creative-writing
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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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Between mid August and early September, I wrote about 30,000 words of short stories set in two separate Sword & Sorcery worlds of my own creation. I have some other stories planned in both of those worlds as well, and then I’ll turn them into two short story collections, probably next year. Most of those
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I want this novel to be more than great. I want it to be the best novel I’ve ever written. The best novel you’ve ever read. I want this novel to become a monument to those who read it and a touchstone they can carry for all their days. And so though I rushed to
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Last night I passed 80,000 words on this novel. When I began, I thought I was turning a 95,000 word novel into a trilogy. I remember specifically telling people that I was going to turn the original 4,000 words into 80,000 words. It’s been about five weeks since I began this novel and it would
