Despite my best efforts, though, I still think about other story ideas, and sometimes they beg to be written.
Intergalactic Update 2024
Would you believe this post recognizes the fifth anniversary of IGC Publishing? I didn’t even realize until I went to look at last year’s update in preparation for writing this year’s, and realized in the process that this would be the fifth update post.
Obscene Storytelling
Think about what it says about your characters and their contexts before you give them the foul mouths we hear around us too often these days.
Nature Writing
In a more recent book, you are more likely to find a stand of trees, or maybe a stand of pine trees, while in an older book, you are more likely to be shown a stand of blue spruces.
Impressions Map
I somehow wrote almost all of Impressions, which features a significant amount of travel for Raven, and lots of luxuriating in the worldbuilding, without even a sketch of a map. Only when my writing group began going through the story did I think to rectify the story’s tardy cartographic situation.
Diagrams in Storytelling
I want to consider what the best way, from a storytelling perspective, is to convey this information to my readers. A diagram or solar system map might work, but it isn’t all that elegant.
Ideal Realism
Rather than grittiness, I see realism in how long it takes to walk from point A to point B, or in the equipment and technologies to which the characters have access and can carry, or the odds that they can reasonably face.
Stories To Tell
To say that we must tell the stories that are unique to us is to crimp ourselves. Don’t set out to tell the story that only you can tell. Set out to tell the story that you want to tell.
Eye of the World Review
The Wheel of Time turns, and the ages come again – in this case, it brings at long last my reread of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.
Character Thoughts
I have not spent enough time rigorously internalizing how to present character thoughts in different viewpoints.
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