One of the things I learned over the last couple of years is that editing, like writing, can be a mysterious process for some people. Lots talk about it, but plenty don’t seem to have any clue what it entails. I’ve gotten the sense from some that they think that editing is like a fresh …
Yesterday, my writing circle had a nice discussion about style, where we tore apart some of my older writing samples and I explained what I did, and didn’t do, in those days. I mentioned this in my post yesterday, about how there is an element of cringe when I read those samples even though in …
Look! More metaphors! I’m embarking on edits for The Ikessar Falcon after receiving feedback from my last beta-reader, and it’s been a world of hurt. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate brutal feedback from a few select people. I wouldn’t have gotten this far if I didn’t embrace the idea of tearing my work apart and then …
Early this year, I wrote a short story which was a better way for me to express what I’ve felt over the last year–the last eighteen months, really–than screaming at people. I published the rest of my The Agartes Epilogues trilogy in spring, a move which has caused a lot of confusion (as if the series …
This is a scheduled blog post. I am hoping by the time it publishes itself, I would have finished the first draft of my…I’ve lost count of the actual number, but what will be the seventh book I’ve completed with the intention of publishing (but because of weird scheduling issues will be the sixth out). …
