Funny thing happened on the way to the forum... That line used to mean something and anyone who read it would know what it meant and what it alluded to. Now some folk - no-one reading this, of course - could be forgiven for looking at this blog site and wondering where the forum tab …
Category: Writing
Realisations of Reality (I have seen the Mountain)
No surprise to anyone who has been there and done this, but the editing process tends to reveal more than it resolves at first. First you find superficial issues to fix, then you think of extra things that could/should be added and removed to make the story better. Then you realise how fat and lazy …
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Forward Progress, and an obsession with ‘things’.
Update Time! Yeah so I have a few projects going all at once. Because I have found over the years that trying to do just one thing and ignoring it utterly has worked so well for me, it seems I should do the other stupid thing of dissipating my energies on like 5 things at …
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Great advice and bad mantras
This week I decided to look up the websites of two current authors who write in the fantasy field and who I admire greatly. Brent Weeks, and Patrick Rothfuss. They are both magnificent writers. I have been quoted (to myself) that after reading their books I was depressed enough by their outrageous talents to give …
Put this off long enough…
Well, good morning and welcome to blogpost #1. An exciting day. More for me than you currently as I presently handily outnumber my readership. But nevertheless here the imaginary ‘we’ are, and on we go. I feel like I’m writing an essay for school, so perhaps I should should start by outlining the subject. I …
Roderick T. Macdonald 