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 …
Outlines are great stuff. I write them. I write loads of them. The problem I think that many writers encounter, however, is that they think of outlines as “instructions” when they really should be called “brainstorming sessions.” I’ve encountered the thought, for example, that repetitive outlining can help prevent your story from becoming a hot, …
