Multiple POV characters is like having ten voices in your head. I’m worried I got the voices mixed up. Or worse, they all sound the same. Writing ten POV characters is tiring. Sometimes I just throw stuff in because I don’t want to deal with them. In the editing stages, how do you make sure…
A career molds how a character views the world. For instance, writers see stories in everything. I use job and career interchangeably because, in my series, the word career doesn’t exist. In The Sciell, I didn’t have to worry about careers. The characters lived in a small community. They didn’t have any career aspirations. Most…
Almost finished the world map and the new map of Jael. I just need to add darker boundary lines. Jael is the main province (land) in the series. Book 1, The Sciell, was set in only two places- De’Ray and Raesul. The characters didn’t care about the rest of the land. In Books 2 and 3,…
I’ve talked a lot about magic powers. I love, love giving my characters powers. Making their abilities realistic can be a pain. I talked, in general, about powers in the post Fantasy Powers: Magical Beings. Let’s get specific. In The Merging Worlds Series, the characters can use their power to create basic things like shields,…
Here’s the cover for Chains of the Sciell, Book 2 of the Merging Worlds series! For those making covers or any artwork for your book remember, you probably won’t get what you want at the first try. It’s like a first draft of a novel. Your first try at designing a new cover might be…
