I finished the rewrite of “Relvan’s Rescue” on Friday. The manuscript sits just shy of 11,400 words. That’s almost 4,000 words more than the original version I submitted to several markets a year ago. The story is in the hands of some beta readers, one of whom has been tasked with trying to find ways [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Writing Journal'
Beta reading before submitting
Filed under Writing Journal on May 12, 2009
Tagged: beta readers, critique groups, Janner Kohl, Relvan's Rescue
Superhero stories without pictures seem less super
Filed under Writing Journal on May 5, 2009
Tagged: comic books, novels, superheroes
I’ve been reading comic books about as long as I have fantasy fiction novels. My dad bought me my first comic book, a Superman and Plastic Man team-up, when we moved from New Jersey to Iowa the summer after second grade. I spent many summer days after third grade with my face buried in a [...]
Serial fantasy fiction at Paths of Adventure
Filed under Writing Journal on April 28, 2009
Tagged: fantasy fiction, flash fiction, serial fiction
Serial and flash fiction are popular formats among online markets like Mindflights or Laser & Sword. The short length makes them an easy read on a web page, and in the case of serials, a natural hook to draw traffic back to the site time and again. I’ve toyed with the idea of publishing fantasy [...]
A peek at the new “Relvan’s Rescue”
Filed under Fiction, Writing Journal on March 26, 2009
Tagged: fantasy fiction, Relvan's Rescue
Posting old fantasy fiction can be an exercise in humility for a writer. I often cringe as I read through previous versions of stories from early in my “career”. If I can see an improvement in craft, however, it makes the embarrassment easier to bear. You’ve had a chance to read the opening scene from [...]
How one woman rocked Relvan’s Rescue
Filed under Fiction, Writing Journal on March 24, 2009
Tagged: Janner Kohl, Relvan's Rescue
Lady Touvree Temmere is Janner Kohl’s love interest in “Relvan’s Rescue”. She was a bit player in the version of the story I submitted to various markets early last year, a few lines of conversation in the third scene that alluded to a shared past. Her part now would be considered leading lady material, a [...]
