Sometimes everything just goes your way – characters chat like they’re real, plot points slide into place like lubed puzzle pieces, backstory surfaces subtley and effortlessley – oh who am I kidding! It’s hell all the time! Here are a couple of things that are worrying me this week. Read more…
It’s never a bad time to start thinknig about your ending for your epic creation. But how do you go about it? Discuss! Read more…
Getting stuck sucks, but when you’re working on something this big, you’re bound to run aground at least once. Here’s some ways of approaching that slow grind. Read more…
Wherein we speak of motivation, doubt, and fitting new material into the old. Read more…
There are big projects, and there are big projects. In the start of a new series of posts, I’ll be taking a look at what it takes to create your own epic. Let’s step beyond novels, and into the realms of epic fiction! Read more…
We’ve touched on it before, but it’s time to tackle gender in genre fiction. And we’d like you to join in the discussion. Got an opinion? Come on in and lay down your comments. Read more…
Time to examine one of my weaknesses and talk about character. Read the writing techniques I’ve used to force depth from shallow waters! Read more…
I’d like to take a step back and really examine some of the basics of writing, really get down to brass tacks, so to speak. The reason? Well, this week, during a bit of back and fourth on a long gestating collaborative project, I felt like the project had burst, and I couldn’t take it any further. Read more…
This week, I want to talk about a particular issue that dominates a lot of my writing, and along the way, explore some options to avoid the same pitfalls. Read more…
You ever look over past projects and think, “how did I come up with this”!? That’s what I’ve just been doing, and it got me wondering… what are the story elements I use to kick-start a project? Read more…