Determination, Deliberation, and Dragons

Listen to Mel's Story Fairy Child here! After you listen to her story, check out what our readers thought about it in the next episode. We'll be offering her some insights into what she wrote well, a…

Star Wars. It's a wide and fascinating galaxy filled with all sorts of landscapes and people, and yet time and time again we seem to return to desert planets that seem to resemble this thing called "…

Join us for our fourth creative writing workshop of season 2! We'll be taking a look at Sammy's story, Hostage Negotiator from Another World. As per usual, Sammy tells us a little bit about his story…

Listen to Sammy's Story Hostage Negotiator from Another World here! After you listen to his story, check out what our readers thought about it in the next episode. We'll be offering him some insights…

In this episode, Peter interviewed Maddy Glenn, author and owner of the self-publishing company, Softwood Publishing. They talked about the pros and cons of traditional publishing vs self-publishing,…

Join us for our third creative writing workshop of season 2! We'll be taking a look at Andy's story, The Legend of Big Belly. As per usual, Andy tells us a little bit about his story, then our reader…

Listen to Andy's Story "The Legend of Big Belly" here! After you listen to his story, check out what our readers thought about it in the next episode. We'll be offering him some insights into what he…

We sat down and chatted with Author Owen King, one of Peter's creative writing professors at Vassar College. We talked about the writing process and how to overcome some obstacles when it comes to fi…

Join us for our second creative writing workshop of season 2! We'll be taking a look at Kaitlyn's story, Dragon Song. As per usual, Kaitlyn tells us a little bit about her story, then our readers sha…

Listen to Kaitlyn's Story "Dragon Song" here! After you listen to her story, check out what our readers thought about it in the next episode. We'll be offering her some insights into what she wrote w…

We had the pleasure of interviewing author Kalynn Applewhite about her upcoming book, Awakening Anne. Izzy and Peter had the pleasure of reading the first chapter of the book, and they ask Kalynn abo…

Our first workshop of Season 2 features a story submitted by a familiar voice on the podcast, Julie Wilson! She tells us a little about her story, We Were Once Once, and then all our other writers of…

Listen to Julie's Story "We Were Once Once" here! After you listen to her story, check out what our readers thought about it in the next episode. We'll be offering her some insights into what she wro…

Welcome to season 2 of Determination, Deliberation, and Dragons! For this season, we will primarily be workshopping stories written by a few of our friends. Each month, one of our writers will share …

Now that we've workshopped each of the nine shorter stories that make up the first Pana book, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at the book as a whole. In this workshop, we welcome ba…

Hello! We just wanted to stop on by and give you a quick update about season 1 of the podcast. We'll be releasing our final episode of the season shortly, and then we'll take a short break as we work…

You can listen to the audiobook of Peter's ninth and final short story in the Pana and Waveskimmer series (book 1), "Sickness," here!

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The end is here! Not the end, but the end of what will hopefully be the first book in the Pana cycle (Peter is currently working on book 2). Pana finally reaches one of the world devastating weapons …

Darth Maul was a fan favorite when he appeared in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Even after his apparent death, he returned to life in the animated show, Star Wars the Clone Wars, only to k…

Here on Determination, Deliberation, and Dragons, we love chatting about Disney's, The Owl House. We just watched the first episode of season 3, and wanted to share our thoughts with you. Is Belos or…