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How is everyone? Good I hope!


How is your WIP progressing? (You know how mine is going.)

When you write, do you picture characters ahead of time, or let them wonder into your mind during creation? (I don’t plan a thing, especially how a character looks like or what they’ll do.)

Without question, there has to be “telling” in a book… it can’t all be showing. How do you keep telling short and sweet—not to mention intriguing? (I really struggle with this one: not the intriguing part-I hope-but with the right amount.)

Thx for stopping by and any comment you might leave.

Been gone...

Sorry all, I’ve been out of town with very sporadic internet access.


My revisions are progressing (very slowly) but I feel at peace with my work… at least for now.

Please read this, and tell me what you think.

Set up: the battle against the magical realm has taken a turn for the worse; horrible creatures have breached the cities walls. Tristan is running home to find his mother and get her safely out of the city, an order he neglected to do earlier. (The creatures have been adequately described on previous pages.)


REMOVED... Thx for your input.

Rewrite of first page...

I've been struggling to keep my pace going, and yet, get the essentials down. Give it a read if you will, and let me know what works or doesn’t work.


On a side note, I have determined to do what it takes, and never give up on my dream… even if it takes the rest of my life. I thank everyone who has been a part of my development. I hope it isn’t too much to read, thx either way.

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Removed... Thx for the ones who offered opinions.

I am on the verge of giving up…

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The more I try and learn proper grammar, and storytelling. The more I feel it’s almost impossible for me. It is a hard thing to realize your dream, just might be, impossible to achieve.

I guess I have been living in denial this whole time. I just kept telling myself if I continue to write and try to learn basic grammar through videos and books, it would work out in the end… so far, I think I just might be too much to accomplish.

I wish the technical side of writing would come as natural to me as coming up with the stories has been.

I’ve finished my 98k word novel, and began the revising part, but now, it might find its way into the trash forever.

It just feels to daunting. I would give anything to go back and pay attention in school, instead of partying and ditching classes all the time.

I just hope my mind changes in the next few days.

Thx for stopping by.

What to post?

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I have been pondering what drives me to choose a book when I am looking through my local book store. I have condensed my findings to three key points…

Now disregarding the books from authors I like or the books other people have suggested I read, I have chosen these three points.

1: I pick books by the cover… if I hate the cover I won't even read the blurb.

2: If the cover strikes me and I love the story idea… hence love the blurb, I will then move onto three.

3: Open the book in the middle and read several pages; if the author can make me like his writing in the middle of the book then I know it is for me…

Now what makes you buy a new book from an author unknown to you?

Thx for any comment you might leave and thx for stopping by.
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Sorry been out of the loop.

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The more I see my story come together, I believe my book fits between alternate history and medieval fantasy.

Should I take great effort to make my book fit into one genre, or let it be what it is?

When you write do you even consider what genre your work is geared towards, or do you let the story fit whatever genre it might fall into after completion?

Thanks for stopping by and any comment you might leave.

On a side not I haven’t had internet accesses lately and apologize for not being around, hopefully I have caught up on all your blogs.

Hung up...

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I’ve been hung up on something… I don’t even know what yet.

I sit and stare at my screen but can’t write a word.

The story is one chapter away from being finished, yet something isn’t clicking in my head. I am hoping it will come together soon, but I really don’t know what the problem is.

I guess it’s a form of writers block—my brain is trying to work something out subconsciously I guess.

I thought I knew what I wanted to write about until I begin to write. I write a paragraph… erase it, write another erase it. I do this over and over until I sit motionless staring at a blank screen.

I really don’t know what I am trying to ask, or even what I am trying to accomplish by this post.

I guess in a way it helps to get it out.

Thx for stopping by, and good luck with your WIP.

What does it mean to be "Satisfied"

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At what point do you except your writing for what it is… how can you be happy enough to call a manuscript complete?


I wish I knew, and hope someday I will know.

I’ve been out of town without internet access, so I hope I’ve caught up with all your blogs.

The more I look back on what I’ve done the more I see the writer I was rather than who I am or think I am.

I can’t move on and I can’t seem to find happiness in what I am doing, so all I can do is keep moving forward until I am.

What about you, how is it going and how do you find the “good” in what you write.

Any tricks, suggestion or any other comment you leave will not fall on deaf ears.

Thx

Compare

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Compare... do you ever compare a good book to your own, and it makes you feel hopeless, like everything you have done pales in comparison, like you should try and make it grander, bigger, better just to make your book fit in.



I try and not do this, but like most authors I find it nearly impossible.


Every time a character sticks with me after reading a particular book, I find myself wishing readers of my book will look at my chars this way.


Learning to be ME is becoming the biggest obstacle of all during the process of becoming a writer.


Trying to write with my own voice while growing from others authors who inspire me-and yet not letting those voices control mine is a strange place to be.


What do you think?


Thx for any comment you might

So, how is everyone doing?

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How is your WIP going?

How’s life?

My WIP is going along (slowly) but at least is going. If everything works out as I predict I should be wrapped up with the first draft (my 5th first draft) the reason I call it a first draft instead of revision, is because of the amount of changes.

I find my dialog and characters are good, far better than I would have thought. My ability to narrate and write well constructed sentences so it’s not so “herky-jerky” for the reader, is my down fall.

The problem is my attempt to fix these issues, every time it seems worse than when I started… so I’m moving on to completion and will seek help from the Pro (Shakespeare) when I’m done.

Thx for any comment you might leave.

Best of luck to you all… lord knows I need it.