Lliam

Mar 9, 2026

Figure Eight

This was a piece I wrote about a fiction character named Lliam for a challenge with my girlfriend. In December she gives me a prompt of something to write about every day, and I give her a prompt for something to draw every day. On Dec. 24, the prompt for me was figure skating. The work used to go on after the point where it ends here, but in my editing I found that the following section wasn't necessary. I like the subject matter in this, all though it was pretty challenging to write. I don't like the idea of leaving without discussing it, if I were Lliam I would have told her I was breaking up with her first. But Lliam's not me, he doesn't do things the way I would, and writing that distinction was challenging, but fun.

Mar 9, 2026

Burning Bridges

This is another work about my character Lliam. He was an antagonist in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I DM'd for ten weeks, and he ended up being a sort of fan favorite. I wrote quite a few more little tidbits about him, and this is one that I particularly enjoy. It's an older piece for me, and if I were to redo it today I might put it in first person perspective, now that I have more experience with that. But on the whole I still like it and think it represents what I like to write pretty well.

Mar 2, 2026

December 16th: Day of the Dead

It is paramount that anyone serious about being creative does something for their creative passion every single day. I try as hard as I can to make sure I've written something every day. Eleven months out of the year, I come up with what to write myself. In December however, I have a challenge to do. In 2024, my girlfriend and I decided to give each other a prompt every day of December. I would give her a prompt to draw, she would give me a prompt to write. This pushed me to do things out of my usual, and not just write about the same characters I got stuck on during the rest of the year. This was my prompt for December 16th, and I wrote it journal style about a character I've discussed earlier, Lliam. It turned out alright I think, especially for someone who doesn't usually work with darker themes.

Mar 2, 2026

The Unforgiven

This was a work I made back in 2024. I had written a character named Lliam for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, who was meant to be an antagonist. But of course, there's no better way to make a D&D party love a character than by writing them to be hated. So naturally he became a fan favorite. I enjoyed writing him because he got to be a little darker, and he got to have a fun character voice. This was an exercise in exploring his deeper history. The campaign didn't get to see much of Lliam, so I thought I'd write more about him myself, just to see where he goes. I figured it was always good to have spare characters lying around anyway.