Wanted to drop by and share something interesting with all of you about what I’ve been learning lately.
So, in the first version of ARGENTUM, I wanted to explore the world of the Violet War and needed a story to do it. Did my first draft make an excellent novel? NO. Why? Because the story [...]
For those of you who were here for much of the first draft, you know that I had employed a writing technique where I wrote a chapter and then offered a piece of the main character’s memory as the chapter break. The memories in the work are exceptionally important to the plot. Believe me when [...]
Did you know that March was named after Mars, the Roman god of war? Well, this month I’m declaring war…on my manuscript! After going through a few drafts, there are a couple of things I need to revise:
1) The overall story needs to be consistent and a lot more simplified so that it can stand [...]
Hi folks,
In December, I focused on the revisions for ARGENTUM through a December Writing Marathon that I had come up with. December was an extraordinarily busy month for several reasons, including a few additional projects that I did not expect to come up. Even though I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to, [...]
After I got all excited about my spectacular “Chapter One,” I ended up revising a short story that needed some work and stumbled across different submission guidelines for various markets. I took one look at the formatting guidelines and went… “Uh-oh…ARGENTUM does not look like that…”
So, I went ahead and formatted it differently using a [...]
When I started working on revisions for the novel back in the Spring, I knew I was going to have to make some adjustments in my schedule.
Before I started ARGENTUM, I often worked on a contract basis, which meant that someone handed me a contract and I said, “Okay, I’ll write for you.” Then, [...]
If you’ve been following along as I wade through revisions, you might have heard me talking about how I keep going back to Chapter One.
Well, I went back to it again. And again. And again.
Why?
When I re-read the chapter, I felt like I was puking information on the page instead of telling you [...]
Hi everyone,
After coming back from GenCon, I had a few other people contact me about licensing the Violet War setting for a potential game. I took a break from revisions and started mapping out this very. big. world.
I just stopped.
You see, I really love this story and although I’m pretty excited that there’s an [...]
So if you’ve been following how Argentum has been developing, you’ve probably read a post or two where I describe a little bit about my writing process. Well, this past weekend at OddCon, there were a lot of conversations that I had with other writers about their writing process. When I mentioned I was offering [...]
One of the things that’s a lot of fun writing for Argentum, is that I can offer you my first draft before any revisions are made. Some writers might find this a bit scary, but I don’t. You see, I really enjoy reading how a script or book evolves, and I’m happy I can share [...]