Take notes because by Book 3 you’ll barely remember what happened in Book 1. My series is almost done and I’m trying to recall every conflict to make sure I address them. List all your characters’ names, ages and appearances. Many times I revisited Book 1 because I didn’t remember if a character had black…
Thanks for your comments on my previous post Beta Readers. Gave me something to think about. +Damien Boath also suggested I divide my 200,000+ word manuscript into several books. It stuck with me. It’s an excellent idea! I’ve been trying to figure out how and if this will work with my series. I’d love for…
I haven’t been this excited in awhile! I said before I work for my mom’s new publishing company, Aubey LLC. She’s also my publisher! We’ll have a booth at BookExpo America this year. First time exhibiting. So awesome! For the expo, I designed a poster promoting my book coming out next year. The book’s titled The Sciell…
First of all, you guys are all awesome! Thanks for voting! It was an interesting battle. And the winner is… The Rogue So, why did I want you to pick an image? The main race of beings in my series has a mark on them. It’s like a tattoo or a brand they get when…
In my last post, Writing a Dark Fantasy Series, I said I was playing with Abode Photoshop to help me visualize my world. My first two tries were a miss. I wanted to make a birds-eye view of my villages but that was a big undertaking for someone who’s never used Photoshop. So, I went…
The Bridge by Gate-to-Nowhere Working on two (or three) novels at a time usually means you don’t finish any of them, at least for me it does. I discovered though, for a Dark Fantasy series, you kinda have to work on all the books at once. Or, at the very least, have a firm grasp…
You’d think after writing and reading for so many years, writing a novel would get easier. It doesn’t, at least for me. I should’t have expected it to. I like to experiment with my stories- with format, with character relationships with their abilities. It’s fun but it creates entertaining problems. Back to the world building journal. The second novel in…
Ever have a story idea that just stuck with you? You write the story then, months or years later, you reread it and…it’s garbage. Instead of using it for spare parts like the others, you start over. You repeat this until you’ve rewritten the same story maybe four or five times. The characters didn’t ensnare…
As I said in Novel Planning, I’d no desire to turn any story into a series but then I thought about it. A series is perfect because my characters in three different drafts, Feast, Isolated, and Nothing, are of the same race and the stories all have the same themes. I didn’t even do it…
Once again, I’ve got another novel in my head- that make’s six now: 1 series (3 novels), half a series (2 novels) and the first of another series. Usually, when I finish a novel or short story I wonder, just for fun, how it would go if I continued it. Most of the time, nothing…
