Happy New Year!!! For those of you that don’t benefit from the video feed*, I’m doing a huge muppet arm-flail and my dogs are looking at me like I’ve lost it. I hope that this year brings peace to all of you. I also want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who bought …
This week, I thought I’d give you all a glimpse behind the scenes, so to speak, and share my character sheet. This is the same sheet I use for each and every character I create. For my main characters, I fill this out either completely or nearly completely. For minor characters, I’ll fill out what …
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First, let me get the biggest thought out of the way. We’re getting close to the half-way point and, if you’re out there slinging words onto the page, let me just say: Keep it up, you’re doing great! Whatever your word count is currently, or will eventually be …
Before I get down into today’s post, I wanted to mention that I’ve got a Links page! Yes, There probably should have been one a long time ago. What can I say: (Still learning…) I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about today. Some weeks, the topics come easy. Other …
Three days ago was the deadline for submitting my story to Faith Hunter’s* Rogue Mage anthology. I’m happy to say that I got it in ahead of schedule and under the maximum word count. But there were days where I had my doubts. So I thought I’d take an honest look back and try and …
Read more “How a Short Story is Born a.k.a: The Price of Power – What the Heck Happened?”
Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: The Price of Power Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Final Word Count: 7,597 Words Tonight, I sent my story off to the editor. 2 days ahead of schedule!!! BOOYAH!! *Drops Mic and walks offstage …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: The Price of Power Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 7,567 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 3 days Ok, I got feedback from my Beta Readers and…let me digress for a second. I …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: The Price of Power (See, I did say it might change) Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 7,786 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 6 days So, the internet died yesterday. Well, not the …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: Sisters…It’s a working title, subject to change Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 7,690 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 8 days I missed the Day 9 update. I’d been working on this at …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: Sisters…It’s a working title, subject to change Due Date: April 1st Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 11,386 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 10 days Here we go, T-Minus 10 days and counting!!! The Total …
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