The Breadcrumbs Method
Anyone I've talked to about writing has heard this one before. When I write, I lay out a trail of breadcrumbs as I go. When Hansel and Gretel did it, things didn't work out so well for them, but that was because a bunch of birds were jerks and ate them all. I don't...
Mommy, Where Do Twinborn Come From?
What does "twinborn" mean? The twinborn are those who exist in two worlds. Much as Tellurak and Veydrus are linked as worlds, largely mirrors of one another, but differently shaped by their histories, so are those who exist in both. They are identical twins in body,...
Idioms: Friend or Foe?
A large element of fantasy is world-building. You are creating a place, in whole or in part, from your imagination, and describing it to your reader. In theory, you could begin your novel with a treatise describing your world and it's history, cultures, geography, and...
Keeping Time: The Calendars of Tellurak and Veydrus
Time passes, but how do we track it? Here on Earth, the English-speaking world is familiar with January through December, with varying numbers of days in each. It's a convoluted system that developed over centuries, but it's also unique to Earth. It only came about...
Firehurler: the Writing Experience
Now that Firehurler is in the final stages of editing, I think it's a good time to reflect back a bit on how I got here. This is the first full-length novel I've ever written, and I can't say whether or not it met my expectations, because I went into the whole thing...