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    What does your editing proces look like?

    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...
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    How can I stop editing previous chapters?

    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...
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    Describe your magic system

    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...
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    Does anyone else feel bad When they have to Kill off their Characters?

    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...
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    On Character Voice

    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...
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