Over the last two weeks, I’ve finally started in on a project that’s arguably long overdue: a complete, tear-down rewrite of my first completed novel, still provisionally titled The Shadow of the Ruin. The first manuscript was written between January 2013 and August 2018, at a staggering 222,500 words. A partial rewrite, aiming primarily at…
One of the most difficult elements of plotting any work of creative storytelling is to create a believable sequence of events that tells your story. High budget Hollywood movies and big name video game studies aren’t immune to it. I’m not going to name any names, but I’m sure you have a few examples in…
Before I started writing seriously, I had a clear image in my mind of what writer’s block was. It’s when you don’t have any ideas to write about, right? Well, that wouldn’t be a problem for me! I had all these cool things I wanted to get to, ideas and characters that had been swirling…