Goodbye Chapter One, I’ll Miss You

→  July 16th, 2009  →  Writing Process

I feel like I turned a corner this past weekend, because the last two weeks have been…painful. I knew I needed to change the verb tense of my exposition from present to past, but I wasn’t sure how that was going to work for the beginning of the story. Instead of opening the novel with [...]

Hooray for Progress!

→  March 1st, 2009  →  Writing Process

Hi everyone, I am very happy to share with you that I’ve made great progress on Book One of the Violet War this weekend. Not only did I map out the entire book and all remaining chapters and chapter breaks, I was able to get Chapter Eleven reworked and published. (Click here to read Chapter [...]

Progress on Argentum

→  August 11th, 2008  →  News & New Releases

At the end of Chapter Three, I stopped posting new chapters for a bit to get some feedback from you, the reader. So far, the most, common remark I’ve gotten through comments and email is that the pacing might be a little off in the beginning, that you have a lot of questions. I’m now [...]