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As a follow up from the “When is your book done?” blog post, I wanted to expand on writing series. When you are writing a single novel it is can be a bit easier to define a beginning, middle and ending. Knowing the answers to these questions is more challenging when...
Writing fiction is a lot of fun, you can make up anything your heart desires. Your imagination can go to the most obscure places and conjure new concepts for readers to enjoy. If you want to have nanobot monkeys, you can. If you want a wand that mutates people into...
First off, let’s acknowledge the fact that I haven’t been very inactive on the blog in the past couple of months. This is for good reason! April and May have been heavily focused on promoting Mental Damnation: Reality across Alberta, British Columbia and in the...
Check out the YouTube channel Spilling Ink's episode about Publishing Choices I was a guest on. Swashbuckling Femme Fatal author Nabila Fairuz and Horror aficionado Konn Lavery weigh in on the biggest question in publishing. Do you opt for traditional or chose the...
If you are writing a novel with a lot of unique creatures, worlds, languages or technologies it is highly important to keep track of the lore. Fans love reading into backstory so you want to be sure you are consistent with the history. You can keep track of it through...
This month ScifiAndScary.com offered me the opportunity to be a guest blogger and discuss the horror genre. Fits with the theme of Halloween. With this article, I focused in on the genre itself and how it tends to be written off as just frights and gore. It's more got...
Welcome to the final part of the 3 part miniseries titled Want to Write a Fiction Novel? In the first post, we looked at creating the premise for your novel, thinking from a 5,000 foot view. In the second part we discussed plot outlines, looking at the general...
In the previous post, we looked at the premise of a novel. This is a very important step, it doesn’t take a lot of time to do and it can save you a ton of headaches down the road. The post also mentioned to put the brakes on before diving too deep with the writing,...
So you’ve decided that you want to write a book, congratulations! That’s a big commitment. Do you already know what your book is about? If you have this one figured out then you are off to a good start. Or perhaps you have always enjoyed writing but have never been...
