manuscript

  • More from the second draft of my manuscript

    It’s Monday, time for some more shameless, self-promotion (hey sometimes you gotta do it yourself!).  A few weeks ago I posted the first few paragraphs from Chapter 1.  Here is some more, following immediately after the last sample. “A Tale of Alborea” Chapter One (continued) The Battle of Swollen Hands:…

  • Sketch dump!

    T-that’s more of a term people use when they’re “dumping” a bunch of sketches onto a forum post.  This isn’t so much as a dump, as a light trickle.  Anyway, here are some pic’s from the ol’ moleskine: And here’s proof that I’ve been working on my manuscript.  Once I…

  • For every good sentence you write…

    …there is about 2 textbooks worth of research behind it.  Seriously.  That’s what I’m discovering as I work on my second draft of my mani (let’s call it project “Alborea”).  I’m sort of at a stalled moment right now, wrote about a page and a half of chapter one (some…

  • First page of second draft

    I’m debating whether or not I should post excerpts of my manuscript on here.  It’s the sort of thing that people gobble up on blogs, and it’s appropriate for the site.  But the artist in me (which is most of me) doesn’t want to show any of the story in…

  • Books are hard to write… apparently

    A long time ago I mentioned here I was working on developing a manuscript I had written 2 years ago.  It appears the story needed much more detail than I had realized (about 90,000 more details). Thanks to the intrepid diligence of ArtistXero (whose comic you should check out), the…