Well, it took much longer than I’d hoped. But I’m finally finished with the red-lines on my manuscript. I’ve also settled on a working title! The second novel in the Renegade’s Legacy series is called – (drum roll please) – The Guardian’s Hand! I’ve even thought of a working title for the concluding volume of [...]
Well, you’ve put it off long enough. You’ve set your manuscript aside, let it collect some dust, forgotten most of the details, and read it with fresh and critical eyes. You’ve scratched down your themes, plot summaries, and character arcs in your little notebook. Now it’s time to wade through your draft manuscript. It’s never [...]
I finished the critical reading step of my revisions a few days ago. Now it’s time to move on to step 2. Author Holly Lisle calls this step Discovery, in her one pass process, and I think that’s as good a name as any. In a nutshell, this is where you remind yourself why you [...]
Revision: the word that makes aspiring authors cringe almost as much as synopsis. No doubt about it, revision is both painful and challenging, but a critical process to master for anyone who dreams of getting published. In previous posts, I’ve already mentioned that I’m a fan of Holly Lisle’s One Pass Revision Process. Renegade’s Door [...]
It’s been a while since my last update, mostly because I’ve been flat out working on the new novel. July has officially started, which means JulNoWriMo is officially underway. My fingers have been flying across the keys. My official JulNo word count was about 2500 words at the end of July 1st, but I actually [...]
After completing my first writing week on my second novel, I turn my thoughts to that all-important element of novel development: the title! Because calling it WIP, or Eliza’s Story somehow lacks the attention-grabbing zing an epic fantasy title requires. And there’s no way I’m calling it Renegade’s Door 2: The Sequel. Any suggestions from [...]
I’m back in the thick of it again. Eliza just couldn’t wait for JulNoWriMo to start. Protagonists can be so pushy sometimes, can’t they? So with the outline, character descriptions, and scene mapping for the sequel to the Renegade’s Door, I started writing again yesterday. The picture to the left is the plot scene tree [...]
283 SC, five days earlier, Starseekers Gathering, in the Great Desert The late afternoon sun was baking the desert air, quickly evaporating the sweat that stuck Mikel’s coarse tunic to his broad back as he worked. Hemp rope handles creaked against heavy wooden crates as he and another teamster loaded the new cargo into the [...]
283 SC, The northern migration three days east of Stoneburners Gathering, in the Great Desert Arrows continued to whistle past overhead intermittently, but Mikel was out the line of fire as long as he stayed beneath the wagon. Of course, keeping him under the wagon was the archers’ objective. It would make the ground force’s [...]
283 SC, fifteen days earlier, Mystic Springs in the Fertile Plains The stars glowered sullenly overhead. Theirs was the only light cast in the long, conspiratorial hours between moonset and sunrise. Mikel avoided even their faint glimmer as he waited in the shadows outside a run down hostel in a run down quarter of the [...]
