Novel #1

Chapter 31 finished

I started and finished chapter 31 yesterday. That’s a regular-sized chapter (sorry, no numbers here), so that was quite a bit of writing for one day. The scene is typical of Fantasy books where the protagonist touches magic for the first time. […]

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Write what you know

Write what you know is an old expression in writing, but it’s not something that does apply well if you’re writing Science Fiction or Fantasy. I particulary like that quote from B. Sanderson : “Write what you know? I write in completely […]

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Act started

I just started writing act3 of the novel. The first scene is a little light perhaps. I think I have to deflate some of the tension here, so that I can build more later. In this scene, the protagonist thinks that all […]

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Act 2 done!

Just a quick post to say that my act 2 is done! Yeah me! The act is roughly 50k long (I know, I’m not supposed to talk about word counts here!), so that’s a nice counterweight to the act 1’s 35k. I […]

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Unlocked

I’ve been having some difficulties writing the last few days. I suppose that if I don’t have an idea about what’s going to happen next in the story, I have less of a desire to write something up. Two days ago, I […]

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