I’ve just done something I’ve never managed in all my years as a writer before – write The End on a full length novel. Yup, after 90,012 words and a long time deciding just which novel to work on I have finally completed the first full draft of Tears of the Mountain. It’s a big [...]
Archive for July, 2010
The End, Of A Sort
Posted: July 20, 2010 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
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Here Be Dragons
Posted: July 17, 2010 in fantasy, Tears of the Mountain, World Building, writing updateTags: dragons, fantasy, fantasy writing, World Building, writing
Dragons are a ubiquitous element of fantasy. They are one of the first things most people would think about when the word fantasy is said to them and it is quicker to list fantasy series without dragons than it is to list those with them in it. Dragons are also rather varied, with many authors [...]
Being Sick Is A Pain
Posted: July 10, 2010 in Tears of the Mountain, World BuildingTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, World Building, writing, writing update
Of late I’ve been making good progress with the rewrite of Tears of the Mountain, averaging two to three thousand words a day. Until last week, when I got sick. Nothing terribly major, just the latest head cold that was going around. Unfortunately it stuffed my head up good and proper so that my brain [...]
