NaNo Update: A Little Self-Congratulations
The last thing I was expecting a month ago was that this blog post would be about achieving, about setting an insane goal and attaining it. Instead, I thought it’d Continue Reading →
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World of Ontyre: Special NaNo Edition 3
Because NaNoWriMo fast approaches I’ve shared how planning was the building blocks to enriching my novels. More specifically, I’m talking about planning for a fantasy novel. For me that means Continue Reading →
The Visual Know: A Map for NaNoWriMo
Another year. Another NaNoWriMo. Another pitch on my part to inspire writers to pen their fantasy novels using a map. Yes, a map. Here I go again talking about maps Continue Reading →
What Do You Know, It’s NaNoWriMo
It’s almost time for NaNoWriMo. This will be my fifth, the first four successful. While not everyone plots, NaNo is a different beast. NaNo is sprint, and that’s assuming you Continue Reading →
There are Rewrites, and REWRITES.
There’s drafting and there’s editing, and then there are rewrites. What I’m discovering is that not all rewrites are created equal. Sure, each novel is unique, but I’m not talking Continue Reading →
Til There Was Quiet
Fleeing, hiding, escaping, self-harm. Kneeling, reeling, holding herself, overcome. Misery, apathy, nothingness, alone. Clear tears, red tears, side by side as one. Crying, dying, she exhaled and was gone. ©May Continue Reading →
She Learned
She learned… paint a smile, pull it to the eyes, see through their lies, and assist them when their deceits stumbled. Aiding their deceptions was well advised, for to do Continue Reading →
A Pill to Hold
How lucky she was, how fortunate in so many ways, there were no more worries, even on cloudy days. Her smiling analyst had a pill for loneliness, a substitute for Continue Reading →
Revisiting World Building in Pannulus
The Pannulus map is done, but more important, it’s done far ahead of schedule. Another map? Yup, but the story for this one is different than the other two. The Continue Reading →
Yesterday’s Dinosaurs
They’re gobbling up the planet and themselves, no thought for tomorrow only wealth. They’re yesterday’s dinosaurs, learning nothing from before, looting the future so they can have more. They ridicule Continue Reading →