I graduated with my Bachelor’s in the summer of 2003 and won the Maiden of Pain open call in the fall. I spent the next year writing that novel. After a short break, I returned to Logan Shadowhand and the story I was now calling Shattered Amulet.
Maiden taught me a lot and I wanted to [...]

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I wrote about 14 pages of the original manuscript featuring Logan Shadowhand in the time between my senior year in high school and when I met my wife. It sat in a folder until after we got married. When I pulled it out again, I knew the story needed some serious work.
My first change was [...]

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I first attempted to transform Logan Shadowhand from a roleplaying game character into a literary hero about 15 years ago. He’s evolved quite a bit since then. I still have copies of those early manuscripts, some in hard copy and some in electronic. At Ravyn’s request, I’m going to share pieces of them with you [...]

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Inspired by Lukahn’s comment in yesterday’s post about Microsoft Surface:
The doorbell rang and everyone yelled “Come in!” The door swung open and Danny sauntered in, his tote bag swinging from his shoulder.
“Hey, guys. Hope you saved some pizza for me?” Danny plopped down in the space reserved for him on the couch. He rifled through [...]

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Stuart Etter posted a meme back in March where he previewed an excerpt from page 123 of his Work In Progress (WIP). The meme stated to post page 23 if you hadn’t made it that far. After reading his blog, I thought I’d post page 23 from Shattered Amulet, and promptly forgot to (probably after [...]

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