Writing/Art Quirks and Process by L Bossi

What Are Your Writing/Art Quirks

Oh, I’ve got some weird ones and they’re all related to my materials. I do all my writing by hand…which has to be on very specific legal pads with Uniball Vision pink pens. All editing is done with Uniball turquoise. When I do my concept drawings for the books, they have to be on imported Japanese post-it notes. There’s a really specific size I like that you can’t find outside of Japan…and 3M discontinued it during covid, so I wound up buying enough to last me for like the next hundred years, haha. I usually do my concept drawings in Uniball purple or green. I’m sure I probably have other weird quirks that I’m not aware of that my friends and family could name.

Your Writing Process

I have a pretty set process when it comes to writing and it goes in 5 distinct stages.

I hand write the first draft of anything.
First draft gets typed into Scrivener.
It gets printed out, thrown into binders and fleshed out by hand.
Back into Scriv and printed back out.
Commence editing by hand.

Rinse and Repeat. This process happens right up until I’m ready to publish. The only difference is that once I move past the Scriv stage and into inDesign compilation, it shifts from a text manuscript to the illustrated manuscript. I’m trained as an editor, so, with help from several other sets of trusted eyeballs, I do all my own editing. I cannot even tell you how many times I read the books before I send them to publication. At one point I probably could have quoted Exordium from memory.

I don’t necessarily have a lock on what I write and when. Sometimes I write straight ahead while other times I might write a chapter that falls at the end of the story long before other chapters that fall at the beginning. There’s not necessarily a rhyme or reason to when certain parts of a book get written.

The Enpirion Project by L Bossi

The Enpirion Project: Exordium (Book 1)

The Print version of this book contains over 200 illustrations and 3 full digital paintings. New 2nd Ed Printing has updated artwork, glossary and map!

Welcome to Aetrelys, home of the Seri.

Enpirion, a gifted soldier of his ancient, energy-wielding race, awakens, alone and friendless, in a new home after a terrible ordeal that has left him with both physical and mental scars. Placed back into active service, he finds himself struggling to overcome what he’s been through and the problems it has left him with. Even while desperately trying to cope with his own deep-seated issues, Piri is drawn into a far-reaching dilemma that, while on the surface seems to be merely a fanatical human sector targeting his race, has much further reaching consequences.

With a threat arising from a vastly different domain governed by a unique, chaotic and conflicting energy source, the situation begins to quickly spiral out of control and Piri finds himself having to confront issues with his culture and loyalties, as well as fighting an internal battle with a newly arising realization of who and what he is as he struggles to save everything that he knows from destruction.

Book Themes:

♥ LGBT+
° Mental Health
° Depression
° Anxiety
° Self-confidence
° Interpersonal Relationships
° Contains mild sexual content

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Goodreads Exordium: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58374103-exordium

The Enpirion Project: Nadir (Book 2)

The Print Version of this book contains over 200 illustrations and 3 full digital paintings.

Two years have passed. Two years since the Mark, since Merythalis changed the shape of the known world.

Life since the “Incident” has been anything but normal. Lasting changes to the physical world have led to a dramatic rise in tensions and turmoil in the system has put the relatively new Seri government on the brink of collapse. What began as an underground movement to revive the Old Empire has gained in strength, threatening a revolution and using both Merythalis and Piri as their rally cry for change.

With Neph on the front lines of the political upheaval, consumed with trying to stabilize the situation, and Piri struggling to handle an increasingly volatile and secluded life in which he has been branded a social pariah, along with serious lingering physical repercussions from Merythalis, their world has begun to fall apart. The relationship strained nearly to breaking and life collapsing around them, the two are thrown into an untenable situation, caught between political ambitions and supernatural forces, all focused on Piri and an ancient order that could destroy everything they know.

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