As a part time amateur trying to hold together three linked books, I think the best description is haphazard and lacking discipline. It’s something I need to improve.
I am a terrible self critic so revise, edit and rewrite without mercy regularly though to keep the momentum going and to remind...
I’m a real novice at this and learning as I go along.
Having written two books and well into the third (all sat in the Cloud until I figure out what to do with them) in what will be a series of five, what I have learned is to have a clear view of start middle and end, but to be very flexible.
I...
How does magic work in your story? Is it common? Could it be learned easily? Who uses it?
In the world I have created, magic is named Essence (I really hope that hasn’t been taken!).
I’ve gone for a traditional model - wielders use a maitrir (staff).
Wielders are born with it randomly.
For...
I think it’s a testament to your passion for your work that makes you feel like that. But ... reality is a hard place and even though stories are fantasy, the people and situations and dilemmas they face are real. If not, the story can lose its core strength - the grab the reader. There had to...
I find my character’s personalities develop and can surprise me as I write. Sometimes I just write the dialogue (which normally requires many revisions) and try to picture in my mind how it sounds.
Then I settle on the voice that feels right. So, for some characters it’s plot, personality...