I’m not going to look back at my resolutions for last year – I know that most of them never got done, which is why I normally don’t bother. It is a good time, however, to look back over 2010 and to look forward to 2011. 2010 was a year of missed opportunities, both writing [...]
Archive for the ‘Tears of the Mountain’ Category
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards
Posted: January 1, 2011 in fantasy, Pure Escapism, Tears of the Mountain, The Oncoming Storm, winter wolves, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, publishing, Pure Escapism, Short story, smashwords, Tears of the Mountain, The Oncoming Storm, winter wolves, writing, writing update
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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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Return Of An Old Friend
Posted: June 30, 2010 in fantasy, Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
As some may have noticed, I haven’t been posting as much on here of late – though that isn’t due to lack of want, just lack of time and topics. But I do have news, of a type. A few weeks back I went through an old novel I had started quite a long while [...]
Puttering Along
Posted: October 5, 2009 in fantasy, Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
Making progress on the writing, which is good. The rewrite of Tears of the Mountain is at about 20,000 words now. Around a quarter of what I’m aiming for. Hopefully by the end of the month I’ll be close to completing the rewrite. Still also mucking about with ideas for the plot of Shadow Watch [...]
September Report
Posted: October 1, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy writing, novel writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
And that is September done – just three more months left of the year. All up for the month managed only around 35,000 words, which was a bit of a let down. Only managed to add one more story to the collection, Cara’s Choice Part Four, though did start on a couple more Cahuac stories, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
