{"id":71,"date":"2026-02-07T22:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:44:14","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/?page_id=71","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to write dark, folkloric tales and epic-ish fantasy. You&#8217;ll find no big battles in my stories \u2013 my characters skirt the sidelines, hide in the shadows, mess up <em>a lot<\/em>. They\u2019re all just doing their best (or sometimes their worst) in a shitty world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short stories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill-element\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20260403_163702-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A stream tumbling between grassy banks, part-shaded by gorse bushes, under a blue sky with cotton wool clouds\" class=\"wp-image-267 size-full\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20260403_163702-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20260403_163702-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20260403_163702-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20260403_163702-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_20260403_163702-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>I have about thirty of these bad boys in various stages of drafting. But you can listen to (or read) my very first(!) short story publication on the Lesbian Historic Motif podcast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d41de975de0283da3a021ff40cbd6af9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpennia.com\/blog\/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-334-fiction-double-header-down-tumbling-stream-e-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast episode 334<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s <em>almost<\/em> a historical lesbian love story\u2026 I just can&#8217;t resist a bit of the weird&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And my second short story publication is coming soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Novels<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 24%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>My current work-in-progress follows a sad disaster of a mage running from a toxic ex through a flooded world of ruins and tattered magic.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_153558-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a flat grey sea under a cloudy grey sky\" class=\"wp-image-208 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_153558-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_153558-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_153558-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_153558-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_153558-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_153558-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:24% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_100205-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A wet beach studded with fragments of black stone. The sea is flat and blue-grey under a cloudy grey sky\" class=\"wp-image-209 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_100205-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_100205-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_100205-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_100205-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_100205-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/echallewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20250414_100205-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>I&#8217;m also rewriting a fun* novel about a very angry repressed lesbian assassin who has a dangerous obsession with the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(*for a given definition thereof)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/?page_id=67\">Where to find me<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing I like to write dark, folkloric tales and epic-ish fantasy. You&#8217;ll find no big battles in my stories \u2013 my characters skirt the sidelines, hide in the shadows, mess up a lot. They\u2019re all just doing their best (or sometimes their worst) in a shitty world. Short stories I have about thirty of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"blank","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/268"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echallewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}