JRileyPeak

Author: jrileypeak

  • Building Questline: Quirky Logic, Dictation, and the Road to Publication

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    Questline began with a question that probably says a great deal about how my mind works: What if the entire fantasy questing industry was largely staged? Not fake, exactly. There are still monsters, magic, danger, and all the other things that make a respectable fantasy world hazardous to live in. But what if the quests…

  • Docutizers Saga: Food Critiques

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    Recovered Documents from the Docutizers Archive Selected Culinary Feedback Forms from Across the Realm The following feedback forms were recovered from a filing cabinet marked “Kitchen Complaints – Active Threats.” Questline Headquarters reminds all personnel that dissatisfaction with a meal should be expressed through approved documentation procedures and not through ritual combat, magical retaliation, or…

  • Docutizers Saga: Late Notes

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    Selected Excuses for Tardiness and Workplace Absence Throughout the Realm The following documents were recovered from the lower filing vaults beneath Questline Headquarters after an unfortunate shelving collapse in the Docutizers Archive. Several forms were partially burned, magically stained, or found folded into paper cranes by unknown parties. Questline administration reminds all employees that: are…

  • The Lineup of (Unlikely) Heroes of Questline

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    If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you took a group of questionably qualified individuals and pointed them in the general direction of “heroism”… well, you’re about to find out. Questline begins with a simple, uncomfortable idea: What if heroes aren’t real… and questing is just a well-polished sham? Naturally, the people who stumble…

  • A Taste of Questline

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    When you mention fantasy worlds to people there are some typical ingredients that come to mind: an evil that has grown musty on the shelves of time, a chosen hero that goes from whiny farmer to magnanimous hero (we’re not throwing names here), and a suspiciously New Zeeland backdrop. My mind treated those constraints like…

  • Questline Delayed: A Paradox of Results

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    I enjoy tracking my word output, like most authors. Typically, I’m aiming for a rough daily word count throughout the week (minimum of 250, but once I hit a stride with a story it usually bumps up to more like 700-1,000 words a day) and then I enjoy tallying up the monthly totals to see…

  • Lessons I Learned Through The Game

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    It feels crazy to think that roughly a year ago I declared the manuscript for The Game ready to move forward into pre-publishing work. The feeling of passing the manuscript off of the work table and, in that sense, away from a sense of semi-fluidity under my hands was sureal. It felt like the whole…

  • Questline: The Other Book

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    I know that if I keep switching which book I’m talking about working on I’m going to start sounding very uncommitted to this whole authorship thing. But, I do have one more book to mention at this time. It’s the one I’m actually working on writing at this moment. Enter Questline. This book originally came…

  • What’s This “Big Boy” Book?

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        It may have struck some of you as odd that I’ve leaned my past several months into a project other than Questline. I have every intention of cranking out Questline this year, but before I could lean into it fully I needed to get this larger story out of my head and onto some metaphorical…

  • Summer Thoughts For A Summer Book

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    Greetings and salutations!     Still working on that post for the mysterious large book I’m working on. Times have been busy enough that I haven’t been able to get with my Chief Editor (my wife, Kimberly) to look at the post and decide if I’m saying too much or too little about the project.    But, currently, I…