One of the challenging things about writing The Agartes Epilogues is that it is not written from the point of view of “heroes” in the traditional sense. The point of view characters are regular people with selfish desires, who just get caught up in the plot either because of their actions or through reasons beyond their …
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I thought it might be interesting to talk about how I approach drafts in my novels. Actually, I’m sure it’s not, but I have to schedule some blog posts and this totally counts as my socializing for the day. Like with most writers, I think, my first draft is very slow. I used to write …
I have a civil engineering background, with a focus on municipal engineering. While I give a lot of reasons for why I went down that route, fact is, it’s my desire to expand on my worldbuilding that got me (a person who loathes math) through it all. The Agartes Epilogues is set in a world that is …
So much of writing happens behind the scenes, alone and in silence. It’s too easy to fool ourselves into thinking it’s different these days, what with social media and the Internet. Sometimes, people get caught up with just talking about writing on their groups or forums, as opposed to actually writing. I get it. It’s …
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This novel–I don’t think I’ve ever written a novel that fired up in my head as fast as this one did. I’m already past 40k–hopefully past 50k by the time this scheduled post goes live–with no signs of stopping. I have been told, more times than I care to remember, that Jin-Sayeng used to be …
