I’ve decided to set aside Maiden for the next 30 days (or less) and write my RotD2 story. I’m at a good stopping point: halfway done with the book and about to start Chapter 7. I wrote the first 250 words of the short story Monday night before going to bed. More importantly, I’ve nailed [...]
Switching gears
Filed under Site News, Writing Journal on June 9, 2004
Tagged: Forgotten Realms, Maiden of Pain, Realms of the Dragons II
Research and fiction writing
Filed under Writing Journal on June 7, 2004
Tagged: Forgotten Realms, psionics, Realms of the Dragons II
I started working on my short story for RotD2 yesterday. I actually didn’t do any writing, just research. It’s funny how much reading I’ve done prior to writing any of the FR stuff. I hated research papers in school, and swore, much like algebra, that I’d never do anything in the real world that used [...]
More dragons, sooner
Filed under Writing Journal on June 3, 2004
Tagged: Forgotten Realms, Maiden of Pain, Realms of the Dragons II
I mentioned earlier that my editor had emailed to inform me that the release of Realms of the Dragons 2 was going to be pushed up. A couple days ago he got back to me with an exact date. The anthology, featuring many of the finalists from the Maiden of Pain open call, will be [...]
A preview of me
Filed under Writing Journal on May 24, 2004
Tagged: Bioware, fan fiction, Forgotten Realms, Neverwinter Nights
A couple months back, I got a request to read a sample of my work from one of the guys in the writing group I’m part of at Forward Motion. I had a short story that I was working on and was going to post for critique in our private forum, but tabled it when [...]
And the winner is . . .
Filed under Writing Journal on April 6, 2004
Tagged: Forgotten Realms, gnomes, Maiden of Pain
Heard back from Phil today on my short story synopses for the WotC anthology, and a Maiden of Pain follow-up is out. He made a good point that even though the anthology will hit shelves a few months after my novel, it would still have a huge spoiler potential because the story is set after [...]
