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Nils O @nils.readindiefantasy.com · 06/09/2026

I may have to add some sitting-in-gazebos-all-alone goth rock to the playlist. I just need to figure out what that actually sounds like. Sisters? The Cure?

Another snippet from that early draft of A Daughter Of These Lands. The text reads:

So she went for a stupid little walk to clear her stupid head and get some fresh bloody air. Much good it was doing her anyway. She was probably lost. She couldn't see the castle from where she stood, or the mansion. There was a little gazebo on a hill she'd passed a while back, but she hadn't stopped.
Sitting in gazebos on your own was just sad. This wasn't some goth rock video, and she wasn't wearing crushed velvet anyway. Better just keep going. There was some kind of fancy magical shrubbery running around the entire place, and if she walked in a straight line, she'd find it, eventually.

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Nils O @nils.readindiefantasy.com · 06/09/2026

When you're trying to write a nature-y story but don't actually know that much about nature:

Another paragraph from A Daughter of these Lands. It reads:

An open field, with large trees here and there. Beech, perhaps. She had no idea. Massive trunks with thick bendy branches and giant leaves. The kind you'd build a magical tree house in and live with your cats.

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