Well, I didn’t win the November writing challenge on the writers group, but I don’t mind. The winner had an excellent entry and as I said before, A Contract in Azure and Indigo was twice the size of the second biggest entry. I don’t think the issue was quality, it was just too long for... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: New Fiction Coming Soon!
Sorry for the lack of a post for the last few weeks, but I return heralding new fiction and updates! As I have mentioned before, I am a member of a fantasy writers group based on Reddit. Every month they have a writer’s challenge and members can submit entries based on the writing prompt and... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: Blooming Amid Adversity
November began for me with a weekend of rain, wind and snow after Halloween. It was a good time to huddle at home with a hot cup of Earl Grey and process the events of October. With the downtime, I of course picked up my laptop and started to write. I began with some additional... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 26th 2014: Insert Name and Title Here
I'm still revising, editing, cutting and moving things about this week on The Lost Tomb of Omo! This type of work is hard to quantify in word count and I don’t have the desire or time to setup some methodology to track and relay it. So you’ll just need to trust me when I say,... Continue Reading →
Constructed Nouns in Fantasy: An Orc by Any Other Name Would Smell Just as Bad
Character and place names in fantasy fiction can be a headache. A friend of mine once quipped that the surefire way to write a great fantasy novel was “to have a dark-lord, a wizard and make every fifth word unpronounceable.” Sadly, it was J. R. R. Tolkien who got the ball rolling on this trend,... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 21st 2014: The Lost Tomb of… Omo?
I found this incredibly funny... I had absolutely no idea that the name I had cooked up for my long dead king was also the name of a top-selling detergent in in Australia and New Zealand until a fellow writer on Reddit pointed it out to me today! I know that I have at least... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 19th 2014: Revision, Revision
This update finds me in the depths of some heavy duty revision of The Lost Tomb of Omo. I finally got all the pages back from Jessica, and her input confirmed my fears that the story had lost its pace early in the 3rd chapter. I was able to regain it in the 4th chapter,... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 9th 2014: 26,284 Words and a Boatload of Refinement!
Hello Dear Readers! Last week, the combination of a working holiday weekend and a milestone birthday really impacted my available writing time. I ended up skipping the update to use that time to work on The Lost Tomb of Omo instead. I’m glad I did that, as it at least gave me a feeling of... Continue Reading →
Swords Against Genre! Engineer’s Log, August 19th 2014: 23,028 Words
I now officially have ten chapters written for The Lost Tomb of Omo! I printed the whole work in progress and it came to about forty double spaced and double sided pages, it was too thick to staple as one section! I always print hard-copies for review and revision. Call me old fashioned, but there... Continue Reading →
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