at least finish the draft before Saturday, and then do my revisions in the beginning of
- [Flash Fiction Friday - One of Those Days](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/09/flash-fiction-friday-one-of-those-days/) - Wooooah! I'm actually remembering to do Flash Fiction Friday, while it's Friday! Go me! The other day, I had what I thought was a really good idea for how to start a book. The problem was, it wasn't a start that worked with any of the books currently on my to-write list. So here it is
- [Twice Fortnightly - One of Those Good Weeks](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/09/twice-fortnightly-good-weeks/) - Is it feeling like fall yet where you are? Or spring, for my readers "down under"? Here, it's basically still feeling like summer, reasonably warm and sunny, just cold in the mornings. It's getting dark though, albeit slowly. I have finally gotten my BA thesis work rolling again. Pretty close to being done with the draft.
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back in Action!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/09/twice-fortnightly-back-in-action/) - Woah, you guys, a fortnight without twice fortnightly? How did that happen? I really thought it was just one week. Life is a little coo-coo banana pants right now, but in mostly good ways. Just so, so busy! Still, I'm trucking along. What have I been up to, writing-wise? Well, I posted some backstory for
- [Flash Fiction Friday - When Mama Died](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/09/flash-fiction-friday-when-mama-died/) - This poor, neglected blog, you knows. I'll do better, pinky promise. Today I bring you a short piece that's part of the backstory of one of my D&D characters. I love this character so much, and it's also nice to be able to write, and even be kinda poetic-proseish like below, but not feel the
- [Twice Fortnightly - More Projects!!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/08/twice-fortnightly-more-projects/) - This past week has been a bit *sad trumpet sound* in terms of the goals I set for myself last week. I didn't do the GlobeIn review, and I didn't do Flash Fiction Friday. I did, however, start poking at my project from Camp again. I just did some basic organizational stuff, but it feels
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back to Work!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/08/twice-fortnightly-back-to-work-3/) - So apparently I forgot all about my blog last week. Oops! It was a weird week. A surprise cold, and the realization I would have to miss my BA thesis deadline if I wanted to produce something I was at all happy with made it a weird week. I still have a cold, though it's
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Mirror](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/08/flash-fiction-friday-the-mirror/) - Hey guys. Happy Friday! What a freaking week this is. There have been some great moments, like defeating the great dragon queen Tiamat in a going-away game for our now relocated GM (who I'm gonna miss) and finally getting to see the Warcraft movie. (Yes, linking to my instagram for contaxt/visuals is a thing I do
- [Twice Fortnightly - Accidental Faliure](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/08/twice-fortnightly-accidental-faliure/) - Hello everyone! I had an interesting experience last night: for the first time, I accidentally lost Camp NaNo. I had 1k left to write, which I can do in about half an hour, so I had it in the bag. I had my first meeting with a crit group I've just joined, which went really
- [Twice Fortnightly - Happy Pride Week!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/07/twice-fortnightly-happy-pride-week/) - Hi everyone! Hope y'all are having a lovely Monday. This week I'm doing something I don't normally do. It's Stockholm Pride week, and usually I don't really participate in it except maybe by watching the Pride Parade but tomorrow I'm going into town to listen to a talk about the portrayal of (even more than averagely)
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Final Battle](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/07/flash-fiction-friday-the-final-battle/) - Hi guys! Hope y'all are having a lovely day. Today it's Friday, so it's time for some flash fiction. Today I'm doing a Dixit-inspired image prompt piece. It's been a long while since I did one of those, don't you think? For those of you who don't know, Dixit is possibly my favorite board game
- [Twice Fortnightly - Instant Emma?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/07/twice-fortnightly-instant-emma/) - Hey hey! I'm on Instagram. I'm not sure what I think of it yet, but I'm getting the hang of it. I was quite surprised to see there was already an EmmaLindhagen on there, hence the "author" part of my username. So yeah, maybe follow me on there or whatever. So, social media exploration aside,
- [Twice Fortnightly - Kinda Progress](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/07/twice-fortnightly-kinda-progress/) - Hello lovelies, I hope you all have had a lovely Monday. Mine has been pretty rad, tbh. I'm making such good progress with my BA thesis studying right now, and that just feels great. I've also worked out, written a bit, done and then accidentally ruined my nails (twice) and taken a walk. So apart
- [Twice Fortnightly - All Kindsa News!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/07/twice-fortnightly-all-kindsa-news/) - Hello my lovelies! It's been a busy week and I've got a bunch of news for you, so let's get right to it: I did some Camp prep and then started Camp on Friday. I haven't had the greatest start. I think I can still catch up, but I might lower my word count goal
- [Twice Fortnightly - Miss me?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/06/twice-fortnightly-miss-me/) - Hello lovelies! Boy, has this blog been dead lately? I have had a bad case of "holy shit, what even is to-do lists and writing stuff" lately, with the day job being super busy for a while and my studies remaining super busy. For that reason, I haven't been doing much worth reporting lately. I
- [Flash Fiction Friday - I Broke the World For Us (A mini Critical Role Tribute)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/06/flash-fiction-friday-i-broke-the-world-for-us-a-mini-critical-role-tribute/) - As I believe I've previously mentioned, I am a big fan of the Dungeons & Dragons stream Critical Role. The arc I'm watching right now (the Whitestone storyline, for the initiated) is so ridiculously good I simultaneously struggle to turn it off in the evening, and have to take pauses and pace around the apartment intermittently
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Tonight is the Night](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/06/flash-fiction-friday-tonight-is-the-night/) - Tonight I dreamed of vampires, boarding schools and rebellion, so I wrote this little piece (a bit sloppy because it's late and I'm sleepy). Hope you like it. Tonight was the night. They would try to rise, and if they failed at least they would finally fall. She stopped for a moment, peeking out through
- [Tribe News - All Kindsa Random! Also, New Zealand!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/05/tribe-news-all-kindsa-random-also-new-zealand/) - So, I've been meaning to do a news post for a while, and I'm finally getting around to it. And by news, I mean "things that would've been news if I'd posted about it at the time". This post will be totally random both in terms of chronology and topic, and if we're buddies and
- [Twice Fortnightly - Here, have a polar bear!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/05/twice-fortnightly-here-have-a-polar-bear/) - I don't mention my collection of ball-jointed dolls often here on the blog, but tonight I just have to share a photo of my little polar bear doll (a Fairyland puki event faceplate, in case anyone wants to know). I've had here for over a year, but only just painted her and gosh, she turned
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Child, The Other](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/05/flash-fiction-friday-the-child-the-other/) - As I've mentioned before, I've been getting into tabletop RPGs lately. Naturally, one of the games on my "to play" list is the true giant of the genre, Dungeons and Dragons. I'm watching a few D&D streams right now, my favorite being the truly amazing Critical Role. The other day, I came up with a
- [Twice Fortnightly - Checkmarks!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/05/twice-fortnightly-checkmarks/) - The last few days I have, much to my enjoyment, actually been checking things off of to-do lists. That's always a lovely feeling. I've caught some sort of second wind with this university thing I'm working on and although it's still slow-going, it's at least going and with a bit more enthusiasm than before. Writing
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Some Nights](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/05/flash-fiction-friday-some-nights/) - Last night I went to a party. On the metro back I wrote this: Some nights, she felt cool. Not just cool for a geek, or cool for being her, but cool in some unqualified, objective way. Some nights, she felt sexy and, only halfway through her first cider, stopped worrying about whether it had
- [Twice Fortnightly - Psuedo-purple?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/05/twice-fortnightly-psuedo-purple/) - Lately I seem to be making an extra effort when I write to express myself... prettily. I mean, I always want to write well, but I'm not always in that particular mood where I push myself a little extra, and go for a little extra flourish. I wouldn't go so far as saying I'm in a
- [Twice Forthnightly - Non-worldbuilding Wednesday](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/05/twice-forthnightly-non-worldbuilding-wednesday/) - Monday-Tuesday this week, I was at a conference. So naturally I spent Monday evening thinking "I'll do my blog tomorrow morning, I'm too tired now" and Tuesday morning I completely forgot. Anyhowsers, so my news from last week is: yay, I managed Camp! About 11k in the end, go me! I even managed to do
- [Twice Fortnightly - Oh right, Camp!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/04/twice-fortnightly-oh-right-camp/) - Yeah, that's what this month has felt like a bit so far. It's weird, because I know I can write large quantities in fairly limited time. Heck, I made 75k last NaNo! But this time... man. 10k as a goal and I'm still struggling. To be honest, I think I'm partially struggling because my goal is
- [Twice Fortnightly - Getting my roll/role on!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/04/twice-fortnightly-getting-my-rollrole-on/) - Exciting news, guys! On Friday I'm playing in my first ever proper tabletop rpg! Wooh! I've played two one-offs before with throwaway characters but other than that I'm a newb. I'm playing with some total strangers over Skype and Roll20 so I'm a bit nervous but also very excited. Wish me luck! This week I have:
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Ren and Tiktik (Numenera Character Backstory)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/04/flash-fiction-friday-ren-and-tiktik-numenera-character-backstory/) - I have recently decided to get into tabletop RPGs, and in a week I'll be playing my first session with a group, playing in a system called Numenera (which seems super cool). I've been working on my character today, so I thought I'd write a small piece of backstory for her about how she met
- [Twice Fortnightly - Gone Camping! Sorta...](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/04/twice-fortnightly-gone-camping-sorta/) - Ok, short post today! This week I have: Started Camp NaNo. I've had a very slow start, just a few hundred words so far. It's hard to feel motivated when I could easily reach my goal in about 3 days if I really made an effort. Still, gotta speed up a bit so I don't have to
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Immortal](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/04/flash-fiction-friday-the-immortal/) - Hey guys! It's time for Flash Fiction Friday! I was watching the first half of Return of the King today with my parents, and tonight's flash fiction piece, rather than being a Dixit prompt or from some prompt generator, is inspired by the character Arwen and the idea of an immortal sire to mortal progeny. Here
- [Twice Fortnightly - Talk to Me, Baby!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/03/twice-fortnightly-talk-to-me-baby/) - I've just returned from a rather lovely weekend at my parents' summer house, where we celebrated Easter. I spent most of my time eating, napping, reading and watching people roleplay on YouTube. All in all, not bad! Hope you've had a lovely Easter too, celebrating or not. I discovered something cool this week, namely that
- [Twice Fortnightly - Happy Easter!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/03/twice-fortnightly-happy-easter-2/) - It's Easter week! Hope ya'll are doing good. I'm having a chill week this week, since apart from a brief thing on Wednesday I'm on vacation from work. I'm trying to focus on my thesis to feel like I'm getting some proper progress on that. It's going pretty well, so far. We'll see. Writing wise,
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Changes](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/03/flash-fiction-friday-changes/) - I'm totally not gonna comment on how dead my blog's been lately. Nope. Not gonna do it. Here's today's Dixit card that I'm using for a flash fiction prompt: And here's what I came up with: The scissor was heavy in her hand. She ran a fingertip along the blade, felt the bite of it’s
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Martyr-making](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/03/flash-fiction-friday-martyr-making/) - Look at me, actually remembering that it's Friday before I've fallen asleep! Tonight, I don't feel like using my beloved Dixit deck for a writing prompt, so instead I used Seventh Sanctum's What-If-Inator and got the following prompt: What if Joan of Arc had access to CGI? And this is what I wrote: Jeanne smiled as
- [Twice Fortnightly - Re-re-re-restructuring my time](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/02/twice-fortnightly-re-re-re-restructuring-my-time/) - I realized today I have made a fatal error in my time management lately. My original plan was: three days for day job, two for studying and working on my thesis, one for writing and one day off (with, of course, the option of poking any of those things a bit extra on the other
- [Tool Tips - Memrise](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/02/tool-tips-memrise/) - I'm not doing much Worldbuilding right now, so I don't have a Worldbuilding Wednesday for you today, but I wanted to post something. Since I've been volunteering today, and got to practice my Arabic a lot, I thought this language-related post (which I wrote a while back) would be appropriate. Ever heard of Memrise? Well, you have
- [Twice Fortnightly - Blurbstorming!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/02/twice-fortnightly-blurbstorming/) - Do you ever have those nights when you're just gonna watch one episode of a show and it turns out to be a double-length episode and then suddenly it's nearly 1 a.m. and your Wordpress app keeps crashing and your boyfriend's killing orcs or something on the computer so you put off blogging until the
- [Twice Fortnightly - Coming out of a Slump](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/02/twice-fortnightly-coming-out-of-a-slump/) - As you may have noticed, it's been a bit quiet around here lately. I've been adjusting to getting back to work, and to gradually shifting more time and focus over to my studies. I also spent a few weeks with a completely shattered screen on my iPhone, which wouldn't have been so bad if it was just
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Waiting](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/02/flash-fiction-friday-waiting/) - This blog isn't dead, wooh! I've been both horribly disorganized and sort of unmotivated for a few weeks. Earlier this week I finally got my phone working again (thank you, Kunal!), and by that I also got my productivity/planning apps left and boy have I missed them. I suddenly feel like I know what's going
- [Twice Fortnightly - Lil' Milestones](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/01/twice-fortnightly-lil-milestones/) - This has been an exciting week, lingering colds not withstanding. I hit a small, but significant, author milestone (see the last bullet point on my list of achievements this week). I also did some actual student stuff for the first time in a while. Specifically, I sent in a project description for my BA thesis.
