Writing
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This novel got put on the backburner for me because my wife decided she wanted to write it. She got the fire, the inspiration! And she wrote a lot. But the process also wore on her. She’s not a writer and so I think the process just became intimidating. And while she’s not giving up…
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Made some big headway the last few days. Not necessarily big by word count but big by process standards. You see, a part of me was worried that this final volume was going to blow up and become as big as the first three combined. Such things are known to happen to me. Especially since…
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Because I have other projects I’m working on, I haven’t been working as hard or fast on this as my wife would like, but I jumped back into it last night and now again today. We got some interesting feedback from my sister in law, though. While I was aiming for lush, evocative prose, trying…
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I think I’ve figured out an interesting little structure for this novel. Since the series is made up of a lot of bitesized chapters, I’m going to play with that a bit here. It starts with these same kind of short, punchy chapters, but I think I’m going to make the meat of this novel…
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The prologue has changed dramatically since posting it in here, which will someday make for an interesting point of contrast. I dropped a character from the novel, exchanged him with one who will be central to the rest of the book, and also beefed up most of what was there. The original prologue was about…
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What’s this? Am I not already writing a novel? Well, yes, but I want to tell you a bit about this new novel. I suppose you could say this blog is an attempt at transparency, at explicating what it means to be a writer, at what goes into writing books. My wife is not a…
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We’re leaping forward! Had a bit of inspiration last night on how to make this whole thing move and groove and so now I’m running forward on Goblin Fire, the final book in this Arc. It’ll all be included and packaged together in the Broken Katana omnibus that’s heading to Kickstarter next month. My goal…
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This week really got sidetracked with work, but I’m back in the saddle and should be finishing the rewrite/edit of Broken Katana in a few days. Possibly tomorrow! Not a lot is changing with this one. Since it’s the place where the whole world expands and solidifies, in a sense, there’s actually not much to…
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Finished rereading/editing/rewriting Iron Wolf last night and I really do just love the energy of these novels. Starting Broken Katana, it is funny to see some things I just forgot the first time around. Some mismatching of information about wounds and things like that that I need to fix. Though those are so easy to…
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Over the last few days, I’ve been rereading Howl as I prepare to finally write the fourth volume to conclude this arc of the series. Returning to it three years later is interesting for a number of reasons. For one thing, you can feel the energy in this little novel. I wrote it in six…