I hit a major obstacle earlier this week but I’ve been slowly building up to my wordcount again and was able to hit 78k words on the manuscript last night. So a bit behind on my schedule–particularly when I realized this was going to go over the target wordcount–but I’ve only got about 32k words …
I talk a lot about the prevailing attitude of ego and self-esteem as I’ve observed in the past couple of decades of hanging out with other writers. Anger and envy run rampant, regardless of success levels. There’s always someone who’s doing better than you, always someone you want to be. Looking inside, as I’ve mentioned …
Read more “The Importance of a Healthy State of Mind — On Writers and Envy, Part II”
One of the scariest things about being a writer is that you have to create something that inevitably, somebody will misunderstand. This has never been more clear to me than when my husband was beta-reading my books. He can be downright critical about some of the character choices, even after I explain them to him in person. …
Read more “The Need to Express vs. The Fear of Being Misunderstood”
This is written on November 9, because, obviously. Instead of pouring my heart out on social media or checking articles and news, I chose to write a lot. I ended up with about 3100 words before the morning was over. When my husband was little, he liked to draw comics. One day, his father took …
The Agartes Epilogues is not grimdark. This is something I tell people in the description, because someone who is savvy in the genre of epic fantasy could immediately think this upon reading the Prologue of Jaeth’s Eye. It’s been described by many reviewers as violent, with some sex and some swearing. In epic fantasy, these are usually the signs of …
Read more “Grimdark or Just Honest? On Epic Fantasy and the Tendency Towards Gratuitous Violence”
