Tag: author
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Spaceship Creation Time
I didn’t accomplish much writing this weekend, but I did spend a lot of time designing spaceships for Peregrina. I can already tell you I’m definitely going for soft science fiction. My fiance is an engineer, and I’ve always been more of a biologist, historian, and geology-type scientist. The hard math is a hard pass.
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Sticking to a Word Count
Writing often involves thinking about how many words we can write. How long should a novel or story be? It’s easy to think in word counts. Most writing platforms count the number of words in a piece. How many words does one type on a document? I suppose we could manually count words those of…
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Stuck in the Middle
I always have trouble with the middle parts of a story and scene. Even reading I tend to get bored easily especially now with tv and social media. But at the same time, the middle can really build or set up crucial parts especially in longer series. It’s great for foreshadowing. Starting other plot devices.…
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Blocked for the Weekend
Happy Tuesday! Hoping this week is more productive then the last weekend. Maybe it’s the summer weather or that my family is on a beach and I’m not but this last weekend writers block hit hard. Like a race car skidding off the track with flames on the wheels. I switched projects. Tried free writing.…
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Written Scenes Too Much Too Little?
Hello! Hope you all are having an excellent start to the week. Going through Klytië’s manuscript, I realized in all the rewrites, I added and removed details for various plot points that don’t actually mean anything. I have little scenes within larger scenes and go from extensive descriptions to barely any. There are some sections…
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My Favorite Podcasts RN
Like I said the other week, I love having white noise but lately I’ve gotten into podcasts. Especially as an easy way to learn tips and tricks while cleaning my apartment or cooking or sketching ideas. So here are some of the ones I’ve really come to enjoy.
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Longer Books & Series Going Out of Style?
I recently read an article about how the average length of published books decreased by about fifty pages. It got me thinking about how longer series that tell a larger story through multiple books retain readership?
Camile Grant 