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After NaNoWriMo
So, if everything goes to plan, in a few hours you will have written 50,000 words in the month of November. Congratulations! That is quite an accomplishment, and you should be proud, especially if this was your first NaNoWriMo. Take a moment to take a breath and appreciate all you have accomplished in such a […]
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Four
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed any of the previous weeks you can read them here: week one, week two, and week three. November 18th Wordcount target: 80000 Words written: 72934 The real world […]
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Three
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed week one, you can read it here. And week two is here. November 18th Wordcount target: 55,000 Words written: 52,899 The first time I tried to draft a […]
On Character Construction
When writing in the fantasy genre, it’s all too easy to get caught up in the wonder of the world: the magic, the monsters, the bleak dungeons and shining cites can overwhelm everything else. But in such a world, the character is all the more important; they are the reader’s viewpoint into the story and […]
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Two
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed week one, you can read it here. November 11th Wordcount target: 30,000 Words written: 23,240 A third of the way through and after a poor start, the gist […]
Fantasy Relationship Building: From Real World to the Page
When I mentioned at the end of my last article that I was looking for some ideas for future columns, our esteemed Overlord suggested that I tackle romantic relationships in fantasy. Never content with confining myself to just one idea, I thought, “hey, why not look at some of the relationships we’ve come to know […]
Commas…To Avoid Confusion
In an effort to educate myself, I am taking a deeper, longer and more exhaustive look at commas. The most basic use for commas is to indicate a pause where you would take a breath when reading. Personally, I like commas and have been accused, rightly, of their overuse. This topic makes my brain melt. […]
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week One
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. November 1st Wordcount Target: 0 Words Written: 0 I bring this up, and the next few days, mostly so I have all my ducks in a row for making excuses. I […]
National Novel Writing Month
It’s that time of year again, when my Twitter stream is going to fill up with the hash-tag #nanowrimo; and a good few of you, if not most, if not all, will know exactly what that means. In case there are a handful out there who, like I was the first time around, are staring […]
The Rulebreaker’s Guide to the Semicolon
When I started writing fiction again in November 2009, I just wrote. I didn’t care about what was okay, what was forbidden, and what was tolerable—I just purged my head of the story that had been stewing there for three years. It was raw and unpracticed and ugly, but there was something so authentic about […]
Five Ways To Use NaNoWriMo As Your Writing R&D Department
November sees the arrival of NaNoWriMo, the challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in just 30 days. In a couple of weeks many of you will be writing like your lives depended on it. To many it’s a celebration of fiction, a time to brush all other commitments aside and just write without distraction. […]
Winner of the July 2013 Writing Contest
In this month’s short story contest, participants wrote us stories about ‘the deep’. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at the winner, here is the write up for the contest. – – – In our world there are few places left that humans have not conquered and few things that truly […]
