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While I develop a series of short stories/novellas based on my Draconia books, I'm reading through the first book, which was also my first published novel, trying to get back in touch with characters. I'm cringing a lot. My appreciation for those who left high reviews on Goodreads, those...

Recently finished my final round of edits, and I have boiled the word count down to 111,390 Status: Done and published. :cool:

When I start planning a new novel, I plan in broad strokes, brainstorming and listing the plot points that I want to hit at some point in the story. Then, I do a chapter-by-chapter outline where I list the key scenes/sequences. I work on this as I go, partly to keep up with the changes in...

I'm working on my final editing pass for Final Frontier before I release it next month.

With Final Frontier done and currently with beta readers, I've started working on a series of short stories/novellas that will form two anthologies. Ten stories related to my Draconia books. Five stories have already been written but are in need of editing if not extensive re-writing. The other...

Requesting readers for a soft science fiction (Star Trek-level) novel primarily for a full read (113k words). I have several British characters (including the main character), so it would be great if I could get someone based in the UK. I also have a couple of passages for which I would like an...

Update: Novel: Final Frontier Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 114,773 (OpenOffice), 113,309 (Word) Status: Just finished a round of editing. I was having problems with OpenOffice, so I switched to Word. The two processors seem to count words differently.

Word Count: 115,835 Status: DONE! Well, mostly. A few more rounds of editing, fine-tune the dialogue, and translate a few lines into an alien language.

June 8 Word Count: 115,360 Status: Chapter 25 is done. Starting on the epilogue.

Novel: Final Frontier Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 112,950 Status: Working on Chapter 25--the final chapter. It's been slow progress due to work, but I'm finally about to start the climatic battle.

Film adaptation of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern. There have been multiple announcements in the last 15 years of a studio picking up the rights and a screenwriter being assigned the project, but nothing further. Barry Sonnenfeld's Dinosaurs vs. Aliens. Star Trek 4 --I was intrigued by...

Dragons: Riders of Berk/Defenders of Berk/Race to the Edge Dragons: The Nine Realms FarScape Babylon 5 Crusade Stargate: SG-1 Stargate: Atlantis Stargate: Universe Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek: Enterprise (I haven't watched any...

I recently got around to watching Storks on Netflix. I thought it looked stupid when it first came out and so decided to skip it. The whole idea of storks delivering babies never made sense to me, even as a child. Now that I've