Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I finally received the feedback from my second alpha-reader on The Unicorn Hunters and Tears of the Joyous Mare. She’s been going through a rough patch the past few weeks, so it’s entirely forgivable and things are looking up for... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: June 1st, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! This past week has been a doozy. My writing took a backseat to my seventeen-year-old cat when he got a nasty eye infection. I was very upset with the possibility that we might have to put him down. However, the... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: May 25th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I released the third and final part of The Old Man of the Elder Trees this weekend, and the ending was warmly received and enjoyed. This gave me such a good feeling that I was a lot like the little... Continue Reading →
Writing Fantasy: My Writing Rituals and Habits
jbull85 asked: …How do you settle into writing? Do you listen to music or something? Okay, before I even start I will say that these questions and the answers I will give are by their very nature subjective. What works for me will not work for everyone. Probably not even for most everyone, because writing... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: May 18th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Another week of getting stuff done! I finished and named my “in-between” short story I was using as a warm-up before starting work on The Orgcrist. I’m calling it Tears of the Joyous Mare, and it ended up being almost... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: May 11th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I received my first alpha-reader feedback on The Unicorn Hunters and it was positive… Looks like I hit my emotional targets in the piece. :-) Proofreading has left me with cleanup and editing to do before I send it off... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: May 4th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I finally feel like I’m getting the hang of this full-time writing thing! Sticking to the revised writing schedule I started last week, I exceeded my daily goal of a thousand words of fiction each day… often by a third... Continue Reading →
Writing Fantasy: Where I Fall on the Mohs Scale of Magical Hardness
Some fantasy authors feel the need to go into “the rules” of the magic they write about. It’s limits, the can and can’t do’s of it, whatever. I particularly see a great deal of that in fantasy fiction written in the last few decades and suspect it comes from a strong Dungeons & Dragons, role-playing... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: April 27th, 2016
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Last week started tough. My writing progress was slow, and I was just beginning to get the hang of my wife working a late second-shift that really upended how I focus and write. However, because she’s trying to recover from... Continue Reading →
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