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 […]
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The 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 […]
Read moreAdding muscle and bone.
I’ve been relatively quiet this month due to intense work, but I’m feeling very good about it. Thorn of Dentonhill has gone from a light-weight 70,000 words to a lean-but-strong […]
Read moreI’ve quite pleased with how the expansion of Thorn of Dentonhill is going. So far I’ve found a lot of good things to mine for new material. I’m also over […]
Read moreI took a brief respite from my add-20k-to-Thorn of Dentonhill project to write a ten-minute play over the weekend for Austin Scriptworks. I’ve been a frequent participant in the 10-Minute […]
Read moreWriting as a business
Last week, in one of my writers’ groups, one of the members railed against the nature of the two-book deal. His complaints were not along the lines of, “I’d rather […]
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