<p>It&#8217;s been a bit of a week here, so Fergus thought he&#8217;d help me with this week&#8217;s post. Enjoy! Stop back tomorrow for the weekly Maker&#8217;s Day prompt. 🙂 As always, thank you for visiting the blog!</p>

<p>A little late, but here! Next week we&#8217;ll get back to our regular Wednesday schedule. Our prompt for this week is a photo. What does this scenery inspire or evoke for you? If you’d like, please feel free to share thoughts and responses to the prompt in the comments. On Facebook, I’ve started a “Maker’s &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/09/08/makers-day-14/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 14</spa

<p>Today&#8217;s post is a quick &#8220;preview of coming attractions.&#8221; I have two new online classes beginning soon: Writing with Musical Inspiration, which starts next Monday, 9/12, and Introduction to Classical Music, which starts on Monday 10/3. If you&#8217;d like to check out one or both, I&#8217;d love to see you there! 1. Writing with Musical &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/09/06/new-classes-coming-soon/" class="more-link">Continue reading <

<p>The Fourteen Stones crowdfunder hit its target this morning. Thank you so much to everyone who helped us across the line! My book goes to print very soon: it&#8217;s going to be a real book, out in the world. I might be crying a bit right now. 🙂 I know I&#8217;ve said it before, but &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/30/we-made-it/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">We Made It!!</span></a></p>

<p>We&#8217;re coming up on the end of the Fourteen Stones crowdfunder: two days and about six hours to go! We&#8217;ve made it three-quarters of the way to our target. Thank you so much to everyone who has pledged and preordered! If you haven&#8217;t yet, and would like your own copy or e-copy of this rich, &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/29/bonus-post-fourteen-stones-suite/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bonus po

<p>We&#8217;re in the homestretch of the crowdfunder for the launch of my novel Fourteen Stones: only five more days! My publisher has put some cool new rewards up in the PledgeMe campaign, and I&#8217;d like to offer a little &#8220;bonus&#8221; too. Last night, my publisher and I did a live interview, which was so much &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/26/bonus-post-book-talk-and-mood-music/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reade

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s post is a photo. What does this scenery inspire or evoke for you? This photo was taken in northwestern Spain, in the region Asturias. Last week&#8217;s Maker&#8217;s Day prompt &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/24/makers-day-13/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8

<p>Today is the beginning of Fourteen Stones&#8216;s Special Launch Week. My publisher is having a week-long online launch party, and we&#8217;re also going into the last week of our crowdfunder &#8211; which means if you&#8217;d like to get your own copy, now is the perfect time. 🙂 That was my little commercial. The rest of &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/23/launching-and-looking-back/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-te

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today’s prompt is a musical one: my (slightly rough, with apologies 😉 ) recording of &#8220;Asturias,&#8221; by Isaac Albeniz. &#8220;Asturias&#8221; is a movement from the Spanish Suite by Albeniz, who &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/17/makers-day-12/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-t

<p>Today&#8217;s post isn&#8217;t the one I meant to write. I&#8217;d planned just to post a &#8220;musical teaser&#8221; about my novel Fourteen Stones, but yesterday I was looking through some old photos, and got a new idea. I&#8217;ve posted here on the blog about my experiences with mental health challenges, especially anxiety and depression. Both of &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/16/the-writer-back-when/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is a word: What images, sounds, feelings, etc. might this word evoke? In what ways or contexts do you experience surprise? Is the idea of it overall positive, &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/10/makers-day-11/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 1

<p>It&#8217;s getting real! Preorders are available now for my new novel Fourteen Stones, and I&#8217;m thrilled to share the cover. Will Thompson, the artist with my publisher The Patchwork Raven, did an incredible job turning a product of my imagination into a beautiful design. The building in this picture is a Circle House. Circle Houses &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/09/its-a-real-book/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reade

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is a musical one: Prelude in D Minor, from Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier, by J.S. Bach. What does it inspire for you? If you’d like, please &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/03/makers-day-10/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 10</span></a><

<p>Our crowdfunder for Fourteen Stones&#8217;s launch is coming very soon! I&#8217;m so excited to share this book with you. Today, as we gear up for the start of the crowdfunder, I thought I&#8217;d share a little &#8220;virtual tour&#8221; of the place where my novel took shape. I&#8217;m not the greatest housekeeper (in fact, if there&#8217;s &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/02/the-writing-cave/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today’s prompt, like last week&#8217;s, is a single word: This word could take you in many directions: music-related, thinking about doors and locks, thinking about solutions to puzzles or codes&#8230;etc. &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/27/makers-day-9/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-

<p>Last week on the blog, I posted a teaser reading from the beginning of my novel Fourteen Stones. I&#8217;ve got another teaser today, this one introducing my favorite character from the book. Fourteen Stones follows the stories of four major characters. Three of them were pretty easy to write, especially the &#8220;bonus one&#8221; who got &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/26/playing-favorites/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-r

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is a single word: You&#8217;re invited to take this word in any direction that inspires you. What thoughts/images/story/etc. might it evoke for you? If you’d like, please feel &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/20/makers-day-8/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Mak

<p>My novel Fourteen Stones is shaping up into a real book. 🙂 We&#8217;re working on the proofs, and yesterday I got my first look at the official maps of my fictional world. Four years ago, I drew sketches &#8211; I&#8217;m no visual artist &#8211; to help me keep the places straight in my head and &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/19/fourteen-stones-sneak-preview/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Fourteen Stones sne

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is explained in the video. 🙂 Short version: you&#8217;re invited to experiment with using magic, or something surreal that breaks the usual &#8220;rules&#8221; of the world, in the &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/13/makers-day-7/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-tex

<p>In a couple of weeks, the blog will be shifting gears to talk a bit more about Fourteen Stones and preparation for launch. I&#8217;m so excited to share more about my long-beloved, first-ever fantasy project, which pretty much changed the course of my writing. (And I still can&#8217;t quite believe it&#8217;s going to be a &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/12/line-magic-reflections/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">