Thoughts on the process of writing epic fantasy and worldbuilding.
I just finished watching the movie Warcraft for the first time. I’m an avid fan of the series–played the RTS games thoroughly as a young child and teenager, and then later World of Warcraft (as a male hunter orc named Uran, and then later again as a male shaman orc called Icarus. Uhhh, I may have …
When people complain about the writing in fantasy–even if it’s a legitimate complaint–but they seem to be relatively clueless at the hellfire-and-lightning storm-plagued mountain ridge the fantasy writer had to go through to even finish their book–I feel like throwing things. It’s not that readers aren’t allowed to complain about things. They’re allowed to–it’s your …
I wrote Jaeth’s Eye when I was 17 years old. It wasn’t called Jaeth’s Eye back then. It was called The Lion’s Tracks. The first manuscript was finished at 150,000 or 160,000 words, I believe. I wrote it in the span of 6 months during a long vacation in the Philippines. This was back in the days when …
Read more “The Courage to Start Again — Confessions of an Epic Fantasy Writer”
A while back, I posted about how I don’t like “keeping to word counts” because it messes with the quality of my writing. I feel like I should go back and be clear about one thing: I’m talking about forcing myself to write only for the sake of meeting a word count. I do keep to …
Read more “How I Finish Manuscripts–Life as an Epic Fantasy Writer”
The eternal dilemma of every writer is the nagging self-doubt in the back of your mind: “What if what I have to say has no value to anyone? What if I go down this road and it’s all for nothing?” But for a lot of us, it isn’t a choice now, is it? I’ve tried …
