Tag Archives: fiction
The Name Game
In 90% of the cases, I don’t stress much about the names of characters in my fiction. That isn’t to say that names don’t matter to me, because they do, quite a bit. They have to “fit”. Yet I have read war-stories from authors who sometimes spend a month or more of the writing/editing process …
How to Juggle…Writings.
Lately I have been reconsidering the pacing and scheduling of my non-deadline oriented writing. My freelance stuff for magazines and websites is easy to place on the calendar. Finish it by the time it’s due. No ambiguity there. Yet what about the more personal projects? And there need to be personal projects. Especially when the …
It’s Not Always Your Story
I have a notebook full of ideas for future pieces I could write. A line of dialogue, or a premise. Sometimes just a single event or concept. I take it with me just about wherever I go. (If you’re a writer, you should do the same thing, you know.) Thus far I have not even …
Schrodinger’s Plot
I’ve always been fascinated with the concept of parallel universes. Those places where, (according to one theory at least) events of our history turned out differently. Because there are an infinite number of universes, any given one of them may differ from this by so little as the fact that in that reality my name was spelled …
Progress Report: Novel Number One
This month I will begin the fourth draft of my novel, Flowers for Dionysus. I have kept mental distance from it for the last few months since I finished the third draft, and sent it to a few test readers. (Most of whom have not progressed with it as quickly as I had been led to …
Ty Unglebower 