Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 17 1 Oct 202020 Dec 2021 SEPTEMBER STATS Days Writing: 18 New Words: 3145 New Chapters: 1 Total Word-count: 56,412 Total Chapters: 15.75 Well 3,000 words-per-month definitely seems to be my pattern of late! Actually, if…
Short Stories The Favored Son: Part Five 1 Oct 202020 Dec 2021 Reis and Tharol walked to the end of the central dais and to the other side of a wide column, which nearly shut them out of view of the other…
Lessons The One, True Story 28 Sep 20206 Nov 2024 To Kill a Watchman) Less than one year before her death, Harper Lee's novel Go Set a Watchman was published to considerable controversy. First and foremost was the concern that…
Short Stories The Favored Son: Part Four 24 Sep 202020 Dec 2021 As Master Foraou rushed through the air he pulled the sword back and plunged it clear through the heart of Talo. The boy slumped backwards without a cry. The youth…
Lessons Don’t Look at Me, This Wasn’t My Idea! 21 Sep 202020 Dec 2021 A Misstep) Sometimes a story doesn't go the way that you expected. Ideas that seemed so solid become mush when you try to write them out, or the pacing that…
Short Stories The Favored Son: Part Three 17 Sep 202020 Dec 2021 The Second Recitation of Master Eidoron Thus from that Void sprang Life and Invasion. Or using the terms of the Ancient Prophet: Creation and Destruction. And in them began the…
Lessons I Know What You’re Thinking 14 Sep 202019 Dec 2021 Mind-Reading) In Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the nameless narrator is silently deliberating the plight of an unsuccessful local actor. Just as he comes to this…
Short Stories The Favored Son: Part Two 10 Sep 202020 Dec 2021 "What do you mean?" Inol raised an eyebrow. Reis clasped his hands and paced back and forth, as if giving a lecture. "There is a new era coming. We all…
Lessons A Small Appetizer 7 Sep 202019 Dec 2021 A Story Dragging Its Feet) In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back we watch as the core heroes are divided into two groups, and we follow each one's different arc…
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