Welcome to Opal Kaharis. A world full of possibilities and missed deadlines. My name is Nick. I’m a 30-something year old English teacher who dreams of spending his days writing novels instead of teaching teenagers (although teaching teenagers can be fun too). During the pandemic I decided to become much more proactive about my writing hobby, which I had been neglecting for a while, primarily due to mental health issues. So instead of complaining about not finding the time to write I started setting specific goals for myself which included uploading regular blog posts. That’s how this blog came to be. I pride myself on my stories, which get updated regularly, but I also talk about anime, manga, life, mental health, teaching and anything else that I might be interested in. It’s really an anything goes kind of scenario where I set up a schedule and then don’t keep to it. Speaking of schedules, here is roughly what you can expect to find here.
Mondays:
Mondays are more or less reserved for extra things. Every first Monday of the month I try to update a new chapter to my fantasy series The Necromancer’s Daughter. That has more hiatuses than I would like if I’m perfectly honest with you, but I do my best. Every other Monday you can find whatever is on my mind, which includes anime reviews, deep dives and just regular old blog posts about things that interest me or are weighing on my mind.
Wednesdays:
Right now, Wednesdays are reserved for One Piece volumes. I’m going through the entire series once more to talk about each volume. It’s more or less a recap for each volume so read along with me if you’re interested. Whenever an arc touches on a particularly interesting social or political topic I will discuss this in more detail afterwards. Once I run out of volumes – which is taking quite a while, but it’s still inevitable – I might pick out a new series to do the same thing for.
Fridays:
And Fridays are the reason why most of you are here. I hope so, at least, since it’s my favorite project on this website. Every November I aim to write a draft of 50.000 words for NaNoWriMo of a new volume of my series The Hesitant Hero. The subsequent year I will then upload weekly edited chapters until the entire volume is posted. These are free to read for anyone and I think they’re quite fun, so please give them a read. This is the story I hope to turn into actual novels at some point, although they will differ quite a bit from the draft you’ll read on here. The core story won’t change much, but there are many things I can still improve upon so keep that in mind when you read this version. Be harsh, but not too harsh :). For a summary of the story, check out the ‘stories’ tab in the menu. Happy reading!
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