I've learned when writing I enjoy my words more when I don't treat any of my characters as the Antagonist. I think the story flows better when each POV is written as though they are who the story is about ( Read more... )

It seems I've been working on the opening chapters of my WIP forever. Probably because I have. This is not, however, due to me needing to have the opening perfect before being able to continue onwards. Rather, the story itself has changed quite a bit and there are key events in this opening that need to be changed ( Read more... )

So this morning I had one of those moments where you just want to shout in elation. Being as I was at work I kept the expressions of joy internal.

I'm back in the thinking about the story before returning to actually writing it phase. I don't just dive right back into a particular WIP. I do a read through and then let it gestate in the brain ( Read more... )

So I've recently tried posting here from my Android phone only to discover, upon finally venturing back here via laptop, that the posts never appeared. Hmmm...will have to play around with that to figure out why ( Read more... )

So, as I've let my mind mull over and play around with the decision to show some of the naval battles I've been wondering just who is actually in charge of the protagonists very small fleet. And then, a character who I've never really known what to do with stepped up and decided that she was the commander of the fleet ( Read more... )

I'm a bit behind where I wanted to be with my WIP, but that's okay. I made the POV switch to introduce my next POV character. I wrote the opening paragraph then ground to a halt. I realized that her introduction would be very tricky as she possesses a particular ability that will really dominate her POV narrative. Added to this was the ( Read more... )

It's fascinating how discovering the answer to a simple question: Who is Character V's mother? can suddenly add a whole new layer to a main character's storyline ( Read more... )

As I was getting ready for work this morning my mind turned to my WIP, as it usually does, for a quick run-through before I put those thoughts away for my day job (computers and networks ( Read more... )

So, I'm dragging the finale of my back story out sentence by sentence, all the while it's kicking and screaming that it's not good enough, that I should trash the last 10,000 words I've written and redo them ( Read more... )

So, the NaNo project is almost at an end. All I need to do is write the finale. Interestingly, as the finale stares me in the face I keep coming back to the suspicion I should have made another one of the characters a POV character ( Read more... )