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Learning the Characters
Posted on 21 October 2011 | No responses
First off all, yes, I’ve been reading a lot of Lovecraft and R. E. Howard. How’d you guess? This chapter is a bit of homage more to Lovecraft than Howard, granted, but I think there is more room in Tijervyn for the unthinkable and eldritch than for barbarians. It is also more Halloween-ish, and yes I’m a weekend early for that, but whatever. And who knows, perhaps a Conan or Sword and Sorcery-type feel will work its way in. Or perhaps I’ll just write a short to scratch the itch. Whatever. This isn’t what I want to talk about today. What I want to talk about today is Jak and Gust.
Tags: Character Building, characters, Gay, heteronormative, LGBT
Categories: Writing
Burned Out
Posted on 14 October 2011 | 1 response
I am actually rather burned out right now. Not on writing, but more just on thinking. So, no blog. I was going to put up some crazy self-affirming “I am a writer” spiel, but meh. Maybe another day. I was going to put up some deeply philosophical spiel I’ve already wrote about the older Conan the Barbarian movie, but I can’t find it, so I think it is on a different computer. So bleh. So you get me saying “Here’s your chapter! Now get off my lawn!” Or something like that.
I told you I’d get back to Markus! Let’s see how long I can stay writing about him. (hint, he is barely in next week’s chapter.) I’m already starting to wonder if I have things starting to spiral out of control. What’y’all think? To I have too many main characters/major characters? Be honest.
Tags: blogs, characters, filler, plot lines, writing
Categories: Admin Blog
The Store
Posted on 7 October 2011 | No responses
Meister of the Secret Chapter Four: Tools
So, it is now official-like. You can purchase for the low low price of $2.99 the compiled Revenant eBook. You can access the store via the link up top or the ugly link over in the side bar. I put that there hoping it would make April’s brain explode in the ugly and then she’d graphic art me up a good one. You can also use this link.
As of this posting, it is only available on Amazon Kindle, but hopefully sometime next week it will be up on the Nook “PubIt” store as well. A few highlights of the compiled eBook:
- It contains a new Bonus Chapter: “Lessons of Gorlido” that takes place years before the current action and is no plot-essential, but gives you some back story on one of the characters.
- The new chapter has two whole new panels of art.
- The book is edited! Not professionally, but I went through all the chapters again and re-read them and corrected a handful of continuity mistakes and I caught quite a few typos I made, including the most embarrassing Winch/Wench goof. There are no major changes, though, so don’t expect me to reference something in Meister of the Secret that you haven’t been able to read in the online version of Revenant.
- Both Kindle and Nook versions are DRM free. I mean, I already offered all this stuff up for free, right? As I see it, this is like you donating to me.
I have some other “give me money” ideas working right now, including a way to sell high-res prints of the art and a dead-tree version of the book. I’ll keep you posted.
Tags: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, eBook, ePub, Kindle, mobi, Nook, store
Categories: Admin Blog
The Horrifying Lure of the Deep
Posted on 30 September 2011 | 3 responses
Meister of the Secret Chapter Three.
All around is darkness, and who knows what lies in it. Your high power flashlight barely penetrates the gloom, and you could swear you see something moving. Life should not be here, yet somehow, it is. Where are you? Millions of miles away in the cold depths of space? A thousand miles lost in a massive, dank, lifeless cavern? No, you are merely a few miles away from the normal. You are on the ocean floor.
Why is it that nearly a quarter million miles away (the surface of the moon) is more acceptable and less terrifying than five miles below the water? Why does the claustrophobia of a deep-sea submarine weigh in more than the endless vacuum of space that has honestly less material between you and it? And why can we talk about putting astronauts on the surface of Mars as a feasible, decade-attainable goal, but setting up a space-station like research facility or mining/living operation even a few miles down in the ocean is still a complete idea of science fiction? It isn’t just because we don’t want Cthulhu to eat us.
Tags: Cthulhu, Horror, John Wyndham, Lovecraft, The Kraken Awakes, weird tales
Categories: Writing
Posted on 23 September 2011 | No responses
So, Facebook has been in the news lately. Granted, this social network isn’t exactly about writing, but I’ve never been too hard and fast on this being exclusively a blog about writing. I will make a tangent somewhere along the way, I promise. In fact, I’ll make it at the very beginning. Facebook was stopping me from writing Wednesday night, and I turned it off, along with Twitter, Google+, and even my email. The only thing I kept open was AIM/MSN, and no one bothered me there. Suddenly, my writer’s block vanished and 1500 words appeared on my screen. It was magical. So, was I just distracted? Well, yeah, but there is more I want to say. Below the break.
Tags: distraction, Facebook, Google+, overcoming writer's block, Twitter, writer's block
Categories: Writing