I’m hesitating a little bit about this blog post, because I feel like as soon as I post it somebody will jab me with a spork while saying, “Really, K? REALLY? YOU know how to write well-rounded characters?” I mean, it’s not like I have a process for it. I used to stumble on these templates, …
I‘m releasing a few short stories on The Agartes Epilogues on Wattpad. This is a work in progress, so expect more over the coming weeks. Some of these, notably Jagged Slate on Blue and The Griffon’s Requiem, are pretty old. I’ve updated them to fit the current lore (yes, I heard myself, and yes, I’m …
When I say writer, I, of course, mean creative writer, the kind who works with fiction and has tea-parties with make-believe personalities. The cliff is typically the point where you no longer have to make the decision between burger-flipper and writer. Yes, you may earn slightly less as a writer in the long run, but at least …
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Fellow writers are some of our worst enemies. I remember way back when I decided I was going to stop writing Watership Down fanfiction, over 13 years ago. I wrote a 150,000 monstrosity that I later had the misfortune pleasure of turning into Jaeth’s Eye. I had not written original fiction for years leading up …
A quick thought, as I progress through my day: how do you keep your sanity when your writing starts to hit too close to home? The Agartes Epilogues is often funny, sprinkled with a lot of my characteristic black humour, but it is also deathly serious–perhaps one of my most serious novels. The themes run deep. Poverty. …
