Look! More metaphors! I’m embarking on edits for The Ikessar Falcon after receiving feedback from my last beta-reader, and it’s been a world of hurt. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate brutal feedback from a few select people. I wouldn’t have gotten this far if I didn’t embrace the idea of tearing my work apart and then …
I like making elaborate metaphors when it distracts me from actually having to write anything. Announcing my daily writing progress is my way of making myself stick to it. It’s a brain hack. Because writing is very hard, but I don’t like breaking promises. So I stick to it, even if it means writing way …
It’s now 2018, and I’m 16k words into The Xiaran Mongrel, the finale of my Annals of the Bitch Queen trilogy. This is going to be divided into two acts, each at around 90-100k each, so…quite a doorstopper. Anyone who has finished The Agartes Epilogues know I take finales very seriously. Not only do plotlines have to come …
Early this year, I wrote a short story which was a better way for me to express what I’ve felt over the last year–the last eighteen months, really–than screaming at people. I published the rest of my The Agartes Epilogues trilogy in spring, a move which has caused a lot of confusion (as if the series …
This is a scheduled blog post. I am hoping by the time it publishes itself, I would have finished the first draft of my…I’ve lost count of the actual number, but what will be the seventh book I’ve completed with the intention of publishing (but because of weird scheduling issues will be the sixth out). …