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Games](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/01/flash-fiction-friday-games/) - It's been a while since I did Flash Fiction Friday! Feels good to be back to it. No Dixit card tonight, instead I bring you a random scene. It was inspired by a dream I had the other night, just a short scene that gave me an idea for a detail to add to a
- [Twice Fortnightly - *Atchoo!*](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/01/twice-fortnightly-atchoo/) - I have had the most awful cold this past week. I don't get (properly) sick very often, and being ill enough that I can't work or really do much else aside from veg around and cough a lot for a whole week is almost unheard of in my world. It's also left me pretty restless
- [Twice Fortnightly - I'm on Patreon!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/01/twice-fortnightly-im-on-patreon/) - Yes, that's right, I now have a Patreon page. Check it out! I'll be honest: I don't really have a plan, and I don't quite know what I'm doing. But hey... sometimes you just gotta go for it! As I've mentioned, for the next six months or so, University will be my main priority and writing will
- [Twice Fortnightly - 2015 in Review](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2016/01/twice-fortnightly-2015-in-review/) - So... I got fuckall done this week. But instead on dwelling on that, and the reasons why, I'm going to focus on all the things I did do, not this past week but the whole past year. A bit of a recap, to remind myself that I am in fact moving forward and getting stuff done even when it doesn't
- [Twice Fortnightly - That Vacation Vibe](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/twice-fortnightly-that-vacation-vibe/) - Today, over a week into my time off, I finally got that feeling of being on vacation. I spent all day reading, then all evening binging on Jane the Virgin (which, btw, is hilarious and you should totally watch it). All of last week was so full of plans, there was something every day and even
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Gleamies (Special preview!)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/flash-fiction-friday-gleamies-special-preview/) - I've got a bit of a special piece of flash fiction for you today: a preview for an upcoming Patreon-exclusive serial! That's right guys, I'm getting a Patreon! I'm launching it in Jan, and it'll basically be one big experiment. I wanted to start "warming up" for it, so here is a little scene of
- [Spotlight - Christmas Faves](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/spotlight-christmas-faves/) - In lieu of a Worldbuilding Wednesday post, and with it being Christmas Eve (which for us Swedes is the big day of celebration, complete with opening presents and gorging ourselves on deliciousness) tomorrow, tonight I thought I'd bring you a short list of some Christmas media favorites of mine! Without further ado, let's go: Love,
- [Twice Fortnightly - My Vacation Starts When?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/twice-fortnightly-my-vacation-starts-when/) - Ho, boy! I do not feel like someone on vacation. Technically I've been off since Friday but the weekend, including Friday and today have been super busy, both with day job things and other things. Still, tomorrow I should get the last of the urgent day job stuff and some cleaning out of the way, and then
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Resignation](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/flash-fiction-friday-resignation/) - I'm on vacation! I still have some work stuff I need to finish this weekend, but I'm officially out of the office until January 11th which feels awesome! Today I've had a slow day, bit hungover after an office X-mas party that turned into bar hopping. Had a great time! Tonight I've reached into my trusty
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday/Spotlight - My Favorite Conworlds](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/worldbuilding-wednesdayspotlight-my-favorite-conworlds/) - It's been a looooong day, so I thought I'd do something quick and fun for today's Worldbuilding Wednesday, namely a spotlight post about my favorite conworlds. I've realized lately that my favorite fiction franchises aren't always synonymous with my favorite conworlds. For example, I love the Buffy franchise in many ways, but strictly in terms of
- [Twice Fortnightly - Gearing Up, Counting Down](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/twice-fortnightly-gearing-up-counting-down/) - I've been trying to get back to writerly stuff this week, and I've been somewhat successful. I've written a little most days, including posting a Flash Fiction Friday post. I've done a bit of planning for the spring, but not quite enough or in an organized enough manner. I've also gotten my butt out of
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Improvements](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/flash-fiction-friday-improvements/) - Flash Fiction Friday is back, yay! A soft start this time, not a prompt but just a... piece. Tomorrow I'm helping mom at a Christmas market, and thinking of that made me think of a lady I've seen at that market who looked like she was going through some rought times but, last year, seemed
- [Twice Fortnightly - Vegging, as promised.](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/12/twice-fortnightly-vegging-as-promised/) - Titles says it all really. The past week has been largely unproductive, which has been nice but also a bit frustrating. My vegging has been equal parts taking it easy after nano, and just putting off doing that planing I mentioned. So basically, that's what I'm doing the coming week: planning. And getting back to
- [Twice Fortnightly - Giving it 150%!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/11/twice-fortnightly-giving-it-150/) - Guys! I won NaNo! Feast your eyes on these sweet final stats:75k, can you believe it? I almost can't. It makes sense because I hit 50k on the 20th, 2/3 of the way through. But at the same time... I've never totaled more than, say, 52-53k during NaNo before so basically I feel like Superwoman.
- [Twice Fortnightly - Early Win!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/11/twice-fortnightly-early-win/) - That's right, guys! On Friday the 20th, I won NaNo! Well, I won the 50k bit anyway, not the "finish your draft" bit, got a bit of a ways to go with that. That is a super-yay in my view, because this is (as far as I can recall) the only time that I've won
- [Twice Fortnightly - Way Ahead, For Once!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/11/twice-fortnightly-way-ahead-for-once/) - Guys, I am having the best NaNo ever! Today is day 16, and I am a 37.5k. That is, 3/4ths to 50k, and 10k over par! I've had 3 4k days so far! Wooh! I feel awesome. I mean, check out these stats: I could cruise through the rest of the month if I wanted to.
- [Giveaway - 4 Days Left! - Prints and Bookmarks are Here!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/11/giveaway-4-days-left-prints-and-bookmarks-are-here/) - That's right, the prints for the giveaway finally arrived! Or, I should say, the print, because the second one is for me! Hah! If you don't know which giveaway I'm talking about, check out this post for the full details! The print depicted above is my copy, the winner's copy is still all safely wrapped in
- [Twice Fortnightly - Sprinting Along](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/11/twice-fortnightly-sprinting-along/) - This past week's been an odd one. I've forgone my usual productivity schedule on account of NaNo. The main reason for that is that I seem to be quite heavily dependent on Twitter word sprints to get things done (as I'm having trouble focusing) and as such it makes more sense for me to be
- [Twice Fortnightly - Bye Blog Ahead, Hello NaNo!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/11/twice-fortnightly-bye-blog-ahead-hello-nano/) - That's right, NaNo is here! Day 3, in fact. How did that happen? Quick, belated blog post today. Last week I: Prepped, successfully for NaNo! Started NaNo! I met my goal on Day 1 and 2 and it's looking good for Day 3, so here's to a good month. Posted about currents for Worldbuilding Wednesday!
