I envision a scene in my head first then write. The more vivid the pictures in my mind, the easier it is for me to write. Of course, this method comes with drawbacks. If my mental vision is muddied, I struggle putting words down. My descriptions also tend to rely on visual cues more than [...]

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It’s pretty rare to find a stand-alone fantasy novel anymore. Fantasy fiction tends to come in sets: trilogies, episodic series, or some epic number of volumes. Part of this is marketing, the building of a brand and fostering reader loyalty to that brand. The artist in me prefers to think of it in terms of [...]

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It’s important, from time to time, to stop and do a self-assessment of the direction your life is taking: personally, professionally, spiritually. Are you investing your resources in the areas that you really want to? Are you making progress toward the goals you set six months ago? A year ago? Five years ago? The past [...]

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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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Well, I didn’t keep up my January pace on Shattered Amulet, but I did get some other writing done. “Relvan’s Rescue” got rejected by the second pirate anthology. I have to admit that the pirate element is secondary to the story, so I’m not surprised. I plan to submit it to some general fantasy markets [...]

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