Reality Creeping In
Chapter Seven: The Makings of a Monster Okay, I want to be very blunt: today’s chapter has nothing to do with the Occupy movement that is currently going on, and is not meant to in any way comment on...
View ArticleReview: Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
Chapter Eight: “A Name” So, I feel like I’m becoming a bit of a Sanderson expert. I’ve read all of his published work except for his thesis and that new media tie-in piece he did, and I am acquainted...
View ArticleCharacter Decisions
Chapter Nine Now, this post will make a lot more sense if you have read chapter nine. I’ll be vague for those who haven’t read it, but you might actually want to read it before this. Go ahead, I can...
View ArticleEpisodic
Chapter Ten: A Question of Faith First, allow me to briefly mention again that Revenant is for sale on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for ereaders. For $2.99, you get the edited novel plus a bonus...
View ArticleRedrafting
So, I have decided I really want to keep piddling around in the world Tijervyn is set in. This is not so bad a thing as I have four different nations and four different Meisters of the Secret to play...
View ArticleThe pain of a line-edit
There is a certain magic of a well written book that I love. It is that point where you stop reading words on a page, and you instead see the story in your mind’s eye. Kind of like your subconscious...
View ArticleThe Bittersweet Ending
So, I’ve been noticing lately that I have a penchant for loving the bittersweet ending. Not just in my own writing (hey, I’ve had one or two happy endings!), but in what I take in as well. What is it...
View ArticleFinding the Character
I find it funny, how you can think you know your character, but then you get into this corner where you can’t get them to do what you want. You try and you try, and pound your head against them, saying...
View ArticleDec 8, 2014 – The Factory
The factory stood in the center of a slum, although whether the slum was actually part of the factory or simply one of its many products was up for debate. Likely, it was somewhere in between....
View ArticleDec 10, 2014 – Ghost Story
The old man sat down in his arm chair and waved a hand. “Gather around, children. Grandpa wants to tell you a story.” He waited, slowly unwrapping a mint and popping it in his mouth. The wrinkles that...
View ArticleEvolution of Writing
First of all: NOPE, NOT DEAD! I’ve just spent the last two years consumed in local theatre, a disease I am not entirely recovered from yet, but there it is. On the bright side, I have finished a...
View ArticleSad Endings
Listened to the last quarter of Hamilton on the way into work today. As always, hit me right in the feels. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do (at least some of us) enjoy amazingly sad endings? I...
View ArticleOn Earthsea Revisited
So, I muscled through reading A Wizard of Earthsea. About halfway through, the generation-prior writing style stopped sticking in my craw, and honestly, it reminded me a lot of reading the old...
View ArticleYog’s Law
There is a thing in writing called “Yog’s Law”, which is “All money should flow to the author.” In short, this means that a writer shouldn’t pay for any services to polish and perfect their work,...
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