Welcome to my new blog!

    Hi everyone! Welcome to my weird writing corner! I’m Zach and I made this blog as a way to share my writing and my art with an audience, because I hope to one day make them a full time career instead of just a weekend hobby. I love to write fantasy and weird poetry, inspired greatly by authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, JRR Tolkien, HP Lovecraft, Robert E Howard, John Milton, and many others. I also am a landscape artist who dabbles in digital art as well as pen and ink. I'm very excited to start this new journey, so please join me on this fun experience!

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