Category: TalysMana

  • “Write A Book With Me” Is Moving

    First, a note. The Write A Book With Me entries are going to be going to the TalysMana weblog after this entry. If you’re playing or following Write A Book With Me, be sure to bookmark the TalysMana weblog now. Pocket Full Of Words will be going back to the essays, commentary on writing, and…

  • The NEW TalysMana Artifact (and Upcoming Contest)

    Yesterday Becky posted her first rough concept sketch for what the Fendle Warrior’s Heart would look like. I meant to come in here last night and post the link, but after writing 4000+ words of lesson, I was just too fried. Today, though, I wanted to let you know her sketch is up. It’s SO…

  • A nice little cliffhanger

    Since ecto ate my post TWICE now, I’m going to keep this short. Got a spiffy cliffhanger for TalysMana tonight, wrapped the scene, posted it, and some folks may even receive it yet tonight. Most of you who are up to date will get the latest installment on Friday. For everyone else, it’ll be along…

  • Making More Sense of the Story

    I focused on character development in TalysMana tonight, since I was actually giving Will Grey his first real time onstage. Kettan ended up with a few good moments, too. I’m still not to the big bang for the scene, when Will finds out what Kettan’s been up to. But he’s going to be smart getting…

  • Pitch-And-Toss Writing

    I threw out 364 words I wrote last week, and wrote 738 new words on TalysMana tonight. The clue I got while posting my last TalysMana post last week, where I suddenly realized that the story would be more interesting if Bill were present when the next big thing happened, led me to toss everything…

  • Lightcross, Shadowcross

    Got 364 words on TalysMana tonight. I’m back in Kettan’s point of view, and she’s with Bill (the detective from the Broward County Sheriff’s Department), and in a couple of minutes she’s going to have to figure out a way to politely shoo him out of her apartment, because…well, that’s tomorrow night. Tonight, though, she…

  • Character Surgery

    Well, on the bright side, I got 3700 hard-fought words on Lesson 12 of HTRYN. On the dark side, I’m too freakin’ fried to do any fiction. So. How are your words coming along?

  • Retrieving the Lost

    Writing fiction went pretty well tonight. I got 601 words, and wrapped up the scene Interlude: Spinning Back the Reel. Got it posted, so if you’re that far along in the story, it could show up in your mailbox as early as tonight. I’m not sure I’m entirely happy with it. I think there’s more…

  • Spinning Back The Reel

    421 words on TalysMana tonight—it was another interlude chapter, this one taking me into Kettan’s world after she returned to the What Is to make her talysmana to protect her Fendles. Tonight I got as far as showing what happened to them after she left. I have not yet gotten to the point of showing…

  • 3:23 AM. Finished Lesson 11

    No fiction. Lesson 11 is about revising the novel to make it the length it needs to be. The lesson was a bit long. I’m squeaking toward feeling better, but deadlines for HTRYN are carved in stone. So. Tomorrow I hope to have time for fiction. How did your story go?