writing-tips
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My writing advice to anyone out there is to not do what I’m about to describe. If you’re already deep into a novel, don’t add a new character to the core cast who needs to be written into most of the book. I no longer remember when I realized this character was missing from the
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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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Sometimes I write with my eyes closed. My eyes hurt lately. I’m one prone to fear so I always assume I’m going blind or have brain cancer or something, but the truth is that I think I’m just getting sleep and also not getting enough sleep. So I close my eyes and write for paragraphs
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Writing poetry and songs is devilish work. Takes a long time. A good long time and moves slow. Writing a single verse might take me a whole hour. And it’s a funny kind of hour because I know I’ll likely have to rewrite that verse a handful of times before the novel’s ready. And a
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For nearly a decade, I’ve been increasingly interested in games and the development of games, and so games often now come out in my novels. Today I got to write about an invented game in this new novel. And I just find that fun. But adding onto what I wrote yesterday, this is all a
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Once again, I’m thinking about layers. Not only the layers of a novel, but the layers of history. And when you’re writing a secondary world fantasy novel, these layers of history are important. To a degree. I’ve written about worldbuilding a number of times so I needn’t rehash it all here, but I had to
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I accidentally sent the last update as an email to al subscribers. Sorry about that! Or maybe not. Maybe you’d all appreciate having this in your inbox every day, but it feels excessive to me so I’ll keep them here where you can take a look at your leisure. 10 years ago, I wrote a
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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
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The chapter I wrote tonight was somehow missing from the novel until now, despite being the inciting incident of the original novel. You see, in all this writing, I somehow managed to forget the title of the novel and the whole twilight of the wolves aspect to the novel. And though that was not the
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Sometimes writing a novel is like assembling a puzzle but you’re missing the box that shows you the final image. You start putting pieces together and you think you’re making a lot of progress, storming through this little puzzle, only to discover that there are hundreds of pieces that fell off the table, somehow got
