This quote sums up like 90% of my depressive episodes, right here. Substitute “depression” for “darkness” and you have it. I wonder if this is true for writers in general, that our depressive bouts are generally due to being lost in an inner world without words? Still with that three-day sale – Raven’s Tears is doing well with Kindle lovers […]
We’ve teamed up with Discount Books Daily to offer all you gamers and role players a special price-drop on Raven’s Tears – March 9th through the 11th, this introductory novel to the world of Menelon is priced at only 99 cents! Don’t wait. Seriously, if you’re like me, you’ll just forget. Click the link now. Get it while you’re thinking […]
Anyone can learn to be an effective writer. Colleges are full of creative writing courses turning out effective writers. A better question would be, can one learn to be an affective writer.
Mobile gear means we don’t have to stay home to get work done, so sometimes we don’t. Our files are still on our server at home and we access them just as we would if they were on Drive or Dropbox. These early sessions mostly consist of Michael and I writing new solo scenes for insertion into the manuscript, or […]
As the title foretells, as of tonight we officially have a second draft for Dead Man’s Trigger. It is a “whirligig of time,” as the old playwright wrote, and well it should be. Everything in Iris’ world turns inside-out, by the end of it. My eyeballs are furry. I can’t write fast enough. Is it Dead Man’s Trigger, yet? AE […]
Michael and I worked into the night, last night, but we got the scene list done for the front end of Dead Man’s Trigger. Thinking. Feeling. Oh, okay. “Scheming and plotting,” if you’re going to be persnickety about it. Call it whatever you want, I don’t mind. Today, I get to resume WRITING the story. I couldn’t be any happier. […]
Michael and I are well into the second hack of this manuscript. We’re building a new scene list. We’ve tagged the scenes that don’t work (i.e, most of them, but it’s still very first-drafty!) with keywords that tell us how to rewrite them, later . We’ve put all edged implements under lock and key for the duration. Here’s a […]
I should have a link here for you to read a wiki entry about alchemy and its relationship to magic on Menelon, but that article isn’t ready yet. Stay tuned. AE Matson is an author, and Creative Director, at Metaphor Publications. She’s also a textile fiend, SFGiants fan, aspiring Buddha, RPGer, tech-geeky, crone, corsair. It’s all about the stories. What’s […]
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. – Salman Rushdie Coming in April/May 2015.
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