National Punctuation Day Today, September 24, is National Punctuation Day. I’ve written about this before, but last year’s offering was fairly broad-based. This year, I’m going to focus on an area of fiction writing that comes quite easily to some, but for many, is a labyrinth of false starts, dead ends, and forbidding alleyways. What I’m…

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Nothing to see here…move along. So yeah…nothing to report on Throne because I haven’t looked at it since I last posted. I have done a bunch of other stuff, though (including a bit of writing), so I’ll talk about all that instead. Fair enough? Reading and the Library These two things kinda go hand-in-hand (which…

Hello again, and welcome back to the continuing saga…wait. If you read the title of this article, you know it’s a continuing saga (“Update #3″ was a dead giveaway, right?). Even if you didn’t read the first two installments, you know. So let’s dispense with the hackneyed boilerplate and get down to brass tacks. *ahem*…

Welcome back for the second in my series of articles on my writing odyssey from (extremely) rough draft to finished novel. If you recall from Monday’s installment, I had rewritten the first chapter to create a more compelling premise for Connor to begin his journey from his home village of Rockbridge. I had also changed…