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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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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…
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I’m late to the beginning of the year by a few weeks, which hopefully is not a sign of things to come! I’ll try to keep this brief, though there are a lot of things coming your way this year in the realm of my Fiction. Back in 2024, I planned on releasing one new…
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A few months ago, I finished the first 100k words of this novel. Since then, I’ve been moving very slowly forward. A lot of this was spent deepening the world, expanding and strengthening what was there, rewriting existing chapters, writing poems and songs to fill out the world still further. And then there was all…
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It’s been a while since I updated the writing diary but things have slowed down. Just harder to find the time to sit down and write, sadly, though I was able to add about 5,000 more words to it last week. The novel has slowed down, not out of lack of interest, but just time.…
