Meet the Turrim Cast: Wynn

Wynn Drexel: artificineer

Ahh, my dear, sweet, problem child.

Wynn is the first of my characters ever to keep secrets from me. He originally showed up as Grayden’s prankster-best-friend, in and out of scrapes, and generally causing most people around him a moderate level of annoyance.

But it never felt right. He didn’t really fit in that role as I hammered out book 1, but I didn’t know what else to do with him. Wynn completely refused to tell me anything more about himself as I wrote that first book.

In book 2, he informed me that he was smarter than I had originally thought. But not just smart… like… scary brilliant. (And can we just acknowledge how overwhelming that particular nugget of info was? Now I… a not at all scary brilliant individual… have to write someone who is?!)

Turrim ArchiveJenelle SchmidtMarch 9, 2023 Comments

Meet the Turrim Cast: Grayden

Although you meet the rest of the pirate crew before you meet Grayden in The Orb and the Airship, Grayden is a more main character than they are, and so I’m introducing him here because he comes first in terms of importance.

Grayden Ormond lives on his family’s large orchard on the outskirts of Dalsea. (Yes, the same town that Dalmir’s tower is located near). He’s a bit of a prankster with a fantastic sense of humor (as you can clearly see in his portrait above - truly, Chloe Grace captured him so perfectly), but he also has a serious and studious side.

Self-assured, confident, and capable, Grayden is fairly unrufflable. He likes structure, but he’s also good at rolling with the punches.

Turrim ArchiveJenelle SchmidtMarch 6, 2023 Comments

January/February Ishness 2023

Yes, I know I rebranded these posts “Adventures and Episodes” a while back. But I’ve been feeling nostalgic lately, and kind of missing the “good old days” of blogging. There was a community of us back there a few years ago, and while it’s gotten a little swallowed up by the other varieties of social media and gnat-like attention spans… I still enjoy the blogosphere. And I miss what it used to be.

And among those things I miss are the tags and collaborative sort of nature of posts. Like “Ishness.”

So here I am, throwing back a few years, climbing up into the attic, and rubbing the dust off of something that I always loved. And maybe it’s still shiny and precious under there, like so many things tend to be. I hope so.

And I’m taking this moment to go back to good, old-fashioned blogging.

Adventures and Episodes, IshnessJenelle SchmidtMarch 1, 2023 Comments