- [The Blog Ahead Challenge 2015!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/the-blog-ahead-challenge-2015/) - So, I decided to participate in a challenge called Blog Ahead 2015, the purpose of which is to build your list of scheduled blog posts. The challenge comes from Herding Cats and Burning Soup and the goal is the following (text taken from the aforementioned site): The Goal Build your total number of scheduled posts
- [Giveaway - Paperback of Going Home + Original Artwork + Bonus!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/11/giveaway-paperback-of-going-home-original-artwork-bonus/) - It's giveaway time! To brighten up this grey November, I'm going to be giving away printed copies of my debut novella, Going Home, some book swag and an exclusive piece of art, commissioned just for this giveaway! Cool, no? For any readers who are unfamiliar with it, Going Home is a family drama in a dystopian
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Current Currents!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/worldbuilding-wednesday-current-currents/) - That's right, in this post I'm gonna show you my current currents! Yay! In the end of last week I had some lovely worldbuilding session with my friend and eternal geology-consultant Grace. My currents are now awesome-looking! Much better than before. I get so thrilled when I look at them, haha! Here they are: Click
- [Twice Fortnightly - Post Untitled](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/twice-fortnightly-post-untitled/) - Yeah, no, no titles coming to me tonight. I've written like 5 blog posts today for the Blog Ahead challenge, that might be why. Just gonna get straight to it. This week I have: Finished working on Erziyye's currents! Yay! Will be posting about them on Wednesday. Done a good bit of NaNo prep in
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Hopeful](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/flash-fiction-friday-hopeful/) - It's a miracle! A piece of flash fiction whose title isn't a definite noun. Bet you didn't expect that to happen, huh? This time, the title is an adjective. Yay, adjectives! Here's the picture: Hopeful She loves me. I just know it! Every night I fly by her house at the same time, and every
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - And now for something completely different.](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/worldbuilding-wednesday-and-now-for-something-completely-different/) - If you don't know what the title refers to, you need to watch more Monty Python. Anyway, today we are indeed doing something completely different. I wanted to show you my ocean currents but they aren't totally done and the idea of putting up a map with things missing irks me so I'll hold off
- [Twice Fortnightly - Let There Be Paperbacks!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/twice-fortnightly-let-there-be-paperbacks/) - That's right, they're here!! Behold! Aren't they pretty? Potato-quality photo aside, I'm really happy with the quality! The books arriving was just one aspect to a really good week. I had some good personal news, got some great progress with some life my projects and enjoyed quality time with my boyfriend, my parents and my
- [Guest Spotlight: A Thank you to Katherine Applegate by Drae Box](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/guest-spotlight-a-thank-you-to-katherine-applegate-by-drae-box/) - Here it is, my second ever guest post, finally up! Drae Box is a up-and-coming fiction writer (and very friendly, to boot!), with books Kateti and The Royal Gift both scheduled for release later this year. The former of the two can be read for free if you sign up to her newsletter! Drae also
- [Twice Fortnightly - Schroedinger's Books](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/twice-fortnightly-schroedingers-books/) - So, I was gonna post this in the morning, but then I saw that I'd gotten a slip from the post office and I thought it might be my books from Createspace so I said "I'll post once I know". Then, of course, I forgot to pick up the package. So... I don't know, maybe
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Terranaut](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/flash-fiction-friday-the-terranaut/) - I had never really noticed this card before I pulled it out of my Dixit-game tonight. Isn't it delightful? All credit to Dixit and their fantastic illustrators, as usual. The Terranaut Telq pushed himself, and his bulky suit, the last little distance out of the water. As he sat up and looked around, he was
- [Twice Fortnightly - Whoops, Tuesday!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/twice-fortnightly-whoops-tuesday/) - Normally I like to forget that it's Wednesday and end up doing my worldbuilding post on a Thursday, but this week I thought I'd mix it up a bit by forgetting it was Monday and doing my weekly update on a Tuesday. Yay, variation! So what have I been up to? Well, I have: Poked
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Chain](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/10/flash-fiction-friday-the-chain/) - I almost forgot it was Friday! I'm already in bed and don't feel like getting back up, but I still want to do my flash fiction piece. So I pressed the "random article" button on Wikipedia a few times until one, an article about a cyclist, gave me an idea. Here goes nothing: The Chain
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Clean Lines](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/worldbuilding-wednesday-clean-lines/) - I am on a bit of a worldbuilding high right now. I'm getting some awesome feedback on my Erziyye map from a writer friend and geology geek, and basically all I want to do is work on the map right now. Sadly work, this cold and my slightly obsessive need for feedback from said friend
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back Into the Groove....Again!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/twice-fortnightly-back-into-the-groove-again/) - I thought I was back in the groove already, but then last week I got a cold and a bit of a low-bat situation, mentally. So I slowed my pace and had a very leisurely week. I still got a few overdue things off of my to-do list, but kept it very low-key. What I did
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Devil in the Dice](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/flash-fiction-friday-the-devil-in-the-dice/) - I almost forgot it's Friday! But then I remembered, so here is some sleepy flash fiction for you all! Here's tonight's Dixit card: Cool, no? I've always liked this card. Credits to Dixit's illustrators as usual. Here's the piece: The Devil in the Dice The dialog box flashed on the screen. “Double bet to $500?”
- [Twice Fortnightly - Paperbacks now available!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/twice-fortnightly-paperbacks-no-available/) - That's right! I've reviewed my proof copies and deemed them correct, so my books are now buyable in print. Currently they are only available in the CreateSpace eStore (Going Home and Dress Rehearsal Rag) but they should become available on Amazon and elsewhere within the next few days. Very exciting! I'm keeping the proof copies as
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Attack of the little red arrows](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/worldbuilding-wednesday-attack-of-the-little-red-arrows/) - What's this? A worldbuilding Wednesday post actually on a Wednesday! Amazing! Today I bring you... that's right, more maps! Sorry, just not done with 'em yet! I'm having a lot of fun though, so I don't mind. Recently I've been adding some layers with information on them to my map, the sort of stuff that'll
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back Into The Groove](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/twice-fortnightly-back-into-the-groove/) - After my little setback last week, this week I feel like I've really gotten back into the groove. In spite of a busy week at work and socially, I have: Read through a few more chapters of my current MS. I'm really enjoying working with it, but I've come to realize that it's gonna need
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Breakup](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/flash-fiction-friday-the-breakup/) - Wow, for once I'm aware of what day of the week it is and at my computer and not too sleepy to blog. I feel like I've been missing my scheduled posts a lot lately, especially on Wednesdays but also on Fridays. But maybe I haven't. To be honest, it feels like this week has been three weeks long
- [Twice Fortnightly - Creative Hangover](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/twice-fortnightly-creative-hangover/) - I've had a really great weekend. I was out of town attending a BJD convention . I left Gothenburg brim-full with creative energy and feeling rather spiffy. This morning, however, what I usually call creative hangover struck. I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but sometimes when I'm just practically sparking with energy
- [Flash Fiction Friday - Almost not flash](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/09/flash-fiction-friday-almost-not-flash/) - Today I'm in Gothenburg, which means I'm away from my trusty Dixit cards so I won't be doing an image prompt. Actually, I won't be doing a prompt at all. My head is full of magic. I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Arabic (a marvelous experience I will eventually blog
- [Twice Fortnightly - A Case of Sleepyitis](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/twice-fortnightly-a-case-of-sleepyitis/) - This week didn't go quite as planned. I got, apparently, an unexpected case of sleepyitis. I kept thinking I'd do this or the other thing in the evening and then there I was, eyelids drooping way earlier than normal. This hampered my productivity a bit, especially on the day when I was at my day
- [Twice Fortnightly - That lovely smell...](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/twice-fortnightly-that-lovely-smell/) - ...of printer ink! This is the MS for my next big project. Rougly 105 pages which took my wee printer a good long time to write. I drafted this project during Camp NaNo in April, and it is chaos! It's totally anachronic (not in a good way!) and has a bunch of viewpoint characters with very different
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Pillars](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/flash-fiction-friday-the-pillars/) - Once again, I almost forgot it was Friday. I think I should get into the habit of picking my prompt card earlier in the day, so I'm not always doing these pieces just before bed. Oh well, next week maybe... Here is today's card. As usual, all credit to the awesome Dixit illustrators: The Pillars
- [Worldbuilding Wednesday - Islands!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/worldbuilding-wednesday-islands/) - I haven't had time to do much worldbuilding since last week because I was away for the weekend, but I did manage a bit of progress. I feel I'm getting close to being done enough with my map to transfer it to a digital medium and start adding colors and textures. Exciting! Tonight, I worked
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back to Work](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/twice-fortnightly-back-to-work-2/) - So, today I went back to my day job. I was ambivalent about it, but now that I'm back it mostly feels good. I've missed my colleagues! The only real bummer is it leaves less time for my creative work. With that in mind, I've revised my "productivity block" system to get a little more
- [Flash Fiction Friday  - The Map](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/flash-fiction-friday-the-map/) - Today's piece of flash fiction isn't based on a prompt. It came to me while in the car on the way to a family thing this weekend. My dad asked my to read the map while he drove, which my mom usually does but she was going there view a different route so she wasn't
- [Twice Fortnightly - Last Week of Vacation](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/twice-fortnightly-last-week-of-vacation/) - That's right, next week I'm back to work again. I'm a bit nervous. Not about going back to work in and of itself, but about to what extent I'll be able to keep my non-dayjob days active and productive. I've been getting a lot done these past few weeks, without feeling stressed, and I'd love
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Ghosts](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/flash-fiction-friday-the-ghosts/) - As you may have noticed, I skipped my Worldbuilding Wednesday this week. I just hadn't made enough progress with my map this week for it to be worth a post. But never fear, Flash Fiction Friday is here! With a card from Dixit, once again. And once again, credit for the image goes to the
- [Twice Fortnightly - After Camp](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/08/twice-fortnightly-after-camp/) - I told you already last week, though the month wasn't over yet, that I won Camp. My total word count came to just shy of 20k, so I was quite happy with that. As I've also mentioned I was working on some erotic shorts that I'll be publishing under a pen name. I should be
- [Flash Fiction - The Wolf](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/flash-fiction-the-wolf/) - I'm doing another prompt from Seventh Sanctum today, and it's: she could tell he was howling. She could tell he was howling. She could always tell when he was howling, ever since that first time she visited the wolf sanctuary and the guide let her come into ten enclosure of the pack he'd raised himself
- [Twice Fortnightly - Winner!!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/twice-fortnightly-5/) - Yesterday, I won Camp NaNo! My goal was only 15k, but even so I'm happy about it. I've finished one short, nearly finished a second and have maybe 25% of a third. If I can keep up a decent pace (having already won is surprisingly demotivating), I am hoping I'll hit 20k and have two
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Dollhouse](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/flash-fiction-friday-the-dollhouse/) - Hi guys! It's Flash Fiction Friday! I've had the most frustrating day, so I'm gonna get right down to business. Here is today's Dixit card: Credit, as usual, to the Dixit people and their illustrators for the image. Also, isn't it adorable? The Dollhouse Mimi always knew her dolls weren't just dolls. She never saw
