Tag: novel writing
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Going for a Trilogy
My, the consummate stand-alone novel guy, is going for a trilogy. I mentioned a while back that I was wading into virgin territory by starting a sequel to my finished yet unpublished novel “A Man too Old for a Place too Far.” As I’ve been working on the sequel, the stories line just keep ballooning…
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A Meeting with a Beta Reader and More Genre Issues
I had a wonderful opportunity yesterday to sit down and discuss my new, unreleased novel with one of my beta readers yesterday. He provided some terrific insight in regards to characterization and novel pacing. He even shared with me that he felt that the novel didn’t feel like a novel in some regards. He kept…
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Was I Sleeping 4 Times Through This Chapter?
Revision work never seems to surprise and frustrate me. I have been doing some fairly significant re-writes on my next novel up, and each revised chapter had its moments in the grinding machine of my mind, polishing and burnishing each one a little closer to the end result. And then yesterday, I came across a…
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“Not So Fast,”Book 1 says to Book 2.
In a previous post, I talked about how I’m writing my first sequel, possibly series, and I keep discovering things which I am sure series writers knew in their kindergarten years of writing: slow down! The reason for the slow down is that I now realize that book 2 affects book 1, or at least…
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I Don’t Particularly Like Sequels, But I’m Writing One
I have written five standalone novels. Novel six, which is complete, could have been another standalone, but I’ve decided to write a sequel for it. Here’s why. But first, why haven’t I written any sequels up to this point? First, Hemingway never wrote sequels, and I like Hemingway. Okay, that’s not a very good reason…
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Writing Tips: How to Write a Novel.
This post is not about how to write a novel because there’s only one way to write a novel and that’s by stringing together more than 50,000 words into a coherent story. That’s it. You need more words. Get to it. Connect them. Yeah, you wrote a novel. I realize that the above description may…
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A Writer’s Problem? Diverted attention
Here’s the problem: I have so many writing interests that I jump around to all kinds of writing projects at the same time. I should be working on my novel right now. I’m almost done with the first draft, but here’s where my rabbit-hold-kind-of-brain has been at this week. Two days ago, I got an…
Author Mark W Sasse 