I've been working on my debut fantasy novel for too long. This will be my seventh and last draft. There will be beta reading and editing, but I'm never writing this thing from scratch again. Seven drafts are enough, even if a couple of them were not complete. I've written 40,000 words on this latest... Continue Reading →
NaNoWriMo is Over. Get Back To Work
I read and commented on the post Friendly Monsters: NaNoWriMo on WorldWeaverPress.com, written by guest blogger Kristina Wojtaszek. Kristina tells us that she didn't participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I commented that I hadn't either. NaNoWriMo is shorthand for National Novel Writing Month. It could just as easily stand for National Nonsense Writing Month. The... Continue Reading →
Fire and Magic
Some of my visitors have seen this essay before. It is posted on writing.com, but I've added to it since the last time I mentioned it to my fellow Tunnels and Trolls fans, and some people who have started visiting The Troll Mystic more recently may not have seen the original essay. I post the... Continue Reading →