True to form, as I’m starting to make progress in the rewrite of Tear of the Mountain – 13,000 words in – another new idea comes along. Cept it isn’t like any idea I’ve had before. A couple of days ago there was nothing. Next thing I knew, without even trying, I had, well, near [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Another Idea
Posted: September 27, 2009 in fantasy, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, writing, writing update
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The grand final of Australian Rules Football (better known as aussie rules or footy down here in Australia) is on this weekend and it got me thinking about sport in fantasy worlds and stories. Man has played sports as long as they have been around – the Greeks and Romans had their Games and the [...]
Excerpt
Posted: September 21, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
Making good progress on the rewrite of Tears of the Mountain so far, hitting 5400 words already. Feels like I’m making decent progress, though there is still a long way to go. I’m adding a excerpt from early on in the story – this is still the first rewrite so hasn’t been polished yet, and [...]
Rewrite Started
Posted: September 19, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
Now that the rough draft has been completed (for a given value of complete) and I’ve been through it, making some notes on what needs some changes or added, as well as trying to sort out the chronological issues, the rewrite has started. I find rewriting something from an older draft much easier to do [...]
More Cahuac On The Way
Posted: September 18, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
I’ve got a couple more Cahuac short stories in the works. I’d been turning over ideas in my head for what to do next with him and not one but two stories started taking form. Given how short they are and how fun and easy to write they are, it shouldn’t take long for them [...]
Tears of the Mountain: Adranatti
Posted: September 17, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, World Building, writing, writing update
Now that the rough draft is finished I’m going to be doing a few posts while doing the rewrite exploring the story; its locales, peoples and background. Nothing that will give away too much of the plot though. The first post will be about Adranatti, the City of Dreams. Located on the northern shores of [...]
Rough Draft Complete
Posted: September 17, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
The rough first draft of Tears of the Mountain is complete, more or less. It is very rough in parts, little more than an extended synopsis with minimal descriptions for large parts of it. All up its is only around 43,000 words but that will expand out to a more normal length once the rewrite [...]
Update
Posted: September 11, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
Been a few days since I last posted, so just popping in to do a bit of an update. After starting off the month in a blaze, the output has been slowing down but I am now at around 40K written on the first rough draft of Tears of the Mountain. I had expected to [...]
It Came Upon A Dream
Posted: September 2, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
Well, sort of. I went to bed last night mulling over a few ideas and thoughts about the story. When I woke this morning there was the gleaming of a scene taking form and by the time I got up it was fully realised. Not sure where it came from, perhaps the subconscious piecing together [...]
Updates
Posted: September 2, 2009 in GeneralTags: fantasy, Tears of the Mountain, World Building, writing
I’ve started doing some more updates to the website, fleshing out some of the pages and information contained within. This will likely continue over a period of time. The main two parts that have been, and will continue to be, worked on are the Tears of the Mountain and The Worlds of Mist and Shadows [...]