- [Welcome to Worldbuilding Wednesday](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/welcome-to-worldbuilding-wednesday/) - As I've mentioned in my Monday updates lately, I'm currently working on a big worldbuilding project. Since I thought it might be fun to share my work, and since I have an undying and probably unhealthy love for alliteration, I am hereby introducing Worldbuilding Wednesday, during which I'll post about my progress, the problems I
- [Twice Fortnightly - New-ish Projects](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/twice-fortnightly-new-ish-projects/) - I hope you've all had a good week! I've had a okay week myself. This week I'm back to my original routine of worldbuilding, studying and writing as opposed to worldbuilding, writing and worldbuilding. To be honest, the double worldbuilding sessions didn't make too much of a difference, I wasted most of them overthinking things
- [Flash Fiction Friday - the Letter](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/flash-fiction-friday-the-letter/) - Let's pretend that it's Friday today and I didn't totally forget the flash fiction prompt yesterday. I am out and about right now so instead of doing a Dixit card prompt, I used a website called Seventh Sanctum. The prompt was this: I have my tomes - now I'm going into hiding. The letter Dear
- [Twice Fortnightly - Worldbuilding Week!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/twice-fortnightly-worldbuilding-week/) - Last night I handed in a long overdue assignment. It didn't turn out very well, but I'm holding out hope that it turned out well enough and that I won't have to re-do it. Next week I'm moving on to the next module on my to-study list, but this week I'm giving myself a bit
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Struggle](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/flash-fiction-friday-the-struggle/) - It's Friday again! This week's #CoffeeHousePrompt is: a struggle. And this is the image prompt I pulled out of my Dixit deck: As usual, all credit for the image to the Dixit people! Here's the flash fiction, totally improvised right as I'm posting this. The Struggle His prison has grown more cramped as the days
- [Twice Fortnightly - Spotty Progress](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/twice-fortnightly-spotty-progress/) - It's been a weird first week of Camp NaNoWriMo. I've had two good days, two awful days and one okay day (hopefully a late night writing spurt will make it two okay days so far). I'm still well on track for my goal of 15k (I raised it from 10k a couple of days in),
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Sword](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/07/flash-fiction-friday-the-sword/) - Hey, it's Friday! And I didn't forget about my flash fiction post! This week there wasn't a prompt at the community on G+, so I did just a Dixit-inspired piece. If you didn't read my Flash Fiction Friday post last week, Dixit is an absolutely awesome board game that you should definitely google and probably
- [Twice Fortnightly - One Day Left!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/06/twice-fortnightly-one-day-left/) - Until Camp NaNoWriMo, that is. And personally, I'm just itching to get started! It's been a really good week this week. The schedule I set up for myself in last week's update is working really well! Quite contrary to what I feared, the studying part of it has progressed slowly but surely, and the part I've
- [Flash Fiction Friday - The Hidden Door](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/06/flash-fiction-friday-the-hidden-door/) - I've been thinking for a while that I want to start doing more flash fiction and work more with writing prompts. I don't do that a lot, but I find it to be a great way to get new ideas or develop ones that haven't found their place yet. So, as of today, I will
- [Little Liebster Hop!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/06/little-liebster-hop/) - The other day, my friend Grace tagged me in a blog hop (thank you, Grace!). On closer inspection, I realized that it's actually a Liebster award blog hop. Since I've done the Liebster twice before, once here and once on my Sims 2 blog, I figure I'm gonna skip the nomination bit and just answer the
- [Twice Fortnightly - Dress Rehearsal Rag is out! And onwards.](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/06/twice-fortnightly-dress-rehearsal-rag-is-out-and-onwards/) - This weekend, about 6 months and 10 days after the release of Going Home, its sequel Dress Rehearsal Rag hit the Kindle Store and Smashwords. Yay! Normally I'd do a separate post about news as big as this, but since it's Monday, and since I've already told most people about it view Twitter, Facebook and
- [Twice Fortnightly - The Waiting Game](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/06/twice-fortnightly-the-waiting-game/) - I did it, guys! I finished my edits! And I'm exhausted! It was a strange week. Total brain-blockage all week, and then edited like a mad woman all weekend. Now the MS is with the proofreaders, and it looks like I'll hear back from both her and the cover artist on Wednesday. So today I've been
- [Giveaway! - Digital Copies of Going Home and Dress Rehearsal Rag](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/05/giveaway-digital-copies-of-going-home-and-dress-rehearsal-rag/) - That's right guys, it's time for my first ever giveaway! Or actually giveaways, in plural, because there are two. Exciting! To celebrate the upcoming release of Dress Rehearsal Rag I'm giving away two digital copies of it, and two digital copies of Going Home, the book that came before it. If you aren't familiar with Going Home yet, check out
- [Dress Rehearsal Rag - Blurb!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/06/dress-rehearsal-rag-blurb/) - I had planned to post this on Tuesday but somehow it's now Friday and I'd totally forgot! Bad Emma! Anyway, I now have an official blurb for Dress Rehearsal Rag. Here it is: Orryn has a room of her own, a part-time job and, for the first time in her adult life, real friends. If not
- [Twice Fortnightly - Crunch Time!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/06/twice-fortnightly-crunch-time/) - That's right guys, it's crunch time! Edits are going well, if a bit more slowly than I'd like. This week I have: Did my daily writing, which mostly consisted of editing Dress Rehearsal Rag. It needs to be run through twice more or so, but it's starting to get there! Just a few more kinks to iron
- [Dress Rehearsal Rag - Excerpt #1](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/05/dress-rehearsal-rag-excerpt-1/) - As promised, here's an excerpt from Dress Rehearsal Rag: Later that night, the dining room was bustling with it’s usual activity. A bowl of potato salad, Joe’s special and very appreciated recipe, was being passed around. They were all there except for Miranda who was working late that day and was expected to return at any
- [Twice Fortnightly - Feedback! Sweet, sweet feedback!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/05/twice-fortnightly-4/) - Exciting news, guys! I got notes on Dress Rehearsal Rag from the first of my beta readers the other day. And let me tell you, they rock! So helpful. I'm going to start working through them later today, and hopefully notes from the others should come in later in the week. I always feel like a
- [Tribe News - 2 Releases and one Upcoming + Bonus](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/05/tribe-news-2-releases-and-one-upcoming-bonus/) - I just wanted to do a quick post tonight to tell you about some exciting news from some of my writing buddies! Now, I've only read one of the books I'm about to mention but I'm planing to read a lot in the summer after my release and these will be at the top of
- [Twice Fortnightly - Riveting Realizations](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/05/twice-fortnightly-riveting-realizations/) - I had a lovely realization recently. It was this: in my company account I have a few hundred dollars, money I've earned on my freelance translations. I am perfectly allowed to use that money to reinvest in my business by spending it on things relation to my writing (since that is, after all, part of
- [Twice Fortnightly - More Baby Steps](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/05/twice-fortnightly-3/) - It's been a pretty good week, here. Nice weather and a lot of things checked off the to-do list. Mostly small things, but it's progress anyway. I've had a strange feeling of being very busy and at the same time not really doing anything. In spite of that, this past week I have: Done my
- [Twice Fortnightly - I survived Camp! So... Now what?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/05/twice-fortnightly-i-survived-camp-so-now-what/) - That's right, I survived Camp NaNo once again! I even won, reaching my word goal of 50k, which feels pretty dang awesome. Writing this story was a bit of a wild ride; it sprawled all over the place like a well-fed weed. It also decided that it wants to be a graphic novel when it
- [Twice Fortnightly - Halfway There!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/04/twice-fortnightly-halfway-there/) - Hey, another week, another blog post! And I made it to 25k for CampNaNoWriMo. Yay! As you can see below, it's been upward and onward all week! Feels pretty awesome. I've been regularly writing 2k or so daily for the last while, and really enjoying this story. Today's been a bit of an off day
- [Twice Fortnightly - No P-o-D, but lots of creative energy!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/04/twice-fortnightly-no-p-o-d-but-lost-of-creative-energy/) - That's right, folks, I still haven't looked into the Print-on-Demand thing. I should probably stop saying I will, and just let ya'll be pleasantly surprised when I actually do it. So, what have I done this week? Well, this: Not a very productive week, as you can see. I had this freelance project I was working on,
- [Book Mail! Z.R. Southcombe](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/04/book-mail-z-r-southcombe/) - I just had to show you guys this awesome bit of book mail I got yesterday! Two books and a bit of swag by my friend and fellow writer Z. R. Southcombe. I got super duper lucky and won not one but two of the giveaways she hosted when her latest book, The Caretaker of Imagination, was
- [Twice Fortnightly - Happy Easter!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/04/twice-fortnightly-happy-easter/) - I hope you've all had a lovely Easter weekend, Christians, heathens and others alike! I've spent a few days in the countryside, in my parents' summerhouse, enjoying good food, board games and good company, but only semi-decent weather. As I normally do, I slightly overestimated how much writing I'd get done while away. Or rather
- [Twice Fortnightly - Calm before the Camp](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/twice-fortnightly-calm-before-the-camp/) - Eek, it's almost April! I'm so excited for Camp. I'll be honest, though, there's another story that's occupying most of my writerly thoughts right now so I'm a bit worries about whether I'll be able to switch gears to my Camp project. But I've done it before so it should be okay. So, what have
- [Spotlight - Cirkeln (the movie)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/spotlight-cirkeln-the-movie/) - I was actually going to blog about something totally different tonight, but then I went to the cinema with a friend and her husband and saw Cirkeln, a Swedish fantasy film based on a book with the same name by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren. It is the first book in the Engelsfors trilogy, and both Cirkeln (the
- [Twice Fortnightly - Beta Time!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/twice-fortnightly-beta-time/) - I did it guys, I finished my draft! I had a terrible writing week with a serious case of "end of book"-jitters, but in the weekend I finally pulled myself together and finished it. On Sunday, I sent it out to my lovely beta readers. Can't wait to hear what they say! Other than that
- [Guest Spotlight - Z.R. Southcombe on Roald Dahl: Inspiration and Imagination](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/guest-spotlight-zee-southcombe-on-x/) - Today I'm very happy to introduce the first ever guest post here on my blog, a short "spotlight" post by my good friend and fellow writer Z.R. Southcombe about one of her literary idols. Z.R. released her debut What Stars Are Made Of, a word-less storybook, in late 2014 and just yesterday her latest novel, The
- [Twice Fortnightly - Almost Drafted!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/twice-fortnightly-almost-drafted/) - What a week! It seems spring has come to Stockholm and I've been enjoying the lovely weather as well as doing a lot of writing. Here's what I've done: Drafted chapters 15-19 of Dress Rehearsal Rag. It's weird, I'm not sure why I had this as my goal since the plan was to only have 20 chapters
- [Thoughts on Starting a Business](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/thoughts-on-starting-a-business/) - I am a sole proprietorship! By which I mean, I have a sole proprietorship! By which I mean, as soon as my official letter from the tax agency comes in the post (next week I hope) I will have had a sole proprietorship since the end of February. And some people claim that time is
- [Twice Fortnightly - Drafting Season](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/twice-fortnightly-drafting-season/) - This morning, I was super nervous. The reason for this was that yesterday I finished re-writing chapter 13 of "the sequel", so today I had to work on chapter 14. Chapter 14 onward consists mostly of drafting new material rather than rewriting my old draft, and for some reason this suddenly felt very scary. Like, what
- [Dress Rehearsal Rag - Coming in June 2015!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/dress-rehearsal-rag-coming-in-june-2015/) - That's right, peeps, the title of my upcoming novella is Dress Rehearsal Rag. As you may know, it's the sequel of Going Home. I've decided to release it in early June. I figure, even if I finish it in late May, a few days extra polishing doesn't hurt! So what do you think of the title?
