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The Novel Frontier Begins

Josh Robert Nay

A new short story, more content, more pages … it has been a very fruitful and busy couple of days. Accomplishments have been made with little or no setbacks, and I could not have been happier with the results … The Wild Wild Mind Anyone who had ever read my work knows I’m more of a psychological writer. Most of my writing, while it may not always be extremely deep, has much to do with the characters in their mind than their actions. I try to put a little mixture of both in so as not to make the stories

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The Pieces of a Fantasy

Josh Robert Nay

Update: This fantasy story now has a title: Wynx. It is now listed in the Books section on the website with a release date of To Be Determined! A wizard gazes into the darkness of a place he’s never been before, yet curiously remembers. Around him, pieces of a world possessed by evil but fighting a losing battle of restoral seem to reach out to him, begging him for help. Flash! Suddenly he finds himself back in his workshop, a petty excuse for one if there ever could be. He is confused. What just happened? Where was he just now.

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Creating a New World

Josh Robert Nay

Obviously, a lot of thought goes into creating a new world and characters to inhabit it. First, you have to develop the world, the basis of its existence, its history, its map layout … every aspect you can to make the world come to life not only in your eyes, but in the eyes of those who read your work. For example, I have spent the last four years developing my upcoming tentatively-titled Wizards and Kings series. I have developed multiple aspects, including some of its ancient history. I probably won’t use a great deal of it, and some of

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Of Unicorns and Sunsets

Josh Robert Nay

A real quick announcement: A new fantasy poem is now viewable on Yahoo. I wrote the poem while remembering a sunset I saw as a child. I remembered how the dry tree in the front yard resembled a unicorn staring into the sun, and it became the symbolism within the poem. Check out the Poetry page on Josh Robert Nay Online for a link to the poem. Enjoy! 🙂