The third part of the twelve part outline, following Establishment and Incitement, is Challenge. I define this section as “minor antagonists are put into play”. The protagonists aren’t going to […]
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Some inspirational pic-links
Sometimes I just like to surf online artwork to inspire ideas. I’m not saying these WILL inspire ideas I’ll use… but I definitely like them. Starships approaching planet. Space Opera […]
Read moreInfested with Brain Buzzes
My brain is always buzzing with ideas. Else I wouldn’t be a writer, and there wouldn’t be much point to this whole thing, would there? But sometimes, even when I […]
Read moreWrting Environments
The environment I write in is a crucial factor to how effective any given writing session can be. For one, I do better when in a public place, like a […]
Read moreOutlines and the Graveyard
I think it goes without saying that every writer has a graveyard; the place where dead projects are left to molder. The ecologist in me believes the ideas found in […]
Read moreThe Twelve Part Outline, Part II
This series on the structure of my Twelve Part Outline will not, in all likelihood, track with my writing progress on Maradaine Constabulary, if for no other reason than the […]
Read moreThe Twelve Part Outline, Part I
I’ve reached a word count of 5554 with Maradaine Constabulary: The Mage Murders, which also puts me quite cleanly at the end of the first part of my twelve-part outline […]
Read moreThe short and the long game
I make no bones about the fact that my four different Heroes of Maradaine series are all, in fact, series, and therefore the plan is to write several books for […]
Read moreI’ve decided that the next project I’m pushing forward with is Maradaine Constabulary, which is the one, when I first conceived of the four “Heroes of Maradaine” series, that I […]
Read moreSo, now that the manuscript for Thorn of Dentonhill is at fighting weight, and off to the prospective agent, so it’s time to rev up the gears for the next […]
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