Mad Mondays: 25 Facts About Dragons!

All right, our very first Mad Monday! I deliver, per request, 25 "facts" about dragons! Granted, they aren't actual facts because dragons have not been proven to exist (yet!), but still, it's a fun list.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I HAVE A POSTING SCHEDULE!!!

Greetings, human and not-so-human readers of Inkweb, my humble internet abode! I bring peace, and cherries, and good tidings, and various other things.

First off, and perhaps most importantly:

I NOW HAVE A DAILY POSTING SCHEDULE!!! HOORAY!!!

Sweet, right? No more prolonged lapses in posting (hopefully), and it'll keep me writing, especially for Short Story Saturdays.

I've added a tab about my blog schedule, entitled "About Inkweb," and it's up above, so if you want to check out my schedule, you can. Basically I'll be posting six days a week.

25 Facts, One Post: Birds!

Hello! I've got 25 facts to share with you guys today!

1. Birds cannot play foosball.

2. Birds have hollow bones.

3. Most birds are able to fly.

4. The penguin, ostrich, emu, kiwi, and chicken cannot fly.

5. Technically the chicken can fly; the longest recorded chicken flight is 13 seconds.

6. The book Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (absolutely amazing book) has a raven's silhouette on the cover.

Searching for Truth - A Poem

Wispy winds carry me along

To my shadowed hiding place

Where I write this tender song

Every night of all the days.

I go there in the evenings,

I stay there till the morn;

I pen my songs and leave for dawn

Where waits my life forlorn.

An answer floated by me

Once on a summer day

While I perched up in an oak tree

The answer slipped away.

I go there for the answers,

I stay there till the morn;

I pen my songs but nothing comes,

To light my life forlorn.

-JW

Villains (A Tag)

Hello, it's Joel! Here on Inkweb I am (finally) going to respond to a tag! Here's the link to Rayne Speryll's blog:

www.writinginrivendell.blogspot.com

Anyway, this tag is especially fun because it asks me to talk about my writing. And what do I love more than talking about writing? Well, actually writing is fun too, but not as much fun if you never share with other people.

All right, the following is seven questions about my favorite villain of my current book or series.

The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back - A Poem

This is a short poem I wrote. One might say that it is about the current state of the world. Enjoy.
-JW

The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back

JW Ball

The straw that broke the camel's back

The star who bent at world's attack

The crack that ruptured continents

The book that maimed all faith and sense

The man who toppled great empires

The spark that started forest fires

Camp NaNoWriMo - Mission Successful!

I have succeeded at Camp NaNoWriMo! I wrote a grand total of 60,931 words this month, with an additional 20,000 before the month began to bring the novel's word count up to...drumroll please...

80,931 WORDS!!!!!!!!

And it turns out I got my word goal just right! At that exact amount of words, I finished the first draft of my novel. And now, to unveil the TITLE!

Broken Thief: The Taskforce, #1