When I was younger, I managed to read most of the Redwall books by Brian Jacques. If you haven't read them, imagine rodents and other small mammals living around an abbey, fighting wars against vermin. When I think back, I remember a few of the plots pretty well, and the series definitely have some memorable … Continue reading It’s Feasting Time!

I had a plan for today. I was going to write about a writing event that I was attending last night, but that was canceled due to the closure of the meeting place. *sigh* What else to do than continue talking about the election? We all love to see a villain develop. Perhaps the villain … Continue reading The Fate of the Political Supporter

Here is the first thing I ever wrote. I originally called it Intrusion, then Namtillaku. The story (or the first ten chapters, really) came to me one night while I was sleeping. I dreamt that I woke from a nightmare with the ability to alter matter using my blood, and that I was fighting an elemental snake god. It … Continue reading What Lies In Me

Most say that the plot of a story needs action. This is certainly true. Obviously. Yet, I've heard complaints. "There's too much dialogue, not enough action." "Nothing happens in this story, they just talk." These complaints baffle me. Dialogue IS action. Action normally furthers a conflict. Physical action, for example, cannot occur without conflict. Perhaps … Continue reading How Much Talking Is Too Much?

Would you like a preview of Godless, the new book I have begun? Of course you would. But I'm lazy, so writing a preview would be difficult. But oh! What's this? #WIPjoy happened again this month! I already made a post talking about how much I enjoyed WIPjoy back when I used Disbelief Suspended in … Continue reading A Preview of Godless

It is hard. It's hard to keep track of every plot thread you set up as you go through a story. I tend to write without an organized outline, and that makes it even harder. So what about the conflicted feelings of a secondary character? What about the mark that was mentioned as being on … Continue reading Fitting It All Together

A demon that has unknowingly possessed a human. A young man who has a year left to live, and cannot die until that time arrives. A world in which God has died and most be reborn in a human. A trio of youngsters with superpowers that don't work quite right. A boy that finds a … Continue reading Stories Untold

All right, this topic. I have done perhaps two minutes of research, so I'm pretty qualified. Onomatopoeia is interesting. I've seen it used or avoided in writing. I, myself, have used it sparingly without really thinking about it. Surprisingly, when I posted a snippet of my work on a forum, a reader told me that … Continue reading To Onomatopoeia Or Not To Onomatopoeia

Ah, another monthly update-ish thing! Coming in late, of course. I blame wildblow, the writer I mentioned in a previous blog post. I'm done reading his work now, back to business. This week is a week I told myself I would not get excited for. I would not get my hopes up. Now I've gone … Continue reading The Moments of Truth

Characters. What is it that really separates the good from the bad? What characters make the reader salivate over every appearance, cause the reader to psychoanalyze every thought and relate to every action? I don't really know that I could say. However, I've been reading Worm by John McCrae a.k.a. wildbow (Google it if you want a long … Continue reading Whose Story Is It Anyways?