Scif-Fi & Fantasy writer, exploring the depths of insanity and traveling the alternate universes.
We first meet this mysterious character in the first book of my six-part series: “Journey To The Black City”. He’s another one of those characters I had to get to know as the story progressed. In the beginning, I wasn’t at all sure if he would be a continuing character,…
Since adulthood comes soon in this kind of society; he has a chance encounter with a man known only as ‘the magician.’ I’ll say more about him later. This is one of those encounters that some call fate, and that the more cynical among us call ‘mere coincidence.’ In any…
A short time ago, I mentioned one of my characters in my six novel Steampunk/Fantasy series beginning with “Journey To The Black City”. The character in question is Dan Hendricks. If you recall, he’s a character who just sort of dropped in to say, “Hi” and then moved in—top hat,…
So I sat for over a day, opening the file and staring at it, and closing it once more. On the positive side, I got the vacuuming and dusting done, so the time wasn’t wasted completely. And then I remembered one tiny detail from the second sentence of the story!…
Up till now everything had been going smoothly. But when I reached the last fifty pages of the story, I realized I didn’t like the way it was turning out. I didn’t like the original ending at all. Now, the end of the story had to be rewritten, probably 80%…
It should have been easy; all I had to do, more or less, was copying what was on the printout, even if it was a bit faded and in need of a magnifying glass from time to time. I started with the intent of just copying exactly what was there…
I haven’t experienced this very much so far, until the day before yesterday, that is. I’m currently working on another book that’s not a part of the After Earth series. In fact, when I first started writing this story, I was writing it by hand, as we had no computer…
Let’s delve a bit further into finding and creating characters for your writing. For instance, say you need an auto mechanic in your story. Remember the mechanics you’ve known, both professional and the back-yard type. How did they dress? How did they walk and talk — what mannerisms can you…
When I talk to people who’ve read at least the first book in my steampunk/fantasy series After Earth: Journey To The Black City, I sometimes hear, “Where on earth do you ‘dream up’ your characters?” The answer can be quite obvious — we’ve all spent our lives meeting characters! Think…
In my steampunk/fantasy book series, beginning with After Earth: Journey To The Black City, I wanted to develop believable protagonists and antagonists. Too many times, the latter are more or less overlooked in stories and in films. Ask yourself, how many films have I seen where the ‘bad guys’ are…