Time and work have devoured this week. I’ve been writing HTRYN lessons, putting together some internet stuff with my father-in-law, working toward my New Year’s resolution, getting the Official Grand Opening of How To Revise Your Novel ready, and trying to relax. I gave up on that last pretty early on, really, and this has been another long week with … Continue reading →
I’m definitely in the middle of the story. I could feel it today while I was writing—the frustration of trying to move the pace forward without doing a huge infodump, the need to get critical concepts onto the page in an entertaining fashion. I’m not sure I succeeded, but I got 648 words of something down, and I did manage … Continue reading →
So. I’m back. Got 2299 words on a worksheet, and another thousand or so on the revision of a lesson, both for HTRYN, but no words on TalysMana. Instead, the rest of my time went into doing my customer service e-mails from the last couple days. I’m caught up on everything that doesn’t require a long reply. Still have a … Continue reading →
I didn’t mention all the holidays in my title… I’m too late for some, a bit early for others, and there are about a hundred of them. I’ll be back for New Year, either the Eve or the Day, when I post my “By-The-Time-I’m-50” Resolution. But I’m taking ALL of next week off. I won’t be writing Lesson 8 for … Continue reading →
Got an e-mail today from a TalysMana reader disturbed by the turn the plot was taking, and afraid that I’m heading toward “people who create bright, happy stories and worlds are good, and people who create dark, scary worlds are bad.” She’d never read any of my work, so as a creator of some really dark novels, (including, by all … Continue reading →
Got 452 words, got the scene finished, and it’s posted to the mailing list. This went well, but it also went dark on me. I managed to scare myself a bit, and the new character in the scene, who came about because of some serious Sweet Spot mapping, is giving me nightmares. I have discovered how he thinks. I’ll get … Continue reading →
I’ve done just over 4000 words today, and am not even close to finished yet. This is the lesson on making sure the worldbuilding in your novel actually works, and it seems to be expanding like a star about to go nova on me. Fiction didn’t happen yesterday, and it clearly isn’t going to happen today. But I did write. … Continue reading →
All caps… Yes. I’m shouting. You know I wanted to come up with some magnificent challenge for myself to pledge as my New Year’s Resolution, to have going in some beginning fashion before I turn 50 in October of next year. And I was standing in the shower just minutes ago, and thinking about TalysMana and Becky’s NOW-limited-to-50-EVER TalysMana Viewer, … Continue reading →
Becky writes: The first piece of Official TalysMana Jewelry is now available – The Taylsmana Viewer. This is the original piece that Kettan receives in the mysterious package at the very beginning of the novel. This is what sets Kettan’s story in motion. I had 30 that I could get shipped and in the mail for Christmas. The first one … Continue reading →
As hinted at in the title, this scene is from Nate’s POV, and is introducing more of the WHY of the whole story…along with adding what I hope are some scary promises to fulfill later on. I got 376 words, and am 11K into the story. It’s running longer scenewise than I’d anticipated, so it may come out longer than … Continue reading →