Thinking about magic systems…
While at NorWesCon, I attended a panel on magic systems and how to get them right. While I was listening to the panel, it occurred to me that in my WIPs right now, I’m tinkering with four separate magic systems. The Yowlerverse The Yowlerverse is probably the best-thought-out of the systems, and the most destructive [...]
“Murder your darlings…”
One of the most common phrases you hear early in any writing career is “Murder your darlings.” What it means is that you must learn to ruthlessly cull any scene from your story that doesn’t serve the story, no matter how much you love that scene, no matter that it’s the one scene in the [...]
Rainforest Writer’s Retreat and a lack of self-discovery
Eagle over Lake Quinalt I would like to say that my time at the Quinalt Rainforest Writer’s Retreat for 2009 resolved some questions for me about my writing habit obsession hobby career whatever one way or another, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. What I did learn is that the secret to productivity is to Turn [...]
Gone to my happy place.
I got completely and totally bored with writing more in the fetish-y fantasy novel that doesn’t have enough sex in it, so I decided to write a “Ken and Aaden fuck” story, entitled Audience. Pure porn. 2000 words in less than an hour. “When he was fucking you… do you really like that? Like that, [...]
2800 words today.
I’m at Rainforest Writer’s Retreat this weekend. RWR is my annual attempt to get my shit together and collate my stories into the shape they’re going to be in, to pick the themes and stories i’m going to be hacking on for the next twelve months. Internet access here is very bad, and I’m mostly [...]
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