I suspect the rash of 3D modeling posts have left many of you wondering, “Yes, yes, that’s all well and good, but what about the writing?”

Last time I wrote about writing (hm…), I felt much more optimistic about how the science fiction novel - okay, fine, it’s code-named “Prime” - could be redrafted into something more to my liking based on the ( Read more... )

I’m going back and filling in some brackets 1 on the first draft of the New Book. Once I’m done, the first draft goes out to my First Reader for initial feedback. For all intents and purposes, though, the actual work of writing the draft is complete.

I mark 8/2 as the completion date, after which I took a break for a week to recharge the batteries ( Read more... )

With the tremendous response erupting from last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, I wanted to put down some long-form thoughts that I could point people toward in a format where I had some control over spoiler visibility. If you haven’t seen the episode or read the third book of the series, stop reading now.

SPOILERS FOLLOW.

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Now that Ashes is out everywhere, what comes next?

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Ashes is now available in hard copy from CreateSpace!

Update 2012/12/04:

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I just got the notification that Ashes is now available for download on Amazon!

The physical CreateSpace copies are still being processed, but I expect they’ll be available within the next few days.

In related news, I also posted announcements about the book’s release to the two CG forums I visit, Foundation 3D and SciFi-Meshes, as well as tweeted ( Read more... )

T-0 days until release! Today’s R…wait a sec. Maybe I should release the book! Ashes of Alour-Tan is now available for purchase on Smashwords and Amazon’s Kindle store! In the coming week, it will also be available for hardcopy purchase on CreateSpace.

Three years’ work finally complete.

Mirrored from Ryan McClure.

T-1 day until release! Today’s Release Week Tidbit, by request, is the full and complete second chapter!

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T-2 days until release! Today’s Release Week Tidbit is a twofor, accounting for Thanksgiving yesterday. The full and complete first chapter!

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At 18:00 Eastern Time on the 17th of September, 2012, I tweeted that I had finished the third draft of the book.

I started this, the penultimate draft, on February 26, 2012. That makes 205 days elapsed. The draft weighs in at a healthy 80,769 words (according to OpenOffice, anyway), which represents a removal of nearly 15,000 words from the second ( Read more... )