Shortly after the end of spring semester, I started getting the fantasy itch – after all of the nonfiction reading I’d been doing, I needed something with orcs, elves, and swords. Along with installing Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2 on my PC, I picked up some books that take place in the Forgotten Realms [...]
Writing
Term Paper Woes
It’s that time of the semester again – that is, close to its end. I think just about anyone who’s done the whole college thing would say that the end of the semester, the last few weeks, are the worst. Even if you stay on top of things the rest of the time, things start [...]
Book bits: The longest sentence ever?
I’m still working my way through The Pale Horseman by Cornwell, and am now about halfway through it. (As can probably be guessed, the Potter series has been consuming a large amount of my reading time!)
I’m enjoying The Pale Horseman well enough: the setting is interesting (Anglo-Saxon England), the characters are decent. But, as I’ve [...]
NaNoWriMo: My steam has disappeared
Well, when the NaNoWriMo month started, I had a lot of energy and momentum in writing my novel. However, when Week Two was well under way, exactly what No Plot? No Problem! predicted had happened: my steam disappeared. The “wow!” factor of the whole thing had disappeared. Now what I see, instead of long expanses [...]
A picture is worth 1000 words, right?
So I was thinking… a picture is worth 1000 words, right? In my novel, there’s a lot of different places that readers* will need to be able to see on a map, to help them make sense of the story**. To help me write the novel, I started making a very, very rough map of [...]
