Also known as “Things I discovered I hate about my novel from editing it for a week”. The Title: “Princess” just sounds trite, and overly shortened. But I really can’t decide on something better. I do know that “The Librarian Chronicles” is perfect for the trilogy, but the first book remains in Name-Limbo. The entire [...]
~by Lia Wolff
20
Dec
Tags: dragon, editing, Narrator, parenthetical interjections, princess, procrastination, telling-not-showing, title
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13
Dec
Well, it seems to have been an interesting week, so I thought I would spend today catching up on the news. Next week we will continue with the regularly scheduled content. On the internet front, there was the hulabaloo kicked up by Mr. Scalzi’s criticism of Black Matrix publishing. His first post on the subject [...]
Tags: Black Matrix, Canadian SF writer, editing, internet furor, news, Peter Watts, police brutality, princess, Scalzi
29
Nov
“It is not the beginning of the end, merely the end of the beginning.” These words are particularly appropriate this week, as I finish out Nanowrimo. Tomorrow is the final day, at which time I will have my very first finished novel. Of course, I say finished, but as stated above, this is an illusion. [...]
Tags: alternate history, Bookewyrme, Brittania, dragon, Durham, Dwarf, Elves, gods, Hermaphroditus, King, Nanowrimo, novel, Prince, princess, story, synopsis, Valkyrie
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