While I'm still very early on in my WIP I've been bothered by how to pull of the ending. This is a stand-alone fantasy book. And it isn't. It is also a prequel, a setting of the stage for a 5 book story I plan to write ( Read more... )

The writers blog Magical Words continues to provide outstanding posts about a writing career. Today's post is by David B Coe (davidbcoe) regarding the ever changing preferred manuscript length, here.

Also, I finally took the Malazan plunge and started reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, Book 1 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. I'm only part ( Read more... )

Over at the wonderful writing blog Magical Words they have a couple of recent posts: Why Divide Your Book Into Chapters? and Creating a web presence. Interesting comments and advice. Also, they've released a free version of a new writing tool software called "Character Keeper". It's a small program that lets you create categories and then fill ( 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... )

Author David B. Coe (davidbcoe) posted the following on the Magical Words blog: There is No Right Way...My answer ended up getting a bit long for a response there so I decided to make it into a post here instead ( Read more... )

So, I actually wrote a short story today. Let me clue you in on something ( Read more... )