Other than a couple of book reviews, that's all of the writing I did for this week. Next week's posts include some thoughts about the polymath concept, and a review for The Dragonbone Chair.
Weekly Writing Update
Despite my digression from Verdon's Tragedy, I did maintain my focus on Blood and Dragons. Aside from a few, finishing touches, I can now say that the first part is complete.
Blood Magic S2:E4: Fallen Angel Re-Release
I think a lot about writing action scenes. I don’t mean action scenes in the literary sense, but action scenes in the sense that probably attracted a lot of us to speculative fiction in the first place, the kinds of action scenes with flashing swords, sparking wands, roaring dragons, and pirouetting starships.
Weekly Writing Update
This was a pretty good week, writing-wise.
Weekly Writing Update
How are we already starting April? That's a disconcerting thought. As you hopefully saw, March's Blood Magic episode, Making Change, is now live, so I encourage you to head over there and read it soon.
Blood Magic S3:E3: Making Change Release
For all that I really enjoyed writing this story, and think that you will enjoy reading it, I don’t have very much to say about it. It’s a simple story, really, introducing Arval and providing a little context and a little conflict.
Weekly Writing Update
I finished Noble Child this week. It clocks in at just a smidgeon over ten thousand words, putting it right in line with an average Blood Magic episode.
Weekly Writing Update
In this third weekly writing update, we'll be talking a little bit about a technique I (try) to use when I come up against a form of writer's block, which I call writing into the next scene.
Blood Magic Season 2: A Look Back
I debated whether I should do a reflections post for season two at all. Since I started doing the release posts, most of the ground that I would cover in such a post is covered in those, instead, and I don’t want to be redundant. While Blood Magic is a major part of IGC Publishing at this point, making up the bulk of its content, I still want to be able to appeal to and attract readers who may not be interested in that particular series. However, I found after I finished the season two finale that I had enough to say about the season as a whole to make this post worth writing. Plus, I try to keep from putting spoilers to the events of the episode in the release posts, so consider this you spoiler warning: I do not intend to be so careful here.
Blood Magic S2:E3: Strange Lands Re-Release
My main goal, going through revisions having now completed the Pifechan invasion episodes at the end of season two, was to help readers understand the Pifechan mindset, and to make them seem less like a tropy evil empire out to dominate the world.
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