Tag: mirror’s gate
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Finally, some more words
I’ve been frustrated enough with my months-long block on regular writing that I figured tonight I should try the multi-novelling trick. That’s helped in the past, and I felt it was long past time to try it again, just for the sake of advancing some pointers on various works on progress. I’ve mentioned before how…
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Quick word count update
Not much to report on this; this is mostly just me trying to kick myself back into gear yet again and write whatever words I can manage to coax out of my brain! Still in Chapter 1 on Mirror’s Gate, and working on the scene where Yevanya arranges to sell her old house with her…
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Word catchup
Just to quickly cover the rest of the words I wrote on Mirror’s Gate while at Conflikt, this quicky post! A brief snippet from Aleksi’s POV is now in place, although I think I’m going to have to work on that in the second draft. That snippet may actually need to be an entire chapter.…
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There goes my amateur standing
Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to report that as of this evening, I have received royalties for my writing for the very first time in my writing career. Actual money for my actual words is now in my possession. It ain’t much, I grant you–I am, after all, a micropress ebook author–but it’s evidence…
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Bone Walker has a contender
It looks like Christopher and Elessir are suddenly going to have to fight with the male lead currently known as Aleksi for my word count love. Mirror’s Gate got its first official words tonight, since three chapters’ worth of outline is enough to get me started and this story really wants out of my brain.…
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My muse is liking this a lot
Another productive round of brainstorming with has let me flesh out several aspects of the main characters of Mirror’s Gate, although the proper names of most of them have not yet clicked into place. But I know quite a bit more about my hero and heroine now, and at least about their oldest child and…
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I do believe this is a story
That dream I had over the weekend hasn’t let me go, and thanks to some fine, fine brainstorming from , I now actually have the working core of what’s promising to be a new fantasy novel for me to work on. The working title for now is “Mirror’s Gate”, and the core concept is this:…