- [Twice Fortnightly - Heaps of Progress](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/03/twice-fortnightly-2/) - I've had on of those wonderfully energetic weeks where you accomplish a lot but it doesn't feel like you've done that much. Yay for those! I hope to carry on the trend into next week. The work with the sequel is going really well. I'm very happy with how it's shaping up this time around,
- [Word Cloud of Going Home!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/02/word-cloud-of-going-home/) - Hey guys, look what I made! It's a word cloud made with the full text of Going Home. I'm going to print and laminate it and put it up somewhere in my flat. I sort of want to do this with all my future books. I think it's just a fun way to sort of commemorate
- [Twice Fortnightly - Decisions Made](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/02/twice-fortnightly-decisions-made/) - This has been a very productive week on a theoretical level, and a slightly less productive week on a practical level. I've made some "big choices" , as it were, about my current writing projects and it feels great to put some of my questions marks behind me. The biggest of the two choices was
- [Tribe News: 2 New Releases and 1 Upcoming](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/02/tribe-news-2-new-releases-and-1-upcoming/) - One of the things that I love most about being a writer and, I think, one of the driving factors behind how far I've come in the past year, is the wonderful "writer tribe" I've found myself a part of through the magic of the interwebs. Having "colleagues" who can share advice and experience, offer
- [Twice Fortnightly - Slow Grind](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/02/twice-fortnightly-slow-grind/) - As you may have noticed, it is Tuesday. Yesterday I was in such an off mood, I spent the whole day watching Orphan Black and then slumped directly into bed after an evening visit at my parents' place. Bleh! So I'm blogging today instead. The week has been all right but slow. For some reason,
- [The Liebster Award! I nominate... You!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/02/the-liebster-award-i-nominate-you/) - I was recently nominated for the Liebster Award by Paola Crespo, one of my writing Tweeps! Thank you, Paola! So what's the Liebster Award? Well, it's more of a sort of blog hop that you pass along to up-and-coming bloggers who perhaps don't have a lot of followers yet. The rules are as follows: 1.
- [Twice Fortnightly - Short and Sweet!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/02/twice-fortnightly-short-and-sweet/) - Oh boy, I should not wait this late with blogging, my head is a total blank! So I'll keep this short and sweet. This week I have: Done my daily writing! Wrote a few new scenes for the sequel to Going Home Posted a Spotlight post about Leonard Cohen Started working on my "master list" of
- [Spotlight - Leonard Cohen (Live in Concert)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/02/spotlight-leonard-cohen-live-in-concert/) - Note: I have for some time planned to start doing "Spotlight" posts on artists, writers, characters, genres, series and whatever else that I am particularly fond of. I wanted to start by writing about my all-time favorite musician and one of the biggest sources of poetic inspiration in my life, Leonard Cohen. But instead of
- [Twice Fortnightly - Eager Unfocused Beaver](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/02/twice-fortnightly-eager-unfocused-beaver/) - It's been a strange week, friends. Though after all the great things that happened, writing-wise, last week this one was bound to be a little bit of a let down either way. I'm in this mood where I want to work on all my writing projects at once and most days I'm vaguely irked that things
- [Twice Forthnightly - Maybe the best week so far](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/twice-forthnightly-maybe-the-best-week-so-far/) - Well, maybe not the best week of my life in general, but last week was certainly one of the best weeks in terms of writing, or post-writing. I got two five star reviews and was featured on 3 different blogs. Awesome. I have also: Done my daily writing... mostly. A few haikus, anyway. Make a list of potential
- [Tool Tip - ProWritingAid (Free)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/tool-tip-prowritingaid-free/) - Today I'm starting a new segment here on the blog called Tool Tips, where I'll feature different tools (books, software, apps, what have you) that I find useful as an author and think other authors (and in some cases non-authors) might find useful too. Technically I suppose you could say my posts about the writing book One
- [Going Home Media Roundup!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/going-home-media-roundup/) - Even just typing that title feels totally surreal. But since Going Home has in fact been featured on a few other people's websites lately, I thought I'd do a nice, neat media roundup for those of you who do not, in fact, watch my Twitter feed intently. This week started off fantastically, with my friend Grace posting
- [Twice Forthnightly - Nameless Progress](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/twice-forthnightly-nameless-progress/) - I actually couldn't remember exactly what I had put on my list for this week. Or rather, I thought I could remember but since I'd done everything I thought I must be missing something. Turns out I didn't! This week I have: Done my daily writing, including a few test scenes for some ideas I'm
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back in the saddle!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/twice-fortnightly/) - Somehow it became Tuesday again. Whoops! I guess you lose track of the days when you're busy. This week I have: Done my daily writing, mostly anyway. Printed the sequel to Going Home and started reading through it. Before I started I was convinced I'd scrap the first couple of chapters and start later, but now
- [One Year to a Writing Life - General Impressions + December](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/one-year-to-a-writing-life-general-impressions-december/) - It's now been over a year since I started working with One Year to a Writing Life. With varying degrees of enthusiasm, I've worked through all 12 chapters so I thought it was time to summarize my general impressions of the book here. But first, I'll talk briefly about the last chapter, called Writing the Way Home.
- [Reading Challenge - 15 Unreads - How did it go?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/reading-challenge-15-unreads-how-did-it-go/) - As some of you may remember, a while back I decided to give myself a reading challenge during my winter hols by reading 15 unread books from my bookshelf. Well, I've been back at work for two days now, so how did the challenge go? Well, it went... so-so. I had a lot of fun
- [Twice Fortnightly - Back to Work](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/twice-fortnightly-back-to-work/) - My long, lovely winter vacation is about to come to an end. Tomorrow I print the sequel to Going Home to read through it and start planning how to restructure it, and on Wednesday I go back to work. It feels... good and bad. It'll be nice to get back into the groove of things, but it's
- [Five, Seven, Five - ThinkKit Prompt #31](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2015/01/five-seven-five-thinkkit-prompt-31/) - So it's here, the last ThinkKit prompt of the year. I was too sleepy to write it last night after staying up to watch the fireworks and have a delicious dinner with my parents and my bf, so I'm doing it now instead. The prompt, to my delight, was to show something about your past, present
- [A Single Word - ThinkKit Prompt #30](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/a-single-word-thinkkit-prompt-30/) - Today’s ThinkKit prompt, the second to last of the year, is to try and find a word with which to sum up your year. Well, I've got a word for you: milestones. This year, I published my first book. My boyfriend moved here from Canada. I finally finished a course that's been tormenting me for a
- [Twice Fortnightly - Welcome, 2015!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/twice-fortnightly-welcome-2015/) - Okay, it's a day early to welcome the new year, but I'm not gonna be posting this tomorrow, now am I? In fact, I should have posted this yesterday but I had this killer headache in the evening so I elected to postpone. During this, the last full week of the year, I have: Written almost
- [One Small Step - ThinkKit Prompt #28](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/one-small-step-thinkkit-prompt-29/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt is to write about something you can do to support a goal you have for 2015. One of the more specific prompts of the month, I think. Now, I'm not gonna talk about my goals for 2015 since I already blogged about those a few days ago. So instead I'm gonna tell you
- [Goin' Places/Show and Tell - ThinkKit Prompt #26 and #27](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/goin-placesshow-and-tell-thinkkit-prompt-26-and-27/) - Two ThinkKit prompts in one day today, again. I had actually planned to post yesterday but I ended up going to a late of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and when I got back home I was just too sleepy to put the computer on. Yesterday's prompt was to write about a place that
- [A Dash of Thanks - ThinkKit Prompt #25](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/a-dash-of-thanks-thinkkit-prompt-25/) - I was planning to make this a double post, ThinkKit prompt #24 and #25. #25 was to share a photo of a tradition from the past year. I was planning to take a photo of our Christmas Day board game session earlier today but I totally forgot, so I'll have to stick to #24, which is
- [Writing Plans for 2015 (A.k.a. ThinkKit Prompt #22)](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/writing-plans-for-2015-a-k-a-thinkkit-prompt-22/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt is a free choice (Chef's choice, as the email said) and since I've been thinking lately that I should post about my plans for 2015 on the blog I thought I'd make a "two birds, one stone" thing of it. I've been seeing a lot of posts about plans for next year on
- [Twice Fortnightly - Almost Christmas](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/twice-fortnightly-almost-christmas/) - I can't believe it's only two days until Christmas! Okay, three for a lot of you but in this neck of the woods, we celebrate on the 24th. I have it mostly under control: the flat is clean-ish and has been at least partially Christmassed up, the presents are wrapped all except two and I
- [Ooh! Aaah! - ThinkKit Prompt #21](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/ooh-aaah-thinkkit-prompt-21/) - Yesterday's ThinkKit prompt was skipped because I was at a wedding and got home late, but today's is to write about something that surprised you this year (hence the somewhat suggestive title). Well, a lot of things has surprised me this year, like most years. How much better I sleep with the window open has surprised
- [Insert Theme Music Here - ThinkKit Prompt #19](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/insert-theme-music-here-thinkkit-prompt-19/) - Today’s ThinkKit prompt is to talk about what the "soundtrack of your year" has been. If I hadn't already mentioned it I would've talked about Tori Amos' Midwinter Graces (even if that's only been the soundtrack of December for me), but since I've already talked about it I'll have to pick something else. It's sort of
- [The Virtual Cookie Exchange Blog Hop!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/the-virtual-cookie-exchange-blog-hop/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt is replaced by this post: my entry in Linda Poitevin’s Virtual Cookie Exchange Blog Hop.! I was tagged by Debbie Vega (thank you!) who shared a recipe for some delicious-sounding pumpkin peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. The hop is really simple: you share a cookie recipe and tag four more people to do the same the
- [Lucky Number - ThinkKit Prompt #15](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/lucky-number-thinkkit-prompt-15/) - Today’s ThinkKit prompt is to write about a number that's had some sort of significance in 2014. Well, I pick the number: I like the number 27. 9x3 = 27. 3³ = 27. 9, 3 and 7 are my favorite numbers so you can see why it would appeal to me. 2 is okay, I suppose,
- [Twice Fortnightly - I'm Published!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/twice-fortnightly-im-published/) - Wow, guys, what a week it's been! On Thursday, 11/12-2014, I published Going Home, my debut novella, on Amazon Kindle. I had planned to publish it on Saturday the 13th, but since I'd heard it could take a while for books to come up on the web I thought I'd upload it early. Color me
- [Look Outward, Look Inward - ThinkKit Prompt #14](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/look-outward-look-inward-thinkkit-prompt-14/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt is to write about something you have discovered this year. Well, to keep it short and sweet, I recently discovered Tori Amos' Christmas album Midwinter Graces and have been listening to it daily, sometimes non-stop on repeat, ever since. I really like the vibe of it. You should totally check it out. ThinkKit is
- [Reading Challenge - 15 Unreads in 18 days.](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/reading-challenge-15-unreads-in-18-days/) - A while back, I stumbled across A year of reading the world, a blog by a woman who challenged herself to read one book from each of the 195 UN-recognized sovereign states plus Taiwan (for a total of 196) in one year. I thought this sounded both like a fun project, and like a project
- [Mulligan - ThinkKit Prompt #12](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/mulligan-thinkkit-prompt-12/) - Yesterday's ThinkKit prompt got overshadowed by me freaking out over how quickly Going Home was published on Amazon. Today the prompt is to wite about something from the last year that you wish you could do over (hence the rather lame title). I knew before I'd even finished reading the prompt what I'd write about.
