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…
(Or how to tell if you’re writing too much description.) A lot of things have evolved about my writing since I started out, but my recent project of entirely rewriting my first manuscript to cut more than 50,000 words from its total length has forced me to focus on one of those areas in particular.…
Recently, I had been forced to accept a reality that I had struggled to deny: my manuscript – my beloved, carefully crafted work of six years – was overweight. At two hundred and twenty-three thousand words, it might have passed easily as the work of an established name in the fantasy genre – but debut…
According to Google, the average competent typist is able to write about 45 words per minute, or a whopping 2,700 in an hour. I’m a decent touch typist; nothing special, but certainly not bad. According to a quick test I took online prior to writing this piece, my speed is about 82 words per minute.…
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…