Tag Archives: fiction
My Work in Progress: Response to a Prompt Chain
J. D. McLaughlin tagged me recently in a post she wrote last week. Now it is my turn to respond to said prompt/questions (Make sure you go read hers as well.) And now, unto the post. 1: What is the working title of one of your current stories? I’ve decided to answer these questions about my …
Novel Remodeling
On Friday I finally got around to getting a printed copy of the latest draft of Flowers for Dionysus, my first novel. That was the fourth, and red-inking for the fifth has already begin. In fact, I will probably get to page 100 tonight at least. Some interesting things have happened. I wanted to move some …
Forget Evil. Annoying Characters are the Most Difficult to Write.
I don’t believe any particular type of person must be present within the canon of someone’s fiction writing. If I don’t choose to ever write a story about a child-molester, that’s my prerogative as an author. I’d be uncomfortable delving into that character and his actions, so you’re not likely to find such a person in any …
Final Nanowrimo Update: Success
I’ve done it. Yesterday (Wednesday) at around 1:00PM, I finished writing the 50,000 words required to “win” National Novel Writing Month. It’s been verified by the site and everything. This makes my third successful Nanowrimo outing, though as with the previous two successful outings (in 2007 and 2008), the story itself was not finished during …
Nanowrimo Update IV
The final week of Nanowrimo is upon us all. As is this, my next update on my progress. As of last night I have just over 5,000 words to go. I’m projected at this pace to get to 50K by Thursday. There is something weird going on with that though, because last night it had …
Ty Unglebower 