28Mar2014 changes

I mentally put a bulletin in the head of the "priest" story I've been chipping at.

I was worried I'd broken the cardinal rule of "not finishing what you start!" But technically it is finished and I was just fine tuning.

I couldn't stand seeing the cliches anymore. It felt like I was polishing a turd! Lol

Want to keep them (the characters) but free them of the stereotypes.

Started fresh tonight and will jump fully in tomorrow.

27Mar2014

Didn't write at all yesterday. It was the first time this year I failed at it. I had a test to study for and had to make a big boy decision and feel shitty about it.
Im back at it today and I realize now that's what you do. Accept your failure and get back to work!


The reviews seem to be finished for now with "Hang the Hunter" and all of them were helpful. I will address the issues pointed out and do one last tweak. I already have a good idea for the second one but as so many writing advisors advise "finish what you start!" So im back chipping at "Drifting Priest" and struggling to embrace the challenge it is.


Ive changed the perspectives on it numerous times but it still reads kind of wrong. I fear I have to do it again. The first person feels too close if that makes any sense. He is less mysterious.

23Mar2014

Three reviews in on Hang the Hunter at Critique Circle so far and all of them overwhelmingly encouraging.


The feedback was constructive and refreshingly free of bullshit. The reviewers focused on two areas as a problem namely.


-Not enough description of characters physical features making them hard to visualize.
-Not enough description of the Great Forest resulting in the same.
Both were things I had been looking at but thought they were close enough as readers tend to fill in the info on their own in their respective heads but my professor says if they noticed it its noticeable (smile)


They all want more of the Grieve stricken dwarf which surprises me.
I put major effort into him and the tale but he is not the character I envisioned taking off. I thought Priest in the story im working now would be the one.
Still I always had a plan for Ghost and Hang so more stories of them will be fun.


My writers block trigger by thoughts of being a loser is gone. The positive reviews helped but it was simply powering through it that did the trick.

17Mar2014

Dragging today. My mood is sad, probably due to the lack of sunshine.
Did only a small amount of writing today as I'm just drained.
A couple more days till my review at c.c. The Priest story is still in rewrite, it'll get there. Have a pretty good idea what's next for Hang and Ghostwand, just need to iron it out and discipline myself to finish one before starting the other.

13mar2014

So the first Ghost story is done and submitted to the "Critque Circle" for a peer review.

Now I'm doing the rewrite on "The Drifting Priest" and roughed out the next story for Ghost and Hang.

I'm proud of myself for the consistency I've displayed this year.

I seem to finally realize life is going to press Weither you write or not so write!

I still see an issue with being more concerned with character and the human condition than story.

Truly innovative plot lines seem to escape me!

All I can do is try to make the chracters interesting.

9March2014

Finished the Ghost story. It is as good as I can be right now and I'm proud of it.

Planning the follow up while still chipping at the Priest story.

That one is finished but needs to be sweetened by some recent readings I feel will add more dept of character.

The mood does its thing and I do mine.  :)

I am no longer a slave to its whims.