- [Going Home is now for sale on Amazon Kindle!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/going-home-is-now-for-sale-on-amazon-kindle/) - You know how they say that good things come to those who wait? Well, sometimes good thing jump on those who wait two days earlier than what they'd expected! Sometimes the good things are like "see you in a bit! Wait, just kidding, I'm coming now!" and they barge in through your door and there
- [Weird. Wild. Wacky. - ThinkKit Prompt #10](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/weird-wild-wacky-thinkkit-prompt-10/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt, which I nearly forgot to do, is to write about something weird that happened to you in the last year. An odd coincidence perhaps, or an inexpiable series of events. The reason I almost forgot about the prompt was that I'm currently working on getting Going Home ready for publishing, and familiarizing myself with
- [Just Can't Wait - ThinkKit Prompt #9](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/just-cant-wait-thinkkit-prompt-9/) - As you may have noticed, I ended up skipping my ThinkKit prompt yesterday. It was about rants and raves, encouraging bloggers to get up on the soapbox about some issue and I skipped it because: a) when I try to soapbox in writing it tends to become long and incoherent and I upset myself in
- [Going Home - Cover Reveal](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/going-home-cover-reveal/) - This week's Twice Fortnightly has been cancelled in favor of, drum-roll please, the cover reveal of Going Home! About time, too, with only a few days to go! As you may recall from my post last week I decided, quite at the last minute, to hire someone to do my cover instead of doing it myself. Since my budget is um...
- [Alla-Kazam! - ThinkKit Prompt #7](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/alla-kazam-thinkkit-prompt-7/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt encourages bloggers to think of one thing they would magically change in 2015 if they could. I always find those sorts of questions tricky. They make me feel like a contestant in one of those beauty pageants, where they're supposed to say what they wish for and they all say "World Peace". Because
- [Third Place - ThinkKit Prompt #6](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/third-place-thinkkit-prompt-6/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt is about your "third home", that place besides your home and your work where you spent lots of time this year. And honestly, I can't think of one. I mean, I spend a fair bit of time at my folks' place, at my best friend's flat, at cafés and on the bus
- [Aloha! - ThinkKit Prompt #5](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/aloha-thinkkit-prompt-5/) - Today's ThinkKit is called "Aloha" and encourages bloggers to talk about something they've said goodbye, or hello, to during the year. Well, I intend to do both. This year I said hello to my new Twitter account (@EmmaLindhagen for those of you who don't know) and, eventually, goodbye to my old one. This might not seem like
- [One  Year to a Writing Life - November - Rewriting](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/01/one-year-to-a-writing-life-november/) - The 11th, and second to last, chapter of One Year to a Writing Life is about rewriting. I'll confess that due to NaNo and the impending release of Going Home, I haven't managed to put quite as much time into the exercises as I normally do. The chapter featured a quite comprehensive list of things to look at when
- [2¢ - ThinkKit Prompt #4](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/2¢-thinkkit-prompt-4/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt is to write about a piece of advice one has been given during the year and to be honest, I'm struggling with what to write about. It's not that I haven't recieved any advice this year. On the contrary, I've recieved loads. When you're a writer who follows a lot of other
- [Deck the LOLs - ThinkKit prompt #3](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/deck-the-lols-thinkkit-prompt-3/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt was to write about something incredibly funny that happened in the last year. Well, to be honest I wasn't able to think of any one thing that deserved this place of honor on the blog. But I could think of a person: my boyfriend. As I mentioned yesterday, my boyfriend moved in
- [Flip the Script - ThinkKit Prompt #2](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/flip-the-script-thinkkit-prompt-2/) - Today's ThinkKit prompt is called "Flip the Script" and encourages bloggers to talk about how they've change their mind, in some major or minor way, during the last year. Well, as it happens, I have recently flipped the script in quite a significant way regarding the cover of my upcoming novella Going Home. When I
- [Twice Forthnightly - Going Home has a blurb! Oh and I won Nano](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/twice-forthnightly-its-december-oh-and-i-won-nano/) - So, this weekend I made this biiig decision regarding Going Home and got sucked into editing the book so I actually almost forgot it was still NaNoWriMo. Luckily I pulled my head out of editing long enough to finish NaNo. It's weird, I'm super happy to be done with it and excited about the story I
- [A Thousand Words - ThinkKit Prompt #1](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/12/a-thousand-words-thinkkit-prompt-1/) - So, here we are! December 1st, and the first day of the ThinkKit December blogging prompts. Today's prompt is called A Thousand Words and challenges bloggers to share their year in photos, and talk about the role photos play in their lives. 2014 has been a year of ups and downs, the downs mostly involving stress
- [Twice Forthnightly - One year older, one year wiser?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/11/twice-forthnightly-one-year-older-one-year-wiser/) - Hey, guess what? I'm 27! And I've got some scotch, new running gear and a copy of the awesome board game Dixit to prove it (among other things). This has contributed to the past week being a pretty good week, and my productivity level has made it an even better one. I have: Written ~1k
- [Playing with poetry: a Biopoem](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/11/playing-with-poetry-a-biopoem/) - So, the other day my friend Zee posted a biopoem on her blog and encouraged others to try writing one. Being up for a challenge, I decided to give it a go. A biopoem is a fun exercise, whose origins I'm unsure of, where you follow a set of instructions to write a poem about yourself.
- [One Year to a Writing Life - July- Tales](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/08/one-year-to-a-writing-life-july/) - The chapter from One Year to a Writing Life that I worked on during the month of July was entitled Tales: Folk, Fairy and Contemporary. It was a fun chapter to read which talked about the form and function of the tale and how it's only fairly recently become something meant "for children". It also features
- [Twice Fortnightly - Sniffles and Coughs may Break my Focus but Words...](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/11/twice-fortnightly-sniffles-and-coughs-may-break-my-focus-but-words/) - ... will just keep coming? I hope so anyway. I came down with a cold suddenly this weekend, but I still managed to write 2k both Saturday and Sunday. In fact, I found myself at the end of my NaNo story on Sunday, with ~35k as my total word count. I had suspected that might
- [A Sneak Peek on Going Home – Excerpt #2](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/11/a-sneak-peek-on-going-home-excerpt-2/) - Guess what? It's only one month until Going Home is released. I can hardly believe it! To celebrate, here is another excerpt from the novella. Enjoy! She wasn’t sure how long she had crouched there when the feeling of panic finally began to dissipate. She hoped she hadn’t missed the train. She trembled as she raised
- [Twice Fortnightly - Full Steam Ahead](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/11/twice-fortnightly-full-steam-ahead/) - You guys, I've had such a great NaNoWriMo-week. I'm super excited about the project I'm working on and having a lot of fun drafting it. My pace is quite a bit higher than it's been the last few NaNos too, which is a great feeling. The project is a YA novel, the first in a series
- [One Year to a Writing Life - October - Memoir and Mosaic](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/11/one-year-to-a-writing-life-october/) - With all the excitement of NaNoWriMo, I nearly forgot that I hadn't posted about chapter 10, which I worked with during October, of One Year to a Writing Life. The title of the chapter was Memoir and Mosaic which I found both intriguing and off-putting. Intriguing because... well, mosaics rock. And off-putting because writing a memoir
- [Twice Fortnightly - NaNo is Upon us!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/11/twice-fortnightly-nano-is-upon-us/) - That's right! It's now November and that means NaNoWriMo is upon us. A busy but fun time of the year for me. This past week I have: Done my daily writing (but not quite reached 1k before NaNo started) Worked on the cover or some other aspect of Going Home not quite, but nearly every day.
