Author Archives: David

I wanted to make sure I had a good word count for my first weekly check-in and I think I did that. Week one churned out 4,224 words – almost as many as I started with. As I wrote before, more »

On this day, Saturday, the 25th of February 2012, I declare the writing to commence! As indicated in the title, the goal is 50,000 words (minimum). Since I did start writing this a while ago, I already have the also more »

These words of wisdom were provided by author Michael Stackpole concerning the approach for a first draft: “You need to turn off your self-editor for the first draft. Perfection is what you get in your 2nd, 3rd, 4th drafts. Your more »

The final item on author Holly Lisle’s list, that I need to address, is “know your conflict.”  As I was reading and considering this, I realized I have an advantage on this aspect. As I mentioned before, I’ve spent my more »

This particular topic is pretty straight forward.  Holly Lisle has this to say about the voice of the story: “For salable novels, you need to resign yourself to either first person or third person … second person, the voice so more »

I am happy to say that I sat down, tonight, with a determined and focused mind – ready to hammer out more of my character descriptions – and I finished them!  I mentioned before that I have 6 characters. One more »

Uh oh!  It has been much longer between entries then I deem acceptable. But life, sometimes, has it’s own ideas and delights in tossing you the random speed bump.  Time to rectify that! I am still in the process of more »

The next step I thought I should move on to is “Know your characters.” In addition to the suggestions made by author Holly Lisle, author Michael Stackpole also offers very important advice on character development – which I will get more »