Writing Fantasy

writingfantasy16

Writing Poll

In promoting yourself, do you plan to use or expand social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

Find or Become a Beta Reader

Follow Me!

A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

Rum and Runestones w/stuart

David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

It’s not just length; stamina matters too.

A late-arriving comment on my Not A Zero-Sum Game rant inspires today’s post (which, to my delight, segues nicely from David’s post yesterday). I mentioned then that THE PRETENDER’S CROWN (which you can, until Thursday, enter a contest to win a copy of over here came in at 171K and 300 hours or so of [...]

Turns Out, Length Really Does Matter….

As with last week’s post, I draw my inspiration for this post from several questions and comments we received from readers dealing with novel length.  In fact, this is something that I’m asked about quite a bit on my personal blogs and at my web site, and most of the questions sound a bit like [...]

There’s Nothing New…

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
(Ecclesiastes 1:9-14 NIV)

A sixth grader approached my desk today, all excited. “You didn’t tell us your next book was ready!” he said, waving a hardcover book he’d pulled from the shelf. I smiled [...]

Pink Elephants, and Rivers, and Gilligan, Oh MY! (And Writing)

 Last week, Christina spoke about dry spells in the area of idea creation:
Some writers say that ideas are just overflowing with them. I’m not one of them. I go through serious dry spells on ideas. And when I do, I try to read other things or watch TV shows to [...]

Creating a web presence

I was going to hit the Topic of the Week, but really, I think David nailed it with yesterday’s post and I can’t think of anything else to add, so I’m going to bring up another question a MW regular asked in email: how, in essence, does one create a web presence? As the reader [...]

Why Divide Your Book Into Chapters?

Thanks to regular visitor and commenter Daniel Davis for again coming up with a question to get us started with this week’s post.  And before I get to Daniel’s question, let me add that we welcome your questions and suggestions for posts you’d like to see.  We often scour our brains for ideas that we [...]