Over half a year I've been writing on this blog. Over half a year I've been calling myself an 'author', though 'writer' or 'novelist' might have been better terms. Because, as of yet, I still have not published a single book. In the past two years, I have written about 220,000 words, split over a … Continue reading Waiting for the Green Flag

Ever think about the difference between a graphic novel and a novel? They might seem somewhat similar, but I just thought about an interesting element at play, and now I have to post about it. So, in a graphic novel, everything is placed in a two-dimensional image. We can imagine the third dimension, as we … Continue reading Imagination vs. Reality, or Graphic vs. Novel

It's over. The 2016 Election was an amazing script, and kept me guessing until the very end. The epilogue is about to begin, and will most likely last four years. Some of the 300 million characters in this story lost. Some of them won. And now, we deal with the aftermath. A divided nation. It's … Continue reading A United Nation: The Approach of a Writer

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