August 2023 Daily Writing: Full Recap

August. Lovely month. Named for a Roman chap.

In case you missed it, you can catch up on the full month of my August 2023 Daily Writing exercise:

August 1 — Goblinbeard & His Crew

(in both the nautical and colloquial sense)
A lighthouse, seen from the beach.
Photo by Gilberto Olimpio on Pexels.com

August 2 — The Goddesses of Realmgard and the People They Look Like

"Pallas Athena" by Rembrandt.
Pallas Athena: Rembrandt.
Image via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

August 3 — “Mighty Lizard

Though it really is more of a scary turkey…
A dinosaur fossil.
Photo by Marcus Lange on Pexels.com

August 4 — She’s from Carog

Coins and a coin purse.
Photo by Hugo Martu00ednez on Pexels.com

August 5 — “I am here either to inflict unspeakable violence. Or I am indeed here to help my friend get her ball back from over your fence.”

Wooden fence posts.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

August 6Pela Strahlend, Statistically Least Likely to be Struck by Lightning

Lightning over a lake.
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Pexels.com

August 7 — 100% All-Natural Mammoth Wool

Treated in the Tears of 100 Maidens Weeping Over the Latest Volume of Happenings at Bridgewaltonshire Priory
A woman holding sweaters.
Photo by Arina Krasnikova on Pexels.com

August 8 — Mr. Johnson, or Johnstone

The interior of a pub.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

August 9 — Egeria Goes Courting

Heart stickers on a white background.
Photo by Ylanite Koppens on Pexels.com

August 10 — The Hunting of the Grand Tarquinian Moth


August 11 — Is a Sausage on a Bun a Sandwich?

(No. No, it isn’t)
Sausages.
Photo by Edwin Jaulani on Pexels.com

August 12 — ‘Well, Gran Hidalgo Gained the Day’

Torn pages of sheet music.
Photo by Ylanite Koppens on Pexels.com

August 13 — ‘What is a tree covered in?’

A close-up of a tree trunk.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

August 14: The Cassandros Mosaic

August 15

“You need more Dragons, bigger Dragons, and whenever there’s no Dragons, your characters should be asking Where’s the Dragons?

A 1800s illustration of a Dragon.
The Mythical Creature Dragon: Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch. Public Domain.

August 16 — Truly, a
cunning stratagem

A forest river.
Photo by Baskin Creative Studios on Pexels.com

August 17 — Kat vs. Enormous Steak

Steaks on a grill.
Photo by Gonzalo Guzman on Pexels.com

August 18 — Little plastic
fighting dudes

A collection of polyhedral dice.
Photo by Zsu00f3fia Fehu00e9r on Pexels.com

August 19 — 5:3 odds of a Magic calamity

A glass pyramid.
Photo by Miriam Espacio on Pexels.com

August 20 — Date night in Porthaven

A hand holding a bouquet of flowers.
Photo by Dominika Roseclay on Pexels.com

August 21 — Arrow-prone

A display of several Ancient Chinese arrowheads.
Original image by Gary Todd. Public Domain under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

August 22 — “Merse hairys”

A row of jars on a self.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

August 23
Ancient temple filled with traps that somehow still work.

Olmec statue heads.
Photo by Roberto Carlos Romu00e1n Don on Pexels.com

August 24 — Be nice to potatoes, or Egeria will know.

Potatoes.
Photo by Polina Tankilevitch on Pexels.com

August 25 — Fireflies

Fireflies light up the forest at night.
Fireflies light up the forest at night Image by tdub303, via istockphoto.com.

August 26 — Numbing potion

A hand reaching up in front of a field of flowers.
Photo by Tan Danh on Pexels.com

August 27 — Quoque levas, fra?

An illustrated reconstruction of the Baths of Caracalla.
A German illustrated reconstruction of the Baths of Caracalla, c. 1891.
Image via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

August 28 — Sally Lyte’s biting phase

Megalodon jaws at the American Museum of Natural History.
Image by Spotty11222. via Wikimedia Commons.
Released into Public Domain by the original author.

August 29 — “She turned into Bats!

A mansion at night.
Photo by Jack Gittoes on Pexels.com

August 30 — Kat brings the bacon – at ramming speed

A large pig, either a boar or a warthog.
Photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexels.com

August 31 — Prima & Vera, loveable urchin scoundrels

A hand holding a glass of water.
Photo by Lisa Fotios on Pexels.com

The rest of these month-long exercises are here.

And a quick reminder that I’ll be posting the first chapter of the next Realmgard story, The Valley of Appraisal later today.

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