Now that the latest two stories have been finished and added to the site, time to catalogue what is next on the To Do list. On the website side of things, I need to keep slowly adding to the Worlds of Mist and Shadows page, expanding on it, and to also finish off writing the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Coming Up Next
Posted: July 23, 2009 in Pure Escapism, Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
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Welcome To the Mist and Shadows
Posted: July 22, 2009 in GeneralTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing
WELCOME TO MY WORLD This website is part writing journal, part blog and part repository of stories both of adventure and fantastical in nature. As a writing journal it tracks projects I am working on, their progress, ideas, updates and all other things writing related. As a blog it features things of interest to me; [...]
Future Portents Completed
Posted: July 21, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, World Building, writing, writing update
A second short story has had its editing complete today and been posted on the site. Future Portents is a stand along story, set in the core world of the Mist and Shadows setting, Sharael. It is a bit of a different story, set at the dawn of the bronze age, when stone was beginning [...]
The Merchant’s Legacy Completed
Posted: July 21, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, minotaur, minotaurs, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
I have finished off the editing for the latest short story in the Pure Escapism collection; The Merchant’s Legacy. This is a follow up to the short story The Pit, though picks up the action some time afterwards and follows Nhaqosa, the giant white Minotaur and escaped gladiator, as he seeks the long roads to [...]
Rewrite Done
Posted: July 20, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Just finished the rewrite of The Merchant’s Legacy. Turned a 7400 word rough draft into 10700 words. Quite happy with the way it turned out. Next trick is the extensive editing needed for it, and the other recently completed short story, Future Portents, and then I can make the available to read, hopefully in a [...]
Procrastination And Goal Setting
Posted: July 19, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy writing, novel writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
As I have mentioned before I’m something of a procrastinator when it comes to writing, and I don’t really set goals or plot out things properly, which adds to that problem. When it comes to writing I’ve always been a bit of a seat-of-pantser, just having a vague idea and going with it. Oddly, this [...]
I’m hoping to make a few adjustments to the site int he next day or two – in reality I’d like to do a complete overhaul, but the tools on the free hosted wordpress site are a bit limited for that, and as a poor starving writer moving to a hosted site is a bit [...]
Rewrite Update
Posted: July 17, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Over the past three days I have had a rather productive spurt, clocking up almost 10,000 words. 5000 of those were yesterday. Haven’t managed to be so productive in, well, quite some time. All of yesterday and art of the day before were spent on doing the rewrite of Future Portents and in the process [...]
News From Smashwords
Posted: July 16, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, smashwords, writing, writing update
As I have mentioned before, I’ve been putting the Pure Escapism short stories up on Smashwords as well as being able to download them directly from here. Recently Smashwords have added a top 100 category, showing the 100 most downloaded stories on the site. Of those 100, 84 are free – hardly surprising really. Nothing [...]
The Coming Together Of Ideas
Posted: July 16, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
So there I was working away on The Merchant’s Legacy short story, and right at the end I added to a conversation between Nhaqosa and Kythias, a character who is destined to appear in In Fire, the novel plotted for that world. And then a curious thing happened. The comments, meant simply as a couple [...]
