Tag: wip it
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Afternoon Showers on the Frontal Lobe
I did some brainstorming with Elizabeth Poole today, which was incredibly helpful. I was wavering on 7Sac, as the scope was too large and the story too small. There wasn’t enough steak and potatoes. It was mostly pre-dinner rolls. The story was at risk of falling into too many cliches, specifically the “build a team”…
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A MAP!
I love maps almost as much as I like titles. If only I had the artistic talent necessary to draw maps. But I knew what I wanted to use as a map (also why I changed the name of the acreages). So after a little tweaking in photofiltre, I have a rough map that I…
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Plontsing the Sac
I’ve been on holiday! It is becoming a tradition that each Christmas my wife and I go up into the White Mountains for a few days. Though New Hampshire is a small state, the North country and the South Country are pretty different (as we’re often reminded by those that live in the North). You…
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Telegraphing the Play
Writing a novel is like writing a sports play, it may look familiar, but you don’t want the reader to know the play that’s coming. I know some people read for the experience, but some people (like me) read for the surprise. That’s why I hate spoilers so much. If the surprise is ruined for…
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He Makes the Turn! He Approaches the Finish Line! …OH NO, HE’S TRIPPED!
So all other obligations were set aside for this evening. Yes, I’m supposed to be making left overs so my wife has something to eat for lunch tomorrow, but she’ll understand. This is ART! I’m flying along and get to the last chapter (now considering making it the second to last). I’m about to have…
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The Drawl
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been struggling on voice with JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. It’s not so much struggling as I can’t find it. It’s struggling in that I keep changing my mind, so the narrative text is horribly inconsistent. Here’s where I’ve been flipping. Take a nice classic rural drawl. Change of to a, drop the…
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Grooving
Things on JEHOVAH’S HITLIST slowed down for a couple weeks. It occurred to me that I was fast approaching maximum word count and the pacing was too slow. I also was bored as a writer, which means I’ll probably be bored as a reader. I pushed through what I had and sped things up. That…
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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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The Obnoxiousness of Fantasy Characters
Fantasy characters are dicks. In fiction, in D&D adventures, anywhere “adventurer” is available as a life choice, people are dicks. You see it all the time. Main character meets Douchebag McAsshole and DMcA immediately starts talking down to him. I’m a wizard. I’m a barbarian. I don’t bow before anyone. I don’t show any semblance…