Failing again. Failing better.
I recently had a post on Brandon Sanderson at SDCC. Since then, I’ve been reading a series of posts about or by fantasy author Joe Abercrombie (blog). So I decided to bring them to everyone’s attention. First, publisher Gollancz has posted a series of articles by Joe Abercrombie on planning, writing, revising, and editing. also,…
Over on thedebutreview.com, they posted an interview with Jeff Salyards (Blog, Twitter), debut author of the highly-regarded SCOURGE OF THE BETRAYER. Go read the ten-question article. It’s full of good stuff for the beginner writer. As a beginner writer, I sympathized with much of what Jeff Salyards said. The laziness, the stretches of little writing…
Ok, so I misspoke (I didn’t lie–there was no intention there. (Did you know I was a lawyer?)). Here’s another post that is sort of an SDCC-wrap-up. But in all fairness, I have a good reason for the error. You see, I’m a big fan of author Brandon Sanderson (Blog; Twitter; videos of his writing…
I’m getting close to my deadline for my next Fantasy-Faction.com article as well as a submission deadline for my writing group, so I’m a little busy today. However, I will give you a sneak peak of that fantasy-faction.com article–kinda. I won’t spill all the beans, but a good part of the article is talking about…
So I’m currently working on a fantasy novel. In my story, magic is new to my fictional world. Some people have a knack for manipulating the power and can do things with it (good or bad things). But they are still learning, experimenting. As the story progresses, magic becomes more widespread, more powerful, and the…