I‘m bored and procrastinating, so I wanted to play a bit and dissect the opening line of The Wolf of Oren-yaro. They called me “bitch”, the she-wolf, because I murdered a man and made my husband leave the night before they crowned me. I don’t like wasting words. The rare exception is in dialogue or introspection, …
Ichi rok Sagar, Five voices in Fuyyu, An Orenar, An aron dar Bara-Onni, a poet, a scribe, and an accountant. Silence them. Reshiro Ikessar This political drama, and more in The Agartes Epilogues.
I wrote about this a while back, where I talked about Jaeth’s Eye, Book 1 of The Agartes Epilogues, as being a “short” fantasy novel at approximately 118k words. Aina’s Breath, Book 2, finished at 128,600 words. I expect I’ll end up cutting a few hundred more words before the final edits. Sapphire’s Flight, the third book, is going …
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 …
