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I won’t be writing about it anymore here. Will keep my thoughts on it to my own blog.
A new chapter of “The Prophet” should go up tonight hopefully.
Good writing!
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As I was typing out the most recent chapter (Chapter 7) in The Prophet, I started noticing a few issues. These weren’t grammatical (although they probably exist and I just can’t see them), but deeper.
How does the character know this?
Can the character really make that leap?
Are there too many hints being dropped? Too much [...]
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My own stupidity (or eagerness, heh) seems to come and go in waves.
At the moment, I’m at the crest of the wave. Had a big family weekend, and completely forgot about updating Taels last night (Sunday). Work is busy, both salary and my company.
Am working on the new “The Plastic Detectives” website. Found a [...]
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So I’m sitting at work, finding problems like User editable base data being forced into harcoded logic, at my day job, when it hits me. I didn’t put the latest chapter of “The Prophet” up last night.
Apologies!
It will ensue shortly.
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How much information do you put into a chapter?
How do you present the information? A single way? Many ways? Through a character’s voice, through events, through other characters?
At what point does the brain switch off because too many new things have sought it’s attention?
Writing this chapter out for posting tonight brought these questions up [...]
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Have just posted Chapter 4 of The Prophet - Part 1. It’s main content was taken from a conversation I heard while sitting in a coffee shop. Actually, in a book shop which had a Gloria Jeans.
Now this may sound a little bit like privacy invasion, but I was taken with the words being [...]
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Late posting of the Daine Stevens chapter, apologies. I’ve been unwell. Copious amounts of goo and tissues and wotnot. Joy.
In my delirium I feel poetic.
Writing is joy and sorrow mixed together.
Writing is excitement and boredom.
Writing is a job like the other jobs.
Writing is a holiday like any of those family holidays.
Writing is for a [...]
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Chapter 3 of The Prophet is up for viewing. It’s almost a filler chapter, there to move along the plot and introduce some characters and provide foreshadowing .. wait. Isn’t that what happens in any chapter?
I’m thinking that once a story is finished here, the segmented stories, I might dissect them in blog posts. Examine [...]
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I’ve always written stories. Hardly ever finished, but there’s always been something belting around my imagination.
A few years back I was reading a George RR Martin interview/post? where he says that the best advice he can give is to write every day and to start with short stories.
So I started. The Daine Stevens Mysteries came [...]
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I experimented with changing the font of the stories to "Cambria Math". It looked good in Windows Live Writer (and here’s the Wikipedia page for anyone who cares), but then on sending it into the wide web, strange things started to happen.
Windows Live Writer is not the most forgiving of editing programs. Especially when you [...]
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