Oct 14, 2018 | Book five, New releases, Story Concepts, Uncategorized, writing |
Okay, I’m starting to feel the quarterly pressure. The questions are pouring in, asking in polite, dulcet tones, “Oh please, madam, might you tell us where stands the progress of booketh number five?” Progress is being made, people. Daily. Hourly. Minute by minute by...
May 11, 2018 | Book five, fantasy, Plot Development, Story Concepts, Uncategorized, writing |
Dearest readers: I have emerged from the singularity called Alorin to discover that six months have passed since I last updated you on the progress of book five (a fact which more than many of you have recently pointed out). I guess it’s time for an...
Nov 28, 2017 | Book five, Character Development, Organic writing, Plot Development, Story Concepts, writing |
It’s been a while since I’ve updated everyone, and I’m fielding a ton of questions, so I think an update is probably due. Here’s what I can tell you: book five is in the works. I’m about 270 pages in and I’ve written Ean and Tanis’s threads up to the end of part one,...
Oct 25, 2016 | Book four, Character Development, For new writers, Kingdom Blades, Organic writing, World-Building |
Many of you have been asking about my process for creating characters—how I came up with certain characters, and more generally, how I make my characters seem real. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may have read one of my earlier posts on organic...
Sep 4, 2015 | Allegory in fantasy, Artists, Character Development, fantasy, Imagination & Creativity, Inspiration, Kingdom Blades, Writer's Block, writing |
Inspiration is one of those elusive words, like “muse” and “success.” It evades us, confounds and confuses us, bewitches when it visits and devastates upon its departure. It’s that girl glimpsed across the subway terminal, or that place in a dream that you just can’t...
