by JTL | Mar 9, 2012 | Author's Comments, Writing Updates
Working on “the Fallen,” I now have the introduction complete (and a bit of the first chapter). One of the interesting challenges is to conquer how to bring in those who haven’t read your books before while not boring your readers who have. In some...
by JTL | Mar 3, 2012 | Writing Updates
The writing of “The Fallen” is now officially underway (as of March 1st)! After a season of growing peace, prosperity, and progress for mixed bloods, the secretive Foundationalists feel their whole way of life is threatened, and the future of Thuria is...
by JTL | Feb 6, 2012 | Writing Updates
Hi there! After finishing up some writing “vacation time,” I’m ready to start back into a “real project.” Writing vacation, by the way, is where I write something exclusively for my own enjoyment – sorry, don’t share those....
by JTL | Oct 19, 2011 | Writing Updates
Okay, so I just finished the book. Now, what? Well, the first step (for me) is to get it formatted into chapters. Now, the formatting also does something else: it sets the page and text spacing to the correct dimensions. Now, with some degree of certainty, I can...
by JTL | Oct 17, 2011 | Writing Updates
It tops out at 439 pages (in its formatted state it will likely be considerably longer). The final threads that bring Van and Sahni to the Meeting Den are woven together, and the reasons they are there and why it matters to both of them are clear. For just a moment,...
by JTL | Oct 4, 2011 | Writing Updates
What a good month it’s been for writing! I have to confess that writing Purebred has kind of taken out any other writing (including here) I would have done – well, that and one other little project. This, in many ways, is the most difficult part to write...
