Category Archives: General Writing

A quick word about a guy named Charlie Forêt

The Integration Era, a LitRPG space opera by Charlie Forêt, presents a unique premise where an alien system integrates into sentient minds, presenting six significant metrics. It explores themes of power and consequence, with characters facing weighty decisions influenced by their statistics. Free short stories are available on integrationera.com to sample the narrative.

Writing Tools for Editing

I’ve been editing stories lately. As part of the process, I’ve found several of my own weaknesses when drafting my stories. Rather than struggle identifying issues through tedious searches and re-reads, I wrote a tool to help me. What it does: My word analyzer parses text or markdown files and performs various forms of frequencyContinue reading “Writing Tools for Editing”

How to Edit Explicit Content out of Your Novel

Last week I shared a little about hitting a wall in my writing and some strategies to overcome partial blocks. One of the things I mentioned was performing a re-write on “A New Past”. I did a little analysis to see what would be involved in stripping out the explicit content and came up with about 15%Continue reading “How to Edit Explicit Content out of Your Novel”

Overcoming Writing Blocks: Tips to Reignite Your Muse

I’ve hit a little block on my two works-in-progress. Neither is fully blocked, in so far that I know where I want the story to go, but both are feeling more like work to write at the moment. Since the first 25k words in each came almost effortlessly, it gives a pause when it starts to feelContinue reading “Overcoming Writing Blocks: Tips to Reignite Your Muse”

Technomancer Review: A Unique Sci-Fi Fantasy Adventure

Excerpt from a reviewer: Loved it! 😍 This genre-bending novel is firmly at the intersection of technology and magic, with a solid foot in each world. Technomancer provides a unique and fascinating story line as the author weaves our technologically advanced world with the magically enhanced yet industrially deficient world of Elysia in such aContinue reading “Technomancer Review: A Unique Sci-Fi Fantasy Adventure”

Understanding Character Depth Through the Lens of Who

I recently started to get caught up on Writing Excuses, Season 20 while commenting into work. Specifically, Episode 5: Lens 1 – Who. The discussion introduces “the lens of who” — which means talking about characters. This is a great refresher on making characters that are multi-dimensional by showing them through different “lenses”. A key take-away is the ideaContinue reading “Understanding Character Depth Through the Lens of Who”

Balancing Real Life and Fictional Worlds

Sorry for the break in posting. I’ve been busy working to make ends meet with my real job and fallen off the writing bandwagon a little. Now that I’m being productive in the real world, I’m ready to jump back into the fictional worlds in my head.  I’ve been toying with two story ideas thatContinue reading “Balancing Real Life and Fictional Worlds”

Marketing Mondays: The Synopsis Conundrum

Yesterday, I shared some of my efforts at creating a marketing synopsis for Technomancer. While the book is not posted for purchase yet, I need the summary for the sales pages on various sights, and also want to have a slug I can share with potential reviewers. A synopsis can be a writer’s nemesis butContinue reading “Marketing Mondays: The Synopsis Conundrum”

Navigating Plot Challenges: Writing into a Corner

I’ve been editing and polishing my latest story, as discussed last month. I know I’m making the story better and stronger, but it is not without its challenges. One issue I faced is the skipping of progress in certain character/conflict arcs. My method of tracing these arcs exposed a weakness in part of the story.Continue reading “Navigating Plot Challenges: Writing into a Corner”