I graduated with my Bachelor’s in the summer of 2003 and won the Maiden of Pain open call in the fall. I spent the next year writing that novel. After a short break, I returned to Logan Shadowhand and the story I was now calling Shattered Amulet. Maiden taught me a lot and I wanted [...]
Logan Shadowhand: a retrospective (part three)
Filed under Fiction, Writing Journal on September 9, 2008
Tagged: fantasy fiction, Logan Shadowhand, Shattered Amulet
Logan Shadowhand: a retrospective (part two)
Filed under Fiction, Writing Journal on September 2, 2008
Tagged: fantasy fiction, Logan Shadowhand, Shattered Amulet
I wrote about 14 pages of the original manuscript featuring Logan Shadowhand in the time between my senior year in high school and when I met my wife. It sat in a folder until after we got married. When I pulled it out again, I knew the story needed some serious work. My first change [...]
Logan Shadowhand: a retrospective (part one)
Filed under Fiction, Writing Journal on August 26, 2008
Tagged: fantasy fiction, Logan Shadowhand, Shattered Amulet
I first attempted to transform Logan Shadowhand from a roleplaying game character into a literary hero about 15 years ago. He’s evolved quite a bit since then. I still have copies of those early manuscripts, some in hard copy and some in electronic. At Ravyn’s request, I’m going to share pieces of them with you [...]
The evolution of Logan Shadowhand
Filed under Writing Journal on August 12, 2008
Tagged: Chronicles of Jord, fantasy fiction, Logan Shadowhand, protagonists, Shattered Amulet
Logan Shadowhand presented some challenges for me as he evolved from a roleplaying game character into a fantasy fiction protagonist. I had no literary aspirations for the character until I recreated him as a non-player character for one of my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. He and his elf partner (who was also destined to become [...]
Skipping the details
Filed under Tips & Tools, Writing Journal on July 22, 2008
Tagged: descriptions, Logan Shadowhand, Shattered Amulet
I envision a scene in my head first then write. The more vivid the pictures in my mind, the easier it is for me to write. Of course, this method comes with drawbacks. If my mental vision is muddied, I struggle putting words down. My descriptions also tend to rely on visual cues more than [...]
