The new story ‘Dawn of Wolves’ continues to make progress – the rewrite is up to 39,000 words already (even though the rough draft isn’t finished yet.) When I started I thought it would be only about 40K words, but now it is looking at being between 50 & 60K, taking it out of novella [...]
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Dawn of Wolves Update & Other Things
Posted: August 17, 2011 in Dawn of Wolves, Sharael, writing, writing updateTags: Dawn of Wolves, fantasy, fantasy writing, writing, writing update
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Exploring the Nations and Cultures of the Setting
Posted: August 11, 2011 in Sharael, World BuildingTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, World Building
I have started a new section of the website that will explore the various nations and cultures of Sharael, having a brief look at their histories, appearances and more. To start it off are the Maedari, about whom I mostly write. Strangely, though they are prominent in all the stories, I haven’t written one yet [...]
Meet Professor Halir, The Unexpected Character
Posted: January 3, 2011 in fantasy, Pure Escapism, Sharael, Tears of the Mountain, winter wolves, World Building, writing updateTags: characters, fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, Tears of the Mountain, winter wolves, World Building, writing, writing update
Professor Halir Ashford. Historian, Explorer and Adventurer. One of the favourite characters I’ve written so far. And a character who really shouldn’t have existed beyond a minor mention. It happens from time to time; characters take on a life of their own and demand a bigger say in things. His story starts back with a [...]
NaNoWriMo: Update
Posted: November 19, 2010 in fantasy, Sharael, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing, writing update
As may have been noticed I have updated in a bit. That is because the project has fallen over. I got eleven days in and then it stopped. There are a number of reasons behind this, including coming down sick and working on editing. I’m trying to get Tears of the Mountain sent off to [...]
NaNoWriMo Day Eleven
Posted: November 12, 2010 in General, Sharael, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing, writing update
There was a time there yesterday where I was almost ready to give up on NaNoWriMo – I had done nothing on the story and was wondering if I’d get around to doing any. In the end though I had a late start I wrote almost 2000 words, bringing the total up to 17018 words. [...]
NaNoWriMo Day Ten
Posted: November 11, 2010 in General, Sharael, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing, writing update
One third of the way through the month and I’m not yet one third of the way through the novel. I’m only sitting at 15,197 words, a full day behind where I should be. To catch up I need to be writing around 3,000 words today. Not an impossibility, but things always seem to come [...]
NaNoWriMo Day Nine
Posted: November 10, 2010 in fantasy, Sharael, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing, writing update
Yesterday I fell behind for the first time. Total output to date is 14500 when it needed to be 15000. That yesterday was busy didn’t help, nor does the fact that today will be the same. I may end up further behind by the end of today – luckily tomorrow doesn’t look to be busy [...]
NaNoWriMo Day Eight
Posted: November 9, 2010 in fantasy, Sharael, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing, writing update
The story is slowly beginning to develop, reaching 13,543 words. Puts me once again just slightly ahead of the progressive word count I need to make it. But not by much. And the next two days may be rather busy, limiting my chance to make real progress. The next character we will have a look [...]
NaNoWriMo Day Seven
Posted: November 8, 2010 in General, Sharael, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing, writing update
My weekend was a bit busy than I would have liked it to be, severely cutting down on the amount of time I had to write. I did manage to, just, hit the daily quotas, but only by staying up really late. Total so far now stands at 11,753 words. There are some people who [...]
NaNoWriMo Day Six
Posted: November 7, 2010 in fantasy, Sharael, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing, writing update
One fifth of the way through the month I have done one fifth of the story – 10,060 words to be exact. Yesterday was not a day conducive to writing. Between a nephew’s birthday, helping my brother work on building a deck out the back and other matters I didn’t get a chance to start [...]
