It feels kind of blasphemous calling it a “vacation” considering I don’t really earn any serious money at the moment, but on one hand, when I’m writing, I do end up working well over 12 hours each day, so I live for these scheduled breaks. There’s a lot of stuff that needs to get done …
A quick excerpt from the first chapter of the book I’m working on. I feel like if I don’t announce the title soon, I’m going to get stuck with this one. You don’t argue with a name like “Lucky” if you were lucky to be alive. Because all things considering, he shouldn’t have been when …
The manuscript I’ve been calling “Happy Farm Adventures” is finally complete. I’ll be working on the second draft for the rest of the month, and hopefully bring it up to a point where I feel comfortable dropping the name and blurb before December. It feels weird to be sitting on the fourth manuscript I’ve completed …
I hit 72k on “Happy Farm Adventures” yesterday, having been writing at a steady 4k or so a day the last two weeks. It’s a great reflection of my mental state as the darkness sets in and my regular old anxieties begin to wrestle with Seasonal Affective Disorder…a perpetual up and down that I try …
My stories are normally set in a world that features both familiar fantasy settings (the Kag areas) and the less-than usual (a lot of Asian-inspired places, which includes the Gorent Islands, Gaspar, Jin-Sayeng, The Empire of Ziri-nar-Orxiaro), and a lot of fusion (Dageis). I’ve said before that part of the reason I refused to swap …
