Over on AbsoluteWrite.com, author Richard Garfinkle had some great things to say about worldbuilding – from a reader’s point of view. “One of the things I often say at writer’s workshops is that readers who get into the story will often push the edges of what is written. They’ll wonder about the lives of the…
Read More More about worldbuildingMy signed and countersigned contract for MORO’S SHIELD arrived yesterday from Loose Id. Somehow, having a contract for the sequel makes MORO’S PRICE more real. The story I started writing on 03-05-2011 as a fun experiment is now a job, no less enjoyable but infinitely more terrifying. I have the dreaded Second Novel Syndrome to…
Read More August 11 updateI’m a fantasy writer just now wandering into the world of erotic romance. I’ve been reading fantasy since the early 1970s. Hence, my high tolerance for vast paragraphs of worldbuilding, complicated plots and sub-plots, and tiny nuggets of foreshadowing scattered like diamonds on a path. Sex in older fantasy and science fiction novels often faded…
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