hero Archive
Today, I was writing out the political system of my kingdom, including a major change from the previous edition. There is a border war that is part of the key background to this story. In the previous version of this …
Today, I am continuing to work on the rough sketch of my story. Since I worked out how book 1 ends last time, today, I went back to think about how it begins. How can my hero be as far …
Today, I started following Rachel Aaron’s (2k to 10k) process for developing a rough sketch of my book before filling in the gaps. I addressed the general motivation and roles of the most important characters in my story (the hero, …
I have a decent collection now of over 10 comp titles that feature in the top 100 of the various categories I think my book will slot into, and have been noting common elements in their covers and descriptions. Almost …
Now that I have my overall series premise, as well as an idea of how the primary conflict will be resolved, I can plan the individual books based on the steps and progress that my hero needs to take to …
OK, so I think I finally have a grasp of where my series as a whole is headed. I have worked out the overall premise for what I think will be a trilogy, including how my hero confronts my villain …
So, I have spent the last several days going through potential “What if” scenarios and premises for my first book and the series as a whole, but almost all of them shared one problem: They were all about what happened …
I’m going back to look at my story from step one – looking at the premise again. My initial premise was probably too complicated, as I was tempted from that stage to stuff more than was reasonable into the story. …
OK, so I’m going to be flipping back and forth between fiction and non-fiction and for now, at least, I’m going to try to rewrite Heir to Ruin but keeping things simpler and more upbeat. I’m only going to focus …
Today, I needed to introduce a new element in my magic system, so I was searching through the notes section in Scrivener to find that part. In the process, I stumbled on the setting cards and minor character descriptions that …