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Wait, this book isn't about me?
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... ) -
Eureka! or when an idea takes about three decades to claw to the surface...
Today was a good day. One of those rare epiphany moments that can suddenly take a ten thousand year timeline and tweak something that I first thought of as a kid, something that's always been there in a small way...and blow everything wide open. So much to think through and plot into the ten thousand year timeline ( Read more... ) -
writing
When I write a draft of a novel I start at the beginning and write the book in sequential order straight through to the end. I don't hop around different sections of the story and try and piece them together later ( Read more... ) -
2012 - Year In Review..and a peek into 2013
-Didn't read enough ( Read more... ) -
The unseen aspect of a character...or just how many bodies has Aragorn buried out in the woods?
I've been thinking quite a bit lately about character backstory and how it can help shape how the writer presents a character and how the reader feeds off that. In particular I've been thinking about Aragorm from the Lord of the Rings. Aragorn remains one of my absolute favorite Fantasy characters. He's a person who ends up with a very different ( Read more... ) -
Writing in 2012
I realize I need to get back to making time for worldbuilding. As I continue work on my current WIP I notice holes in my worldbuilding that need plugging ( Read more... ) -
An interesting challenge
As I continue writing I realize I need to tell the next scene from the viewpoint of a particular knight. I created this character so many years ago while sitting in math class back in junior high school. And in all of those years I've only known him through the eyes of his son (who is one of the main viewpoint characters in the story I'm working ( Read more... ) -
Next time stay dead...
Note to self: Next time I kill a character in the opening chapter that character shall remain dead. Having to eliminate a death scene for a secondary character and weave him back into the entire opening movement of a novel is quite an undertaking. It isn't just throwing mentions of him into chapters. He may be secondary but he is important to ( Read more... ) -
Planning the Middle...
While I am still working through the opening, which requires much more of an extensive rewrite now that a character who died in the opening chapter doesn't die, my mind is already reaching ahead to the Middle of the Book. In-between the actually writing, which is going slowly weaving a character into scenes he originally wasn't in, plot thoughts ( Read more... )