Recent content by luthierwnc

Not a main driver but the books have the complete world-building model. They also inform a lot of the government's military and special ops efforts. My problem is that I thought this out backwards. Lately I've been trying to condense three long trips into two. That hasn't worked so I'll...

Thanks. Oh, just signing my name. I'm a Skip too. sh

It's a head-scratcher. CupofJo; The three chapters are both backstory and critical objectives for secessionists in the region. Each is a summary in the present-day tongue of a much larger work written in a dead language. All were hastily copied by the scholastic order knowing the ruling...

Hello all and thanks for looking. I'm working on my second series of novels. The first was a fan-fic piece that came out pretty well but is way too long. The second is original. In creating the world I wrote three chapters (about 18k words) that are summaries of three historical books...

Thanks for looking. My hiatus on the is open-ended depending on progress on the thriller. Cheers, sh

The Excel list is also so I don't repeat names or make them too similar. Even more important; it's so I don't use a throw-away name on a character who later becomes important. Guy walks into a bar -- you're furiously writing and need a couple names for the mercenary and the smuggler waiting at...

I've only written two things so far but they are huge with hundreds of characters. To help, I run an Excel sheet as I write with character and place names, new nouns and verbs and what they mean, character relationships (son, aunt, wicked uncle), which chapter they're introduced and often where...

Hello all, I'm putting a second draft to bed for a month or two to come at it fresh. In the meantime I plan to read a few well-regarded novels and bone-up on my grammar. I've always read as a pure consumer. While still wanting to enjoy the books on the list, are there critical reading...

Thanks Prince of Spires. Formatting is still a work in progress. In the past I haven't put titles on the top of the first chapter page until much closer to the end. I do save them in the folder with a working title preceded by the number/letter code to get the order right. As often as not...

Thanks gents. Probably looking at a scratch rewrite but still have to get surviving events in the right order. Cheers, sh

Hello and thanks for looking. This is long second post but it describes where the skid-marks stop. By way of background; I am an amateur fiction writer who started four years ago. The plan was to write a short fan-fic story based on a 35 second clip of the LOTR extended DVD – something to...

Hi All, I've been writing in this genre for almost four years now and have enjoyed it. No muse problems. I started writing a fan-fiction short (first fiction ever) based on half a minute of the LOTR extended first disk -- a rainy weekend project. It ended up being six volumes. The one I'm...