Slightly Belated April Update
April's update, where I come up with a thoroughly disgusting and grisly metaphor.
Month: April 2012
First Person Writing
Read using a Seinfeld impersonation: What’s the deal with first person writing? It seems like nearly every popular book these days is written in first person. A...
On The Fires of Heaven
I finally finished The Fires of Heaven, the fifth book in the Wheel of Time series. I say “finally” because, compared to the three Hunger Games book...
Scrivener for Windows 1.1.0.3 Beta
The folks at Literature and Latte released beta 1.1.0.3 for Windows. I am ignoring their friendly warnings and using it for my precious, irreplaceable novel pro...
The Sovereign of Tel Draft Completed
I have finished what could loosely be defined as a “first draft” of The Sovereign of Tel. Now what??
Subject-less Sentences
I noticed another little trick Suzanne Collins used to pull readers along at breakneck speed in The Hunger Games. I hadn’t noticed it in the first two boo...
Hunger Games Descriptions
As I’m reading the Hunger Games trilogy (I’m on the last book now), I am trying to analyze why it is so popular and addictive. The story is okay, the characters...
Hunger Games Dialog Tags
One thing I forgot to mention about The Hunger Games: The dialog tags. It’s funny the things you notice when you’re an aspiring writer. Suzanne Collins uses the...
On The Hunger Games
I finally get around to reading Hunger Games. (See what I did there?) I think it’s not terrible. It’s a decent action adventure yarn, but it’s...