Category: Writing Process
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Confessions of a Planner
I’ve always heard novelists preach that you have to find a balance between planning and ad libbing. Some of your story needs to be thought out ahead of time. Some of it needs to just happen naturally while you write. In fact, many authors warn about getting stuck in the planning phase, because it can…
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Pronunciations
Update : Updated formatting to current blog standards. First off, sorry for the delay in updates! Adult things got in the way of my posting for a couple days, so I’ll try to make it up to you this week! Now, you may or may not know this, but I’m a perfectionist. I’m also super…
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Falling Into Plot Holes
Update 9/6/23: Updated formatting to current blog standards. Plot holes. It’s what I’m encountering the most right now during the planning process of The Victor’s Blade, and let me tell you, they are a killer. For me as the writer and you as the reader. Sure, parodies like YouTube channels How It Should Have Ended…
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More On The Victor’s Blade and Why It’s a Monster… Beast… Thing.
The Victor’s Blade is about a small-town boy named Jaranin who must solve the riddle of his late father‘s journal. If he succeeds, the book will lead him to the location of his inheritance and destiny: a legendary sword called the Victor’s Blade. The sword, the topic of myths for centuries, is said to grant…