I just finished watching the movie Warcraft for the first time. I’m an avid fan of the series–played the RTS games thoroughly as a young child and teenager, and then later World of Warcraft (as a male hunter orc named Uran, and then later again as a male shaman orc called Icarus. Uhhh, I may have …
When people complain about the writing in fantasy–even if it’s a legitimate complaint–but they seem to be relatively clueless at the hellfire-and-lightning storm-plagued mountain ridge the fantasy writer had to go through to even finish their book–I feel like throwing things. It’s not that readers aren’t allowed to complain about things. They’re allowed to–it’s your …
Dear Sume, I was so excited to read your letter yesterday that I nearly ripped it in half. Kefier liked hearing about your little adventure in the market, but he wants you to explain something. How many rats, exactly, and what was the man’s reaction after you told him? We had an interesting job the …
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I wrote Jaeth’s Eye when I was 17 years old. It wasn’t called Jaeth’s Eye back then. It was called The Lion’s Tracks. The first manuscript was finished at 150,000 or 160,000 words, I believe. I wrote it in the span of 6 months during a long vacation in the Philippines. This was back in the days when …
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I‘m going to have to push out some of my ridiculously fun-to-make Omakebites for a bit of an announcement. Just today, Sapphire’s Flight, Book 3 of The Agartes Epilogues, hit 180,000 words. I’ve projected it to finish at around 190,000 words and it looks like it’s going to come to that. In any case, the plan …
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