Tag: wip it
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Testing Your Mettle
One WIP at a time. There’s a reason I have that rule, a very important reason. When you’re writing your novel and things get hard, your imagination is your worst enemy. When people talk about ideas of how to get inspired, they’re ignoring a greater problem: only writing when you’re inspired. You need to be…
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I’d like a #3, super sized.
LurkerWithout reads a billion books a month. This is why I value his feedback as a beta reader. He reads a book a day, so I consider him a measure of the purchasing public. He’s the target audience I’m aiming for, people who like to read fantasy. I have no delusions of being the author…
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Beware the AYRTD Bird and Invoking Rule 2a
This has been a reading week. I finished JULIET1. I’m almost half-way through CRYOBURN. I’ve finished the first disc of ARABIAN NIGHTS. I keep taking my Eee PC to work because I feel the need to write, but when I think of what to write next, it’s not clicking. I know what I need to…
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NaNoing My Problem
When I finish revising a novel, I feel like the train from the climax of Back to the Future 3. Doc Brown threw in those special logs and now I’m going twice as fast as a normal train. Reall, that works for when I finish the novel the first time and when I revise it…
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The Satisfaction of Success
I am a success! What? Did I get an agent? No. Did I get an offer of publication from a major publishing house? No. Did I get a date with Rosario Dawson? No. Yet I am still a success. I have not accomplished any of the above professional goals (and if I never accomplish that…
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The Importance of a Name
THE TRIAD SOCIETY is a pre-steam punk fantasy. What does that mean? That means steam technology is in its early advances. I don’t have airships or the like. I have steam-infused water and other similar “inventions!” Reliarach is the first kingdom on the Crescent Sea to develop such technology, the other six kingdoms being in…
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A Ponderance: How to Steal from the Greeks
You may have noticed Nate Wilson appearing here and there in the comments section. He’s a good bean. He’s a bean you’d use in your award-winning chili. He has his own blog. If you have not read it, you should. The footnotes alone make it worthwhile. Recently, he posted an explanation of why the blog…