Quick Fan Story For Contest
Although I'm back doing art, that doesn't mean I just close the writing valve. I'm always writing. Usually, during the art periods, it's mostly blogs or development work for future writing projects, but sometimes a [...]
Although I'm back doing art, that doesn't mean I just close the writing valve. I'm always writing. Usually, during the art periods, it's mostly blogs or development work for future writing projects, but sometimes a [...]
With my focus having shifted back to art, I haven't been doing much writing lately. However, sometimes an opportunity pops up that you simply have to act upon. Such was the case with a fanfic contest set up by Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi as presented during the Phoenix Comicon 2010:
I'm getting ready to start prepping the next novel. As with all fiction writers, that means that I need to develop characters, settings, and situations which are relatable and compelling enough to make a reader want to slog through several hundred pages of my imagination. But there's something that I do, being a SF/F author, that authors in other genres don't have to: I have to create worlds. It's amazing how difficult it is to do that if your goal is to have coherent rules that can be