Author: nagi

  • Renna’s Crossing is Officially Published!

    At the time you\’re reading this, my first full-length novel, Renna\’s Crossing, has finally reached its official publishing date of October 29th, 2020. I had mixed feelings about the date when it was first decided way back in March of this year. I\’m happy that the book came out in October, a wonderfully autumnal month…

  • Season 1 of Disney’s The Owl House: Wasted Potential?

    I’ve been looking forward to the Owl House since it was announced back in early 2018. Everything about the show seemed right up my alley: a girl isekai’d into a horror-themed fantasy world where she becomes an apprentice in magic to a sassy mentor “owl witch”. Now that season one is finished, I feel like…

  • Short Thoughts on Literary Perspective

    So I\’ve known this about myself for awhile, but I don’t like fiction where the POV lives “inside the head” of the protagonist(s). It’s too focused on intimately personal and sensory experiences. Some people like that, but I don’t. And that’s okay, it’s a valid writing perspective that doesn’t invalidate other approaches. But I don\’t…

  • Thoughts on Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space

    So most people know by now that season 2 of Bee and Puppycat was leaked out into the internet. As of writing this on 6/9/20, its production company Frederator Studios has had no public response to the issue. But rather than the business dynamics of the animation industry, I had thoughts about the narrative of…

  • Animal Crossing New Horizons – Let\’s Descend into Idyllic Authoritarianism!

    Like many other certified gamers™, I’ve spent the past week running around my beautiful island in Animal Crossing and trying to ignore the real world falling apart around us. Given that pandemics don’t exist in this fictional world of charming animal neighbors and pastel furniture, the lure of its escapism is easy to understand. That…

  • Thoughts on the Process of Public Journaling

    I was gonna make this a Publish or Perish post, but then I didn\’t. It seemed like the right time, looking back at my previous entries and seeing them all spaced about a month apart. But I\’ve also been putting off making another post, because I\’ve realized that I\’m still figuring out my approach to…

  • Publish or Perish: Finding an Artist

    It\’s been a little bit since my last update. I think I\’ve already come to terms with how I\’m not the kind of person who does journaling in a natural kinda way. I know that it\’s probably one of those habits that needs to be built up over time, but that process is also something…

  • Publish or Perish: Cover Story

    I\’ve made some headway in my search for a graphic designer/cover artist for Renna\’s Crossing. I finally got myself to sit and scroll down through tumblr tags that matched the general aesthetic I\’m going for with Renna. That resulted in a list of 11 potential artists and illustrators; now the selection process begins. And that…

  • Publish or Perish: Spooky Edition

    So, I\’ve been doing some back-and-forth with various employees of Bookmobile over the past couple days. It looks like they don\’t offer much in the way of advice/help in preparing a book for print (what exactly is \”front matter\” composed of? It sounds something that needs to be excised with a scalpel.) I think I\’m…

  • Publish or Perish – Journal Entry 10/28/19

    It\’s finally time to the thing I told myself I was gonna do many times before, far too long ago. Attempts at publishing Renna\’s Crossing through traditional means seem to have run their course. I don\’t recall the exact number, and I don\’t have the spiritual fortitude to pop open a new tab and check,…