Day 2 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
I decided to do this one live since it’s four in the morning and this day has given me some trouble. I spent the afternoon honing out the sections I had trouble with the night before, only to go back and not really like what I’d done. I don’t know if it’s the concept of what I’ve added or my execution, but I decided to leave it for now and move on. Tonight didn’t go much better, much as I hate to admit it. I got started around midnight and couldn’t find the flow of things, worse, I kept second guessing what I had and where I was going. That led to me trying to get organized. I storyboarded some concepts (which helped) and wrote some things out in a notebook (which helped some more) and then looked over the chapters I had looking at the work it would take…
Day 1 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
The first day and, as expected, I’m a little bit behind, a little bit ahead. Something I forgot to do in my post yesterday was discuss what all I’m looking at, or even how far along the story is. Dean Wesley Smith has been doing a daily writing log for the past six months or so, that’s what gave me the idea for this in the first place, but he mainly focuses on word count. He’s a big believer in the one draft, beginning to end style of writing. There is A LOT to take away from that, I should have finished this six months (if not a year) ago. I’m still developing as an author though (I think having a full time day job, child, and wife in nursing school has also played its part) and there have been many story and plot elements I just didn’t know what to…
10 Days
That’s how long I have to finish the rough draft of FayTown Calling. Why am I telling you that? Because I’m going to record my progress here. Let me lay this out in detail. I’m off work, ten days of wide open time to write and create, time I intend to use its full extent. The first third is pretty much done, enough that I’d be happy to let someone read it. The second third is rough but will really only need some polish. It’s that last third that’s going to be the tough part. Does this mean FayTown Calling will be out in June? No, sorry. After I’m “finished” there’s a good bit of editing that will need to happen. Not polish, I intend to polish it as best I can in these ten days as well, but still a lot of work to make sure it is presentable. It will however…
FayTown Calling Cover Reveal
My cover artist just completed the FayTown Calling cover. That doesn’t meant the book is out yet, but now I have a big incentive to get going with it.
FayTown Calling
A reader emailed me over the weekend asking about the next novel (If you heard a high pitched sound, it was me squealing like a schoolgirl). I’ve been looking for an excuse to do this, so I am going to go ahead an announce Virgil’s next story. Book 2 will be title FayTown Calling. This is the blurb: In Sorcerer Rising, Virgil McDane chased the Arcus, found its end, even lived to tell the tale. Now he has returned home to build his life anew, a Sorcerer in skill as well as name. But his world is a dangerous one and it has not let him go yet. He has ventured across the world, seen arcane civilizations and supernatural entities, but Mare City itself will prove an even greater challenge. In a world filled with monsters and magic, his home is no exception, and by far its most mysterious aspect…
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