When it comes to a story, most of the time, the main character is the one who goes through the MOST changes. Whether it’s Neo in The Matrix, Frodo in Lord of the Rings, or Katniss in The Hunger Games, they all go through the Hero’s Journey and end up far differently than when they [...]
Static Main Characters
What the Term “Indie” Means
As of late, I’ve been reading a lot of posts about what the term “indie author” means. Before deciding to write this post, I had no idea what the actual definition was nor did I really care. It was one of those things that I knew, but didn’t really “know” if you catch my drift. [...]
A Book Into a Movie–The Hunger Games
Now, I’m not a filmmaker, but I believe that translating a book into a movie is hard. Crafting a film is far different than writing a book. Not better, just different. You want to still capture everything the book offers like the theme, story, characters, and cool moments, but you’re limited. You’re mainly limited by [...]
Price Drop
Hi, just wanted everyone to know that I dropped the price of Catalyst to $2.99. I’ll probably write a post as to why later. My book can be found here: AMAZON BARNES & NOBLES DIESEL EBOOKS IBOOKSTORE KOBO BOOKS SMASHWORDS SONY E-READER
One Year Later…
Can you believe it? It’s been one year since I’ve published my book! It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. It’s been a long time… Sorry, I’ve been watching a lot of Enterprise lately. It’s a good show by the way! If you can ignore the theme song. I thought I would [...]
Don’t Talk to Other Writers
If there’s one advice, I would give writers if they’re thinking of going the indie route, it’s that I would tell them to NOT talk to other writers. Before people get upset, I’m specifically talking about when it comes to the publishing and business side of writing. For the craft, I would still talk to [...]
Weaknesses in Writing: Main Character
All writers seem to blog about pricing, cover, sales, KDP Select, Amazon, etc., etc., etc. But rarely do they talk about the writing process. I can understand why. Writing is rather boring. You just hammer at words on a keyboard, phone, or tablet and occasionally talk to yourself. Instead of talking about how great a [...]
The Butterfly Effect of Editing
I’ve always found writing a book to be easy peasy. Granted, that first draft won’t be very good, but I can generally bang out a very rough manuscript within two to three months. What I’m learning is that I’m starting to hate editing. My second book titled, What Once Was One, is taking far too [...]
Writers Don’t Like Money
Writers are very strange people. It might be the artist thing, but we’re they’re weird, whiny, very egotistical, and argumentative. Maybe it’s a human thing, but the one thing I’ve found that confuses me is that writers constantly say, “I don’t care about the money.” Huh? Call me crazy, but I love money! Show me [...]
The Future of Fantasy
As I mentioned way back before, I don’t read that much fantasy. I do read some and I have a tendacy to think about the future. What I’ve noticed is that there seems to be a divide between the two main types of fantasy. You have your dark and gritty vs. the lightheartedness and fun. [...]