I’m finally past the horrifying pain and emotions part! Hooray! Now onto the depressing “what is life” part! Yay! I’m really happy to see people following my progress on something that’s really just for me. Something that I can only describe until it’s completed. I got a new version of American Gods for Christmas. When […]
Tag: magical realism
We Back
It’s been a busy week of trying to focus on editing but I’m finally done. And now I can get back to cranking out the rest of the novel. Most likely 5-6 more chapters. Yay! The editing process was actually kinda rough. Almost every time I found something that didn’t agree with my current stylistic […]
Destiny Islands
It’s been probably about a year since I posted this the first time. I’ve made a lot of changes since then and I guess I’m just trying to find out if there are still more changes that need to be made. I’ve said before that I think the first chapter is the most important for […]
Progress tho
Finished the draft of chapter nine last weekend. Using an unreliable narrator on top of increasing amounts of metafiction is challenging, to say the least. But I’m sorta content with how it’s turning out. I think I want to get the story’s skeleton on the page before I start seriously considering big changes, so I’m […]
I’m doing it again
I’m finally taking my first genuine step into metafiction. I just crossed out a huge, and really important, section out of a chapter because I want my protag to repress the memory and I want the reader to be surprised later down the road when it pops back up. Feels pretty good though. This was […]
ICYMI: Chapter One
Hello friends! I’m feeling a little drained today between the job search and Destiny 2, so I’m just gonna roll with an ICYMI post this afternoon. If you haven’t seen it yet or just haven’t had the time, here’s a link to a post from last week including the entire first chapter draft of my […]
A Little of your Time
Welp. Here’s the entire first chapter if you’d like to take a look. It’s about 7,000 words or about 30 pages, by the way. If you’re feeling up to the task and have already read the bit I shared before, there’s a big ole horizontal line where you left off. I almost didn’t share this […]
Finding my Way
So, I guess in an effort to stick to my guns in a previous post about criticism and feedback, I wanted to share a short excerpt (roughly six pages in Word/2,000 words) from the beginning of the novel I’m currently working on. I haven’t shared it without people I don’t know personally in quite some […]
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