The plan is to finish The Ikessar Falcon (which is sitting at 176.2k words right now) tomorrow. I’m writing this for motivation, because endings are hard. I probably have to do a lot of dissection come 2nd draft time, but that’s more or less technical. The creative part is the hard part. Once I finish The Ikessar …
Or, to be precise, the first wave, because Createspace would only let me print out a few at a time, the damn bastards. *shakes fist* There was a bit of a delay because I’m technically challenged when it comes to images, and in case it wasn’t obvious, I made the ARC covers myself and had …
It’s almost August already. How is it August already? Argh. So I’ve made the announcement for ARCs of The Wolf of Oren-yaro, which I’m getting ready as we speak. They should be making its way to the printer sometime this week to send out to the lovely people who have unwittingly so very graciously volunteered to be …
I‘m going to start doing these blog post series as a way to record my memories somewhere. I always live a little in fear that time will erase my first 13 years; I rely a lot on what’s inside my head and the thought of someday losing it all is a little distressing. I think …
I keep starting these series of blog posts and forgetting about them. Whatever, it’s not like anyone’s keeping track. I’m not going to talk about the boring stuff: you’ve all heard that, I think. Show vs. tell except when you need to tell, etc. I’m going to talk about a pretty big mistake I made maybe …
