Category Archives: Adventures in Writing

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 »

So far, this story has existed in three places: In my head On this blog The initial writing I did last year While numbers 2 and 3 are great, I figured it was time to move number 1 to something more »

The next topic of development I will write about is the section called “Embrace a theme.” In Holly Lisle’s summary of this topic, she starts by saying: “Know whether the story you are writing is about good versus evil, or more »

This quote was passed along, via twitter, and it was worth sharing here: “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost I’m not planning on more »

Continuing on with the “Know your world” section … So, this is supposed to be a detailed description of the world in which the story takes place.  While I’m anticipating that the majority of this story will take place on more »

Okay, so I know I said in post #3 that I would be continuing the “Know your world” development, but I had a discovery last night that was important to document.  It dealt with the overall idea I had for more »

Starting with the first item on Holly Lisle’s list: “Know your world.” If you click on the title of this item, it will take you to a mapping workshop which – after reading – I felt this would be a more »