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Chapter Three – Main-ish Characters
At this point I’m thinking that I’ve introduced enough things that I probably need to spend some time on the people doing them. I’ve already been working on Ohrder and Begone, who are the main characters in the story–or are they the only two? And even if they are, how much time do I spend developing…
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Chapter Two – What’s Going On Here?
One of the things I always have to ask myself is, “Am I ready to write this chapter?” It’s an important question because how on earth would I ever expect to explain to someone else what’s going on if I haven’t figured it out for myself? I suspect this is the heart of most cases of ‘writer’s block’ that authors…
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Chapter One – Before I Type a Word
Is this worth bothering with? I’m not talking about this series of posts on how I do the writing process–that’s certainly debatable. No, I’m referring to all the ideas that pop into my head that could become a book, or at least a story of some kind. My way of sorting that out is to…