I swear that I have some sort of sleep disorder. I was tired last night, so I went to bed an hour early. I’m now awake; two and a half hours early. Anyway, this is not about my introspection. It’s about character introspection. Our intrepid squad (although they’re not known as that, yet) has beenContinue reading “Introspection”
Category Archives: Writing
Publishing Schedule
Chapters 16 and 17 are “done”. 18, 19, 20 are half-ish. The rest are a paragraph, at most. However, fighting with fonts made me wonder: When could I get this published? My plan is to have the first and second ready-to-upload done before pressing the button on #1. The third will be written before theContinue reading “Publishing Schedule”
Font Search 3
Better, but no. For some reason, that feels Western. I hate this process. It’s so tedious and aesthetically gratuitous. That’s Megalito-Slab-Extra-Condensed, which is supposed a “free” font similar to ENBOK Regular. It’s not free. It’s free to download, but if you use it for anything, you need the commercial license. Even a lot of “freeContinue reading “Font Search 3”
Consider Leaving It Out?
A status update while Monday morning coffee takes effect. Somewhere in the giant mass of posts about writing, I mentioned that I often lose interest in a series around book 10. After some introspection, I realized that this is usually when the “our intrepid hero” story becomes too broad, complicated, and political. I’m finding thatContinue reading “Consider Leaving It Out?”
Overthinking
Words matter, but not every word (I hope). I just spent a minute rewriting this sentence several times: He turned to Frank, who was watching the banter, stunned. Frank is not only “watching” the banter; he’s also hearing it. “observing” would be better. Wait, that means “looking”, too. It doesn’t flow well, either. “watching” itContinue reading “Overthinking”
Whew! They’re Young!
I’ve been having all sorts of debates with myself about political things, criminal justice, etc… All the things that go horribly sideways after an apocalypse. I just noticed something about my characters’ backstories: They’re all young. This is by-design. It’s also the case in almost all action stories for the same reason I chose it:Continue reading “Whew! They’re Young!”
Who Are These People?
My ensemble cast is growing. I swear I outlined backstories for our four intrepid high school age werewolves (nee football players – an idea stolen from Fire From the Sky and every Army recruiter in the last century). I couldn’t remember who came from where and had what. “Open that backstory file,” I thought toContinue reading “Who Are These People?”
So That’s Why: Economics
I just smashed into a barrier far worse than the magic one, which I could smash with handwavium. I now realize that this is why so many LitRPG books either ditch Earth or rebuild it. I’m writing it as post-apocalypse. The same people are still around in the same places – except the dead ones,Continue reading “So That’s Why: Economics”
Version Control?
I was just switching branches at work and the question occurred to me: Should my book be under version control? I have gogs setup inside my VM cluster. I could map a mount point across the host/guest boundary. I haven’t needed it, yet, but that’s the sort of thing one wants setup before one needsContinue reading “Version Control?”
Font Search 2
Told you. For whatever reason, I woke up an hour early. Some WhatFontIs searching during first-coffee… Site info: The links are all to .font files, whatever they are. Many are clearly labeled $ Free (Personal Use). The $Commercial ones are labeled with the source. Adobe is out because they created the PDF format, for whichContinue reading “Font Search 2”
