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... )

So, I've read through the WIP. The most recent writing done to it seems to stand out as better than the earlier writing. That's a good sign. By no means is there anything worth showing to a beta reader yet, but that I can see some improvement is good ( Read more... )

So, I'm at work on my WIP, reworking the 50,000 words I wrote last year. I'm still working on the opening chapter. I had re-written a new opening, keeping the same setting but changing it up to have the POV character an active participant in the opening scene rather than just an observer ( Read more... )

So, after playing over in my mind for a while about what I need to do with the existing 50,000 words of my WIP, I got to work on writing sort of a bridge section between my new opening and the remainder of the chapter ( Read more... )

I am finally finished with this very rough first draft of my back story that I started back in November as my first NaNoWriMo project ( Read more... )

So, I'm on the big finale. And somehow, not only do I have all of the major players in the same town in the midst of a major three-kingdom battle, they've all managed to end up in the same room together. I've got a knife-fight, and what is essentially a mage fight (I don't use the term mage but that's close enough for this posting), the discovery ( 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... )

We moved back up north after living down in the deep south for about 5 years. I've been lucky in that I've managed to be able to have a room set aside for my office. In my day job I'm a Network Admin - which means I can be called upon to work at any time -- so the office juggles as a place where I can remote into work, as well as study up on new ( Read more... )