My mother pointed me towards a Newsweek article essentially promoting self-publishing as the viable model of the future to circumvent “traditional publishing” and get your work straight to the people. […]
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Worldbuilding and organic writing
One of my biggest problems is not the worldbuilding, but then taking that worldbuilding and weaving that into a story organically. The old draft of Crown of Druthal was filled with […]
Read moreI honestly think the hardest part of any novel is the part from 20,000 to 40,000 words. I’ve often said that novel-writing is like running a marathon. The latter is […]
Read moreAn empty space
I wish I had a camera with me, as I’m in my local bookstore right now. Right now, as I walked through the sci-fi/fantasy section, I noticed an empty space […]
Read moreReader question answered, #2
In response to yesterday’s post, I was asked the following: I’m curious – how do you decide which project to focus on at a time? Do you set yourself a […]
Read moreA few things on my plate
I want to get the draft of Maradaine Constabulary done by May 15th. I have a short story for an anthology I’ve been invited to contribute to due by June […]
Read moreSome 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 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 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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