Continuing on from yesterday’s post, looking at the Fantasy Writing Clichés to Avoid list from Obsidian Bookshelf, seeing how I fair. Characters, Names. Don’t create names that sound randomly generated by software! I go about names through a couple of steps. First, work out which culture they belong to in the world. People who come [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Fantasy Cliches to Avoid: Part Two
Posted: July 31, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Short story, writing, writing update
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Ah, Purple Prose; sensually evocative beyond the requirements of its context. The prominence now days of the teenager writer it would appear, or oft for those that write for them. Lets face it, we all at one time or another wrote in that manner. A comment made earlier in the day made me think of [...]
Fantasy Cliches to Avoid: Part One
Posted: July 30, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Short story, writing, writing update
Recently came across a post at Obsidian Bookshelf called Fantasy Writing Cliches to Avoid. I’m going to make my way through the list over a couple of days and see what I have and haven’t avoided. Architecture. An historic castle is sometimes really tiny! I seem to have avoided this by not really having castles. [...]
Background Notes Done
Posted: July 30, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
I’ve gone through each page for each short story currently available and finished off the background notes for each. Nothing profound; just a little something relating to how the story came about or something of interest within the story and what was behind it.
Pure Escapism Updated
Posted: July 28, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, pulps, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing
All of the short stories of the Pure Escapism collection have now been updated with the new edited version, hopefully most, if not all, of the errors contained within them removed. It has taken three days to do it all. Now it is time to get back to the writing of new stuff
Editing Done
Posted: July 28, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
The editing of all the short stories is done, for now at least. Next step is to get the new versions uploaded to the site. Interesting discovery made during the process. You pick up far, far more errors when you read it out loud than just reading it; your eyes tend to skip over errors [...]
I really enjoyed the first season of ‘Castle’ (as much for the humour as for Nathan Fillion), and am looking forward to the second one – and as a hopeful author would love to have the success that Richard Castle has on the show. Now I hear that there is to be a highly unusual, [...]
Editing Day
Posted: July 26, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
For whatever reason, I seem to have a blind spot when it comes to editing. I can read a draft through five times and not noticed a glaringly obvious error, and then still miss it on the sixth go. It is not that I can’t spell; I’m fairly good at that. I think it may [...]
The Gift Rewrite Complete
Posted: July 25, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Just finished doing the rewrite of The Gift (though I need to come up with a bit better name for it). Took five days and totals 15,000 words. Next step is to do the editing and polishing. That may take almost as long, depending on time available.
Surging Forward
Posted: July 24, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
When I sat down at the end of yesterday and did a word count I was quite staggered by it – 5500 words in total. I was not expecting as much, not after the stop-start nature that much of the day and compounded by having to have an hour long lie down in the middle [...]
