Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 7 1 Dec 201920 Nov 2021 NOVEMBER STATS Days Writing: 17 New Words: 6,577 New Chapters: 2 Total Word-count: 23,554 Total Chapters: 7 This was my first full month of new draft-writing material, and it felt…
Short Stories The Toymaker: Part Five 28 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 They did get a look at the building, and what they saw was not quite as disheartening as the knight had feared. There was a central lobby to the building,…
Lessons It’s a Long Way Home 25 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 Empty Halls) They say you can't go home again. In my case that is most definitely true because, you see, the new owners blew it up! True story. One Sunday…
Short Stories The Toymaker: Part Four 21 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 "So how can we find the dancer now?" the drummer asked as soon as the knight's attention had returned to the present. "We'll have to ask around I suppose. You've…
Lessons Journeys and Detours 18 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 The Journeyman's Questions) When we are children, we tend to set our hopes and dreams on moments that are in the immediate future. We long for a birthday that is…
Short Stories The Toymaker: Part Three 14 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 But what a life! Much to the drummer's surprise, he did manage to prolong it minute-by-minute. It seemed that he had broken a spell by having successfully hurled that lump…
Lessons Stop, You Fool! 11 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 In a previous post I discussed the matter of giving the reader and the main character different amounts of information. In most stories the reader and main character share the…
Short Stories The Toymaker: Part Two 7 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 But a terrible fear was starting to rise inside of the drummer. What if he couldn't catch up? What if he couldn't find her? Did such questions even matter? He…
Lessons Judge Me, and Quickly 4 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 We have a common saying: "don't judge a book by its cover." Like all of our colloquialisms, we hardly ever apply it to the situation that it describes. Perhaps we…
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