I'm past the 70k mark on rewriting Riding the Vaucoos. The end is in sight. Here's a snippet from Chapter Twelve, where the deviant Zarene likes to make things from the crude tarp left her when she was exiled to Bleagor Rock in the Sea of Despair.

( from Chapter Twelve )

I've had a great week of progress on the fantasy novel I'm rewriting. Over 15k so far this week. I'm past the halfway mark and am at 58,000 words total. Mostly I'm giving the story "wings" by getting rid of a few lead shoes of unneeded exposition. And cutting some extraneous dialogue that doesn't need to be there.

Here's an excerpt from Chapter ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I pulled the last novel I wrote out of mothballs again. It's working title is Dark Caravan, and I never really trunked it, just that I've been focusing on short fiction for a few years. But the novel bug has gripped me again, so I've been rewriting/rekeying it from the beginning. Basically I'm tweaking and cutting at this point. The ( Read more... )

Behind the cut is another snippet from my novel Dark Caravan. Yesterday’s excerpt was a dialogue scene, while this bit is straight narrative. This is from the end of Chapter One, from the pov of Provarius, the court thaumaturgist in the hinterland kingdom of Severon, who perceives himself a magus manqué.

Provarius was almost asleep when he awoke ( Read more... )

Thought I’d post a snippet from my fantasy novel Dark Caravan that I’m rekeying/rewriting. This is from Chapter Three and the young prince, desiring to discover what the princess he’s betrothed to is truly like, has arrived in the guise of the foppish Sir Kip.

With no scheduled dinner for that evening, or none that he'd been invited to, Prince ( Read more... )