Thoughts on the process of writing epic fantasy and worldbuilding.
I‘ve been at this indie writing thing like a ‘roided up pit bull since about Fall 2016, and that’s not much of a hyperbole. To put it into perspective, I was only about two or three chapters into Sapphire’s Flight at the time, and I only had Jaeth’s Eye published. Since then, I’ve gone on to finish and …
Read more “And Sometimes You Just Have To Admit You Need Help”
I‘m reading two novels at the moment: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, and The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. It’s interesting to be reading these two books at once. One, because of Hemingway’s sparse prose, contrasted against this passage in Wolfe’s novel (written well over half a century later). It begins with: …
Read more ““Showing,” and the Value of Multiple Interpretations”
Something I learned pretty early on in life: the world doesn’t care about your desire to succeed. It really doesn’t. It doesn’t give a fuck about how much you want something, or how hard you’ve worked, or how much you think you deserve that shiny prize. It very rarely gets impressed with what you had …
A common question authors get asked is “Which of your characters are most like you?” If you’re a smart author, you would’ve probably tried to avoid making a character TOO much like you and relied on your talent and skill to come up with some great, original characters (or, if you’re smarter, you would’ve used …
The Ikessar Falcon is launched, marking my third and last novel release for this year. It’s done; come hell or highwater, there’s nothing more I can do for that book. It’s all in the readers’ hands. I did my best to tell this story a certain way, but how people respond to it is no …
