I love research. I love libraries. In a different time, I think I would have happily become a research librarian. Now my research is talking with people that have experience in areas I don’t and wading through websites. So many websites. It becomes very easy for me to spend hours researching a topic with only […]
Conventions No, not the comic book kind, although they are a lot of fun. Genre conventions may or may not be a lot of fun. On the positive side, if you understand that the conventions for writing in the high fantasy genre are considerably different than cyberpunk, then genre conventions provide rails for the writing […]
Veiled Space contains multiple Story Worlds, each with their own personality and background. The Jagged Earth is the first to be explored in a published work, but I have notebooks of world-building information. Creating the ground rules for how the world functions on a fundamental level is very important for me to be able to […]
Anniversary The one-year anniversary of Orchids Ablaze rolls around a few months from now. The second book will not be anywhere near ready by then. I can’t tell the story I want to, the way I want to, without taking more time than I originally thought (hoped!). I seem to experience that problem more and […]
The First Book I hope that I’m not that unusual in having second thoughts. The most frustrating second thought is finding better ways to say what I wanted to say in the first book! And finding mistakes in the first book, but that’s relatively easy to fix thanks to the magic of online publishing. Perhaps […]
Groovy As in “back in the groove” at least temporarily. Completed about 1800 words gross working on the Prologue/Chapter 1. I’m not even considering what my net word count might be. For now, it’s enough just to get back to consistently writing. The more I write into it, the more it’s beginning to beef up […]