- [Announcement - Going Home Release Date!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/11/announcement-going-home-release-date/) - So, I promised you guys a big announcement "on Saturday". In all the excitement of NaNo starting Saturday sort of said zoom and was gone, but here I am, a mere day late, with my announcement: I have settled on a release date for Going Home! Exciting!! Going Home will be released on Kindle on 13/12-2014 (also known
- [Novel In a Day - A First-timers Perspective](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/10/novel-in-a-day-a-first-timers-perspective/) - Last week I, quite spontaneously, decided to participate in the Novel in a Day project. It's quite an interesting project, which I learned about only a few days before signing up. The inventor and host of the project, whose username is pigfender, plans and outlines a novel of whatever genre he pleases, and then the people
- [Twice Fortnightly - What a Week!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/10/twice-fortnightly-what-a-week/) - Boy, I have had a busy week. In the fun, energizing way, not the run around like a chicken with your head cut off way (which is a nice change, truth be told). There's a satisfaction in feeling that you've been productive that I enjoy thoroughly. This week, for the first time since I started
- [Twice Fortnightly - A Sigh of Relief](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/10/twice-fortnightly-a-sigh-of-relief/) - I finally finished my assignment! So now I'm half relieved and half holding my breath waiting to see if I pass. This is a course (or rather a module) that's long overdue for completion, and if I don't get it over with now it'll seriously mess up my plans for the next couple of years.
- [Twice Fortnightly - Viva Barcelona!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/10/twice-fortnightly-viva-barcelona/) - This past week I have: Written ~550 words during my daily writing Started reading October's chapter from One Year to a Writing Life, but not doing the exercises yet Posted about September's chapter from One Year to a Writing Life. I originally thought I hadn't done this because I'd accidentally posted it under the wrong date. My last goal, unfortunately, fell victim
- [One Year to a Writing Life - September - The Alchemy of Writing](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/10/one-year-to-a-writing-life-september/) - So, the chapter from One Year to a Writing Life that I did in September was called The Alchemy of Writing. It was a bit of a weird one. It was about finding an idea and turning it from a little nugget into a story through a series of steps. It started, like the earlier chapter
- [Twice Fortnightly - By the Horns](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/10/twice-fortnightly-by-the-horns/) - This week has gone by so quickly, and I seem to have spent a good part of it, or at least this past weekend, doing things that make me uncomfortable. Mostly working on an assignment I've put off for ages, but also taking the bull by the horns and finally starting to poke at my
- [Twice Fortnightly: A real Milestone!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/09/twice-fortnightly-a-real-milestone/) - Guess what guys? I've finished the major edits of Going Home. Exciting! That's not to say I'm finished. I have a short list of a handful of words/phrases that I tend to overuse that I need to look for and, if needed, cull as well as, of course, proofreading. Still, it feels pretty dang awesome! Now
- [A Sneak Peek on Going Home - Excerpt #1](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/09/a-sneak-peak-on-going-home-excerpt-1/) - I was already in bed when I suddenly remembered that I had meant to post the first excerpt from Going Home today. That'll teach me to schedule important things the day after I'm back from a vacation! Well, I'm back out of bed now so without further ado, here is a little snippet from the very
- [Twice Fortnightly - Home, Sweet Home](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/09/twice-fortnightly-home-sweet-home/) - So, I am back again from my vacation. I'm feeling a bit sluggish this evening so I'll keep this brief. This week I: Wrote ~600 words during my daily writing Edited 3 chapters of Going Home. I might've had time for the last two as well if not for an unplanned goose chase after a bag on
- [Twice Fortnightly - Greetings from Les Sables D'Olonne](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/09/twice-forthnightly-greetings-from-les-sables-dolonne/) - I am currently in Les Sables D'Olonne, a town on the French Atlantic coast. I'm here on holiday with my grandma, staying in a peculiar but charming house that belongs to a cousin of my mother's. I've been in France twice before, both times in Paris, and this place is quite different. Much smaller, of
- [One Year to a Writing Life - August - Poetic Prose and the Prose Poem](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/09/one-year-to-a-writing-life-august-poetic-prose-and-the-prose-poem/) - It's already a good bit into September, but I had some trouble finishing the last exercise from the eighth chapter of One Year to a Writing Life. The chapter was entitled Poetic Prose and the Prose Poem and dealt, quite obviously, with the prose poem and poetic elements in prose. I enjoyed this chapter and the
- [Twice Fortnightly - Poetic Prose is tricky](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/09/twice-fortnightly-poetic-prose-is-tricky/) - No pictures of pretty churches this week, I'm afraid. I've had a bit of a slow week. I got stuck on one of the writing exercises I was supposed to finish, writing a prose poem, and it took me several days to get it done. I'll tell you more about why when I post August's
- [Work in Progress Blog Challenge - Going Home](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/09/work-in-progress-blog-challenge-going-home/) - Recently, I was tagged by fellow writer Zee Southcombe in a Work in Progress blog challenge. It's a very simple one: you post the first line from the first three chapters in your current work in progress and then tag four people to do the same. So without further ado, here are the first lines of
- [Twice Fortnightly - Regional Inspiration](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/09/twice-fortnightly-regional-inspiration/) - This weekend I went on a road trip. Or rather, I went to visit an uncle for a family thing, and most of Saturday was spent on a road trip exploring sights he'd picked out in his region. We visited a nature reserve, an old church and the ruin of an abbey, an arboretum and
- [Twice Fortnightly - Once More, With Feeling](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/08/twice-fortnightly-once-more-with-feeling/) - This past week, I have: Written ~500 during my daily writing. Uploaded a couple of more haikus, but not all of the remaining ones. Done the first two exercises in this chapter of One Year To a Writing Life Edited one chapter of Going Home, namely chapter 4. I've also caught a danged cold! Quite the bummer,
- [Twice Fortnightly - You've Gotta Have Goals](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/08/twice-fortnightly-youve-gotta-have-goals/) - It's funny, every time I think about goals I hear this voice in my head saying "but you've gotta have goals". It's a man's voice and it sounds like he's saying it at the end of some longer speech about life. However, neither my memory or my Google-fu has managed to reveal to me where,
- [Twice Fortnightly - Wattpad Up?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/08/twice-fortnightly-wattpad-up/) - I thought this was gonna be a real bummer of an update, but when I tallied up my daily writing for the past week I realized I haven't been quite as lazy as I thought. I've been procrastinating my editing terribly, though. Bad Emma, no cookie! Okay, one cookie, but only one. Anyhowzers, this week I
- [Twice Fortnightly - There's a boy in my apartment!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/08/twice-fortnightly-theres-a-boy-in-my-apartment/) - A few days ago, my one person household became a two person household when the man I've been in a LDR with for years moved in with me. So far, so good! It's a bit of an adjustment, so I'm a little "off my game" at the moment, but one positive things I've noticed (aside
- [Twice Fortnightly - Getting my editing legs back](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/07/twice-fortnightly-getting-my-editing-legs-back/) - Hey guys! I'm actually posting on a Monday! Wooh! This past week I have, frankly, not been terribly productive, which is at least partially because it's been really warm her this past week and my brain has been melting. However, in spite of that, I have: Gotten back into editing Going Home. So far this has mostly
- [Twice Fortnightly: Modest Progress](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/07/twice-fortnightly-modest-progress/) - This past week I've: Written ~500 words during my daily writing, including two bad haikus and something which might become a post-apocalyptic short story about nail polish. Resumed editing Going Home. I tried reading the chapters out loud to myself as I worked and found it a lot more helpful than I expected. Signed up for
- [One Year to a Writing Life - June](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/07/one-year-to-a-writing-life-june/) - So I was lying on the sofa earlier, playing some Panda Jam and chilling out, when it suddenly dawned on me that I never posted my writing exercises for June. Gasp! So I am doing it now. Chapter 6 of One Year To a Writing Life is about Dialogues. It was a really interesting chapter, and perhaps
- [Twice Fortlightly: Dropping a Ball](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/07/twice-fortlightly-dropping-a-ball/) - So, this past week I have: Maintained my inability to keep track of which day of the week it is and blog on the right one (which, by the way, has now been remedied by a recurring reminder in my to-do app) Obsessed endlessly about a nail polish swap I am currently participating in. Written
- [Twice Fortnightly: Plodding Along](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/07/twice-fortnightly-plodding-along/) - Whoops! Apparently it's Wednesday. This week sort of got away from me. I'm officially adding a recurring task to my to-do-list app so I'll remember to do this on Mondays in future. So what have I been up to this week? Well... not much, to be honest. Or rather, not much besides Camp Nano and
- [Twice Fortnightly: What I've been up to this past week.](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/06/twice-fourthnightly-what-ive-been-up-to-this-past-week/) - Inspired by the lovely Zee Southcombe and her "Week the Was" posts I've decided to do a weekly update every Monday, detailing what I've been up to (in terms of writing) during the past week. I used to do a weekly post on my old, non-writing blog and I quite enjoyed that, so I think I will
- [One Year to a Writing Life - May](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/06/one-year-to-a-writing-life-may/) - So, the fifth chapter in One Year to a Writing Life is about dreams and writing. That was a bit of a change of pace from the previous chapters, and since I've been in the habit of writing down my dreams (provided they are interesting and/or I can remember them coherently enough) I was curious about
- [Back in the sadle!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/05/back-in-the-sadle/) - A few days ago I started the last big round of edits of Going Home. I'm only a few chapters in, and I'm really enjoying it. It's funny, it wasn't until I got to the point where I was actually able to finish an entire draft that I started enjoying editing. It's a very different experience to
- [One Year to a Writing Life - April - The Short Story and the Short-short](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/05/a-year-of-a-writing-life-april-the-short-story-and-the-short-short/) - Boy, did it take me a while to get around to writing this post! I was a bit burnt out on blogging after the A to Z challenge, I think. Anyway, through some miracle I managed to do the Chapter 4 exercises from One Year to a Writing Life during April in spite of said challenge and
- [Zoom! What was that? That was April!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/zoom-what-was-that-that-was-april/) - Now I realized doing Y for Yay and then Z for Zoom might seem to be a bit lazy. But honestly though, hasn't April just zoomed by? I sure don't know where it went! And what a month it's been! A few minutes ago I validated my Camp NaNoWriMo word count (just above 31k), so I
- [Yaaaaay!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/yaaaaay/) - Today's blog post is sponsored by the word yay! There are a lot of thing in life one might go yay about, but tonight I'm going yay because I just reached my 30k word goal for Camp NaNoWriMo. I still have a few paragraphs to write before the story is entirely done, but since it's
- [X is for Xena, naturally!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/x-is-for-xena-naturally/) - To be totally honest I don't know that many words that begin with X, and the only one that really came to mind was: Xena! Xena (as in the warrior princess, not the dwarf planet currently known as Eris) was my first real TV crush and remains one of my major on-screen heartthrobs. I mean,
- [Worldbuilding - What do I need to Know?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/worldbuilding-what-do-i-need-to-know/) - I admire those writers who have outlined the entire histories of the worlds their stories take place in, who can describe every culture present in detail and even had the wildlife and geography of their entire world planned out. I am not one of those writers. I used to think that I would be, but
- [V is for Vocabulary](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/v-is-for-vocabulary/) - Vocabularies are funny things. In Swedish, vocabulary is called ordförråd which literally means "word stockpile" or "word storage" so I always imagine a vocabulary being a sort of large cupboard that you put words into. With my Arabic studies, vocabulary has always been my biggest problem (other than, you know, actually having the guts to speak).
- [Undergrad For Life](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/undergrad-for-life/) - Okay, maybe "for life" is a bit of an exaggeration, but I have been an Undergrad for quite a while now. It's nearly 5 years since I started doing Arabic, and it'll be at least one more year until I get my Bachelor's Degree. That's twice as long as it "should" take, but I don't mind.
- [Teddies, Teddies everywhere](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/teddies-teddies-everywhere/) - I've always had a thing for teddies. My favorite teddy was given to me when I was only a couple of weeks old and was my constant companion throughout my childhood. His name is Nalle (which is Swedish for teddy) and these days he lives on my bedside table. He used to be blond, with longer
- [Sister, Soulmate, Star](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/sister-soulmate-star/) - When I was in primary school, there was a girl who I greatly admired. She was wonderful: pretty, sweet, funny, she could sing and draw just like from a Disney movie and she had all the coolest toys! I wanted to play with her all the time. Maybe even a bit more often than that. We drifted
- [Rest](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/rest/) - It's funny how sometimes you feel tired at the strangest moments. I've just had ten days off work, so you'd think I'd be well rested and ready to rumble. But in fact, I've been very tired for the last few days, and lagging behind a bit on my writing. I'm not too worried about that,
- [Quite Interesting!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/quite-interesting/) - I had a bit of trouble picking a topic for today. I couldn't think of a writing topic beginning with Q, and I also don't have any hobbies beginning with Q. So instead, I though I'd tell you about this awesome TV show called QI (short for Quite Interesting). It's hosted by Stephen Fry and
- [Poetry](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/poetry/) - I used to write a lot of poetry. My most productive period was probably about 17-20 years of age. At 19 I published a poetry book as a school project. In the last few years I've written considerably less poetry. Not quite sure why, but I miss it and I really think I should try
- [A Born Organizer](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/a-born-organizer/) - I've always been into organizing. I don't just mean that I've always been good at it, but that I've always found it to be enjoyable in some way. My parents have told me that as a toddler, I could spend hours arranging the plastic containers in the kitchen (you know, Tupperware, empty ice cream bins,
- [Nailed It!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/nailed-it/) - Lately I've gotten really into nails and manicures. I mean, I've always liked having some nice color on my nails (as well as keeping them fairly long) but it's only lately that I've really gotten into trying to learn how to do my nails in different ways. For some reason, when I was younger I
- [M is for Main Characters](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/m-is-for-main-characters/) - My stories often, but not always, start with main characters. Occasionally they'll start with a concept or setting but usually the main character function as the seed from which the story grows. That's just how I roll, I guess. A long time ago I had one main character. I kept adding adventures and character traits
- [Lonely no more](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/lonely-no-more/) - I've frequently heard (or rather, read) people refer to being a writer as "the loneliest job on Earth". Maybe there was a time when that was true (although I'm not entirely convinced) but I certainly don't think it's true anymore. It seems to be that the plethora of venues, online and offline, for getting to
- [Release the Kraken!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/release-the-kraken/) - The letter K is a tricky one. So many words that have a K-sounding phonome in the beginning are actually spelled with C in English and it doesn't help that in many cases the same word in my native language, Swedish, is quite similar but spelled with a K. I spent a lot of time
- [On your marks, get set.... Jog!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/on-your-marks-get-set-jog/) - I never really took myself for a jogger. I was always under the impression that jogging was boring, and then a few years ago I decided to try the C25K jogging program. I discovered that not only do I not find jogging boring, I actually really like it! There's just something... meditative, maybe, about it. It's
- [Camp NaNo Inspiration](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/camp-nano-inspiration/) - Inspiration can come from all kinds of things, from the mundane to the fantastic. My current project for Camp NaNoWriMo has been inspired by, among other things and in no particular order: River Song from Doctor Who Vests and bodices The color blue Zhaan from Farscape The notion of identity Spiders Axolotls The combination of white, black and
- [Humor Me!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/humor-me/) - Sometimes I think that the absolute hardest thing to do in writing is to be funny. I just don't know how to do it! I liked to consider myself a pretty funny person outside of writing, but I don't know how to make that translate into my fiction. I find myself writing things, little puns
- [Games and Goals](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/games-and-goals/) - Since I'm doing Camp NaNoWriMo a word that's constantly on my mind is: Goals! I'm talking, of course, about word goals. I'm drafting a novella for Camp and my overall word goal is 30k by the end of the month. This leaves me with a daily word goal of an, in my opinion, reasonably leisurely 1k
- [Why I never wrote Harry Potter Fanfiction](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/why-i-never-wrote-harry-potter-fanfiction/) - The first fandom I was a part of was Harry Potter. There had been other TV shows, books and movies before that I was also a big fan of (Xena, for one) but it wasn't until HP that I experienced the full fandom experience: looking at fanart online, discussing with other fans, reading up on
- [One Year to a Writing Life - March - Opinion Piece and Travel Essay](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/one-year-to-a-writing-life-march-opinion-piece-and-travel-essay/) - Well, April is turning out to be quite the busy month for me, so I thought I'd better hurry and get this post up so I don't forget. The third chapter in One Year to a Writing Life, which I worked through during March, featured opinion pieces and travel essays. There were 4 exercises. Simply
- [A Crazy Doll Lady?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/a-crazy-doll-lady/) - I tried to think of a witty way to start this post but I guess Friday evenings just aren't my wittiest time of the week, so I'll get right to it instead: I collect dolls. Not just any dolls, a particular type of dolls called ABJD (Asian Ball-jointed Doll) or just BJD. Instead of giving
- [Erotica doesn't need a catchy title](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/erotica-doesnt-need-a-catchy-title/) - I occasionally write erotica. Just the odd snippet, for fun. It seems that erotica, like a lot of sexual things, are still sort of looked down on by a lot of people and I think that's a shame. I find it to be a fun genre to read (when done well) and a fun, but challenging,
- [Fancy a Cuppa?](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/fancy-a-cuppa/) - There are many drinks in the world that I enjoy ingesting. A nice, small scotch. Glass of red wine. Some sodas. Hot cocoa. Even the occasional cup of coffee. But none of them compare to my favorite beverage of all, my near constant companion in life: a cup of tea. When I'm at home, I
- [Roses are Red, Aliens are Blue](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/roses-are-red-aliens-are-blue/) - I've realized recently that when I create a character with a skin tone that does not exist in the human spectrum, I seem to default to blue. I'm not really sure why that is. I've read somewhere, though I don't know if it's true, that some designers opt for skin tones on the blue and
- [My Arabic Lovestory](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/04/my-arabic-lovestory/) - On a November afternoon almost 5 years ago now, I found myself crying on a bus that was scurrying through the dark on its way to deliver me to the home of my parents, whom I still lived with at the time. A realization that had been creeping up on me for weeks had lunged
- [Blog Hop: The Writing Process](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/03/blog-hop-the-writing-process/) - Oh my god, you guys, it's my first ever blog hop! Exciting! I was tagged by J. C Hart of Just-Cassie.com, whom I got to know during Camp NaNoWriMo in July 2013. I'll admit I'd been eyeing this blog hop quite lustfully as it's been hopping around on blogs I follow and was really hoping
- [Double Trouble in April: The Blogging from A to Z Challenge](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/03/double-trouble-in-april-the-blogging-from-a-to-z-challenge/) - Since I will have quite a bit of spare time in April I've decided to participate in a second writing challenge alongside Camp NaNoWriMo, namely the Blogging from A to Z Challenge! The challenge is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: you blog from a to z. You do this in April and you
- [For Camp NaNo this April, I'm chasing shiny squirrels](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/03/for-camp-nano-this-april-im-chasing-shiny-squirrels/) - I think that most people who enjoy writing fiction and have made any serious attempt at completing a larger project are familiar with The New Shiny™. For those of you who aren't familiar, The New Shiny™ is that new idea that glimmers at the periphery of your field of vision, distracting you while you try
- [One Year to a Writing Life – February - Personal Essay](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/03/one-year-to-a-writing-life-february-personal-essay/) - The second chapter in A Year to a Writing Life features the personal essay. This is a genre I haven't had much experience with, unless you count blogging and those tedious "What did you do during the summer break?" assignments they kept giving me at school. The exercises in this chapter were quite different from in
- [Ready your tents, it's almost Camp time!](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/03/ready-your-tents-its-almost-camp-time/) - It's March, which means in just one measly month it's time for the April rendition of Camp NaNoWriMo. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Camp NaNoWriMo is a month-long writing project by the same people who run the better-known NaNoWriMo. There are two Camps each year, one in April and one in July. Last
- [One Year to a Writing Life - January - Journaling](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/02/one-year-to-a-writing-life-january-journaling/) - Last July, I participate in Camp NaNoWriMo. During the course of the project I drafted and did a first revision of my novella Going Home (which is now in the later stages of revision) and as a reward to myself for completing the project I decided to purchase a book on writing. After some browsing, I
- [Hello, World! It's Emma calling.](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/01/hello-world/) - When you start a new Wordpress blog, a placeholder post is created with the title "Hello World". Well, that seems to sum up what I want to say right now quite well. Hello, World. This is my blog. Welcome. My name is Emma. I'm a writer. I'm other things too, and if you want to
- [Going Home - A dystopian novella about family, memory and identity](https://www.emmalindhagen.com/2014/02/going-home-a-dystopian-novella-about-family-memory-and-identity/) - Going Home is actually one of my absolute oldest ideas, dating back to when I was 14 (so about 2002). Back then it was supposed to be a YA novel series about a school for spies, which I thought up while reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. About half a dozen metamorphoses later it has

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