I had a realization about the final story in The Wind on the Blade, and it was that the guts and the bones are there, but some of them were in the wrong place. And the intent was wrong, or maybe didn't even exist. I had an intent, as the author, but my protagonist did …
Category: Writing
Broken Plates
I have added another 3605 words to the final story in The Wind on the Blade. Is it finished? Maybe. I don't know. I'm tired and I'm not up for reading it back right now. I'll do it in the morning. Or sometime thereafter. There is so much on my plate right now. My plate …
3am, writing
I am writing at 3am, trying to get the final story in The Wind on the Blade finished. It was an incomplete story in its first incarnation. The solution that I have been crafting, with my editor's input, is something that is much longer and more involved than what I had originally imagined. Therefore, I …
“Finally,” he said, unconvincingly.
I have finally finished the rewrite of the story that has been tormenting me lately. Yes, the one about the mystery victim in Headless. It is the fourth of six stories in The Wind on the Blade, half of which are short stories and half of which are novelettes. I did not know I was …
POV of the Dead
I feel good about today's work on The Wind on the Blade. I only wrote a little over 500 words, but they were good words. The POV shift that my editor suggested is so spot on. I don't know what I was thinking before. The problem is that I had shifted the POV away from …
A Little Further
I got some good work in on the bonus story in The Wind on the Blade today and yesterday, mostly rewriting existing stuff, so it’s hard to give a word count. But I’ve gotten through the difficult bit finally. The rest is pretty good, although one section will need a POV shift. Then I get …
Words in the Snow
I wrote about 900 words today and rewrote about 600. I also deleted probably 300. Of the newly written ones, 250 were on a new story that I woke up with in my head. It's a piece of an epic fantasy that I started ages ago and then put aside so I could write the …
No Words Lately
I’ve spent a lot of time in bed these past few weeks, because of my surgery (which was for a hernia repair, FYI). I was frustrated that my recovery hit some unexpected bumps in the beginning, but I am feeling much better now. I'm still not supposed to carry the kid, but sometimes it's been …
Third Person is Not a 30k Feet View
I started listening to a popular writers' podcast this morning, one I have listened to a few times before and enjoyed. Today, however, I had to turn it off after only a couple minutes. One of the writers talked about writing in the first person and how he preferred it to the "30,000 feet view …
No Promises Large Enough Available NOW
The long-awaited sequel to my novel, Headless, is finally here. The real book is at least twice this thick. Book two in The Ghost and the Mask series picks up only a couple months after the end of Headless. Akio and Masami are back into their routine at work. Akio is getting terrible headaches, and …
