Armand's First Letter. Amelia's First Letter. 19 June 1020, L'École du Sorciers My dearest cousin Armand, There is a new burned patch in the main quadrangle at L'École. It is perhaps four yards in width and five yards in length, with a thin ring of withered and blackened grass around the edge and baked black … Continue reading Rage
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Turning the Corner
The joy of writing a novel by the seat of my pants is that I get to find out what the story is as I go along. There's a wonderful freedom to it. I need a character, so I make one up; and the character comes to life and has his own needs and wants … Continue reading Turning the Corner
Riding the Pantser Tank
Famously there are two kinds of novelists, plotters and pantsers. Plotters are those who work out the plot in great detail ahead of time, outlining everything to within in an inch of its life. P.G. Wodehouse, for example, was a plotter par excellence: he'd put each scene on a card and pin them to a … Continue reading Riding the Pantser Tank
Zymurgia House 