Just When I Think So… … it slaps me in the face again. Or at least it seems so. Every time I believe I have locked in enough information to drop the correct details into a story I manage to find something I missed. I’ve written three legends to go with the new book, I […]
Otherwise known as a Work In Progress… ain’t acronyms grand? “Still Life” A “Still Life” the term I use for small, short pieces that I create as writing exercises. Most often I concentrate on one scene, or even just a single image, to work on description, imagery, dialogue construction, or a specific aspect of writing. […]
Book 2 Revisited The second book is moving along. I missed a few regular writing sessions from not feeling well and from attending a convention one weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed the convention and talked with interesting people excited about books. It was inspiring and a little frightening. There are a lot of talented people putting […]
Until recently, I hadn’t given much thought to attending trade shows and/or conventions. With only one book “in the wild” and a hosted website, it seemed a little presumptuous. I self-published Orchids Ablaze strictly as an ebook at first. Hardcopy printing brings in new levels of complexity and planning. Just getting the cover and content to display […]
Minor Characters That Is I like to use minor characters to populate the setting and give the main action a larger context. I think it’s an important part of world-building. As a superheroic setting, the Jagged Earth is rife with possibilities for less-than-major heroes and villains. However, we’ve all seen movies where the supporting cast […]
Site Polls No, not the political kind, or even the Nielsen kind. I’m talking about the Veiled Space kind! We put up a few polls when we first opened up the site that we wanted to get feedback on. The results of the polls are listed below. You’ll also find the impacts your choices made. […]