Category: Moon & Sun Series
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The Emerald Sun: Banris the Flea wins a battle
Genna, the cat, Doyati, Yarri, and Dan are in the right place at the right time to see a human army winning their war against Banris… until they aren’t. I had to spend about half an hour setting up my Scrivener file for the new deadlines and writing objectives I’m now working toward — more…
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The Emerald Sun: Chasing the unknown
Today was a tougher day from the storytelling perspective. I don’t actually know what Genna and Dan and Yarri and Doyati and the cat are going to find. They’re running west, and something is waiting, and because of the way my Muse works, I’m going to see it when they see it, and not before.…
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The Emerald Sun: In the hills before trouble
Got 1017 words on The Emerald Sun today, my best day so far. Genna had a revelation just a few minutes ago — she got herself and the other kids out of danger just in the nick of time… but danger is following along in their wake, and danger is waiting ahead. And that’s where I ran…
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The Emerald Sun: Tiny Sneak Peek of the FIRST DRAFT Story Start
Got 753 words on The Emerald Sun today. Not the thousand I was shooting for, but I’m having to step back into a world I haven’t lived in for over a decade, and finding my way is tough. But, in FIRST DRAFT (which… DISCLAIMER: May contain bugs, which WILL change in revision, and for which…
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The Emerald Sun: Walking with Genna this morning
My hour (plus) this morning did not yield a massive wordcount. 556 words total. But in that 556 words, Genna and her voice came back to me, and Genna immediately broke what I’d planned for the first chapter, and did what I did not expect her to do. She lied to the Audiomaerist, in whose…
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Moon & Sun 3: Sketching with words
I started out my workday this morning looking for (and finding) a sketchbook among my many notebooks and blank project books. Followed by staring at the blank pages, with an array of drawing tools in front of me, and with my Muse going, “No, no, no, no, no…” “I need to see these things,” I…
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Outline Finished! The Emerald Sun moves forward…
Short post today. Took a couple hours, but I was on a roll, so I just stuck with it. And I’m delighted to announce that I’ve finished the line-for-scene outline of Moon & Sun 3: The Emerald Sun. Tomorrow I’ll take a day off from writing fiction, and instead work on building some of the…
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Moon & Sun: The Emerald Sun. It begins…
Today is my first day of actual story brainstorming (a combination of plotting, doodling, and talking to myself) on The Emerald Sun. (Reading and noting is done with the books and sticky notes. Brainstorming requires your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard with a sketchpad on the desk in front of…
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Becoming Piers Anthony: The Not-Impossible Dream of 3 Books A Year
A couple of things have changed in my life recently, one of which has been the writing of Dead Man’s Party, my demo novel for the writing class I’m currently building, How to Write a Novel. I’ve been dedicating one concentrated hour or so a week to the writing of the first draft (and a…
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IT’S A SIGN!!! – Moon & Sun Book 3: The Emerald Sun
A long time ago (back in 2006-2008), I wrote two novels I loved and younger readers loved. The Ruby Key: Moon & Sun Book 1 The Silver Door: Moon & Sun Book 2 I’d started work on the third one, The Emerald Sun: Moon & Sun Book 3… And then Scholastic told me they weren’t…