…poking around in old files on an old computer. I ran across two short stories I write many, many years ago, one sci-fi, one fantasy. As it happens both came out of games I used to play. I’m going to rewrite them both now that my writing has improved a little and hope to have [...]
Archive for August, 2009
It Is Funny What You Find…
Posted: August 17, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, sci-fi, sci-fi writing, Short story, writing, writing update
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Dark Sun Returns
Posted: August 15, 2009 in GeneralTags: D&D, dark sun, fantasy, fantasy writing, writing
Many years ago, I came across a campaign setting for AD&D 2nd ED called Dark Sun. It was my first foray into non-traditional fantasy and I fell in love with the setting; a dark, gritty world where an apocalyptic war of magic had left most of the world a desert wasteland, countless races wiped out [...]
Reflections on Reflections
Posted: August 14, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Over the last few days, in addition to working on the rough draft of Tears of the Mountain, I have also been making progress on the next short story in the Nhaqosa collection, called Echoes of Dark Reflections. The rough draft is getting close to the end, but do date it has turned out a [...]
From Plot Point To Rough Draft
Posted: August 14, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
I have in the past had a tendency to want to write the whole story in one go no plotting, no rough drafts, just the finished story. It is kind of a bad way of going about things and can explain why so little in the past ever got finished. Even today when I am [...]
Jumping Around The Plot
Posted: August 13, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
Not sure if it is because of the new way of plotting the story, but I’ve found I’m starting to jump around the plot writing a bit. A scene plays through my mind so I grab the note for it off the plotting board and write it up then stick the note back on. May [...]
Plotting Done
Posted: August 12, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
I spent a large chunk of yesterday in finishing up the plotting of Tears of the Mountain and now have a cork-board covered with notes, mostly in order. There are still a couple of scenes that need to be slotted in somewhere, but all the plot details are now written up in note form. First [...]
A Slow Week
Posted: August 11, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Probably closer to two weeks actually. Since I finished off Gifts and Sacrifices I haven’t had as much time to write as I’d like. Very little in fact. Some of it was various events conspiring against me, and some has been generally laziness. Not that I haven’t done nothing, just very little. I think I [...]
Just a minor, quirky little thing of interest – keep an eye on the clocks today at 12:34 and 56 seconds. Why? Well, at least for those of us who follow a dd/mm/yy dating system at that precise moment it will be 12:34:56 7/8/9.
Gifts and Sacrifices Posted
Posted: August 3, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, gunpowder fantasy, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
I have finally finished off the editing and proof-reading (I hope) of Gifts and Sacrifices, which I had previously been referring to as The Gift, and have posted it up in the Pure Escapism collection. At 15,500 words, it is the longest of the short stories posted to date, and may even be considered a [...]
Fantasy Cliches to Avoid: Part Four
Posted: August 2, 2009 in writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Short story, writing, writing update
Today sees the last part of working through the Fantasy Writing Clichés to Avoid list from Obsidian Bookshelf. Magic, Too Cheesy Fireballs shoot from one’s hands! When I started I was guilty of this with over-the-top cheesy magic. I got over that phase though when I grew up. The magic that exists now is of [...]
