I‘m about 13k words into my new book, The Ikessar Falcon (estimated completion at 150,000 words), which picks up exactly where The Wolf of Oren-yaro (which finished at 112,000 words and is currently in the hands of beta-readers) left off. Unlike The Wolf of Oren-yaro, where my daily word count (for six days a week) was closer …
I said I wouldn’t do this but it’s just too much fun not to. My scathing review of Aina’s Breath, Book 2 of The Agartes Epilogues. Just when you didn’t think Villoso was capable of writing any worse, she *does it again*. Aina’s Breath starts off with a prologue that’s completely unrelated to the previous brain …
I was trying to think about what to write for this scheduled blog post. And as I was doing that, I remembered a walk that I took with my dog–amazingly enough, exactly five years ago. It was spring time and I needed to take pictures for my thesis in college, which involved studying the watershed of …
Now that a few reviews of Jaeth’s Eye has rolled in, I wanted to speak a little about what I was trying to do when I first wrote the novel. (There’s probably some spoilers here, so keep that in mind if you’re already starting on the novel and want to figure a few things out yourself). …
I‘m rehashing. I’m being a rehasher. It’s a long weekend and I’m suffering from artistic withdrawal. This is a thing now. It’s a bad side effect of training yourself to meet word counts every day. Some of my friends liken the effect of a “writing day” to a drug. It’s that bad. So I’m twiddling …
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