Tag: Reliarach Society
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Naming Characters
Suzanne Johnson posted today on Roni Loren’s writing blog, Fiction Groupie1. Suzanne is discussing picking names for your characters. This is a topic relevant to EVERYONE and a particular challenge to fantasy authors who so often create cultures from the ground up and can’t name their protagonist Joe despite how awesome people named Joe are.…
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Ooo New Name
I don’t spend a lot of time on series names. Sometimes I see people get so consumed with the idea and scope of their trilogy/series that they don’t actually focus on the novel in front of them and actually write the damn thing. They’re too busy thinking theirs will be the next Wheel of Time…
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Wind Sprints
I wrote the first draft of THE TRIAD SOCIETY. I didn’t like it. It wasn’t bad necessarily. It just wasn’t the story I set out to write. The story I had planned was this huge intricate intrigue that spanned the politics of the university, the city, the kingdom! And in the end, a meeting made…
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Ponderings and Plannings
A side note: I dislike “a novel” being included on a book cover unless the book’s title is “a novel.” I think it sounds pretentious. In fact, I think it’s intentionally pretentious to appeal to that category’s audience. I will, at some point, write a story and title it A NOVEL. Fuck your pretension. So,…