It was a great week of wrapping things up. Of bringing tasks to an end so that others can begin. First off, I finished integrating all the changes to my Urban Fantasy manuscript from my editor. Philip Newey does great work and I can’t recommend him enough. With the final pass of my latest novel […]
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The sequel to The Seventh Sons of Sycamore is more or less outlined. Having done this process a few times by now, I have some observations. I find it helpful to divide the book up into Beginning, Middle, and Ending. The Beginning needs a very detailed scene by scene breakdown. It sets the mood and […]
I’m starting two brand new projects. One is a sequel to The Seventh Sons of Sycamore, which was released in March but mostly written in 2013. The other is Project Zero, a short story. That’s a lot of new ideas to come up with, and I don’t want to take too long, cause time’s a […]
If you’ve been paying attention to very-important-authors this last week, you’ll undoubtedly be joining them with a torch and a pitchfork as they go after the inhuman evil that is Amazon. “Bring down the beast!” they cry. “They are destroying the book business!” There is no doubt that Amazon has shaken the industry. Don’t let […]
I used to work in the video game industry. Crunch Time was a dreaded concept. It’s basically working overtime to hit a milestone. To continue the parallel with writing books, Alpha should be the completion of the first draft. The book is done from beginning to end, but it has lots of problems. Then comes […]
So I thought it might be fun to publicize one of my future projects. My first priority is finishing the revisions on my WIP novel so I can send it to the editor. Then, naturally, I’m going to start outlining the sequel to The Seventh Sons of Sycamore. But there’s something else on the backburner […]
I’m working overtime to conclude the production phase of my Work-In-Progress. I have a cover commissioned, I think I found myself an editor, and I am busily finishing my final copy edit pass. Copy editing is slow going. I look at two main things: 1) The flow of each sentence I want the words to […]
Three weeks ago I finished the first draft of my second novel. It stood at 76k words, which was a nice accomplishment for me because The Seventh Sons Of Sycamore only totaled 67k. Over the next two weeks I went through the standard revision process that I’ve spoken about here. When that was done, my […]
Welcome to the FINAL INSTALLMENT of my series on Pixar’s now-famous 22 Rules of Storytelling. I don’t religiously follow all of these like they’re story commandments, but I do happen to agree with many of them. I thought it might be fun to examine why and explain what each means to me. You can start […]
Welcome to my series on Pixar’s now-famous 22 Rules of Storytelling. I don’t religiously follow all of these like they’re story commandments, but I do happen to agree with many of them. I thought it might be fun to examine why and explain what each means to me. You can start at the beginning here. […]
