Oh, this feels soooooooo good. Here are the stats. 58 chapters 205,000 words I received the green light midway through April. Finished 27 weeks later. Looking at my time records, it took me a total of 345 hours to finish this draft. And the lion’s share was new stuff. This took less time than it normally
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Had a delightful time delivering “Story Lessons from the Hunger Games” at the annual conference for the Utah chapter of RWA up in Park City. Especially enjoyed delivering a sweet dream telegram involving waxed chests 🙂 Here’s the PDF as promised: Story Lessons from the Hunger Games RWA 2011
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I just finished chapter 50 and am heading into the climax sequence. I have only 9 chapters left, and they should go fast. Right now I’m at 170,000 words. I’m going to finish a little over my target word length, but I don’t think it’s anything I can’t edit back down. In this book, Talen has to deal
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I believe that there are three things you need to know to write stories. The better you know them, the better and more stories you’ll be able to write. Those three things are: 1. What stories do, i.e. what you’re trying to do as an author. 2. The principles of how character, setting, problem, plot, and
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Holy smokes! I just saw that Amazon put SERVANT on sale. I don’t know when this started, but they have the mass market paperback listed for $1.75. That’s cheaper than I can buy it! http://www.amazon.com/Servant-Dark-God-Tor-Fantasy/dp/0765362309/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1315490465&sr=8-1 Maybe the Dark God had something to do with it . . . Something else of note happened this week. I
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