I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about prologues lately. Being on several writers groups has shown me that prologues are “a thing” for fantasy novel writers… But are they “a thing” because they are needed? Or are they “a thing” because “that’s the way the other guys do it and I want to be... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: ‘Twas the night before… EPIC SANTA!
I hope that everyone is enjoying the happy holiday season that is late December! I’m just posting an update and some cool artwork of Epic Santa that I found to keep the blog warm this Wednesday. I’m pretty sure that not too many folks will be checking WordPress on this night before a major family... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: Mid-December Update
Ready for an update? It has been a good week! As you may know, last Friday I posted up the first chapter of A Contract in Azure and Indigo. It has done well, pulling in strong traffic straight through the weekend. I also started getting a number of pings from people wanting the next chapter... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: I’m Possibly a Manimal, but I’m not a Minimalist
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 →
The Creation of a Thing… In a Jar
Last week, I finished an involved reworking of the third and fourth chapters of my work in progress, revising them into a single entity. I start this week doing the same with the old fifth and sixth chapters to create a new chapter four. This has been trudging work when I have had both limited... 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 →
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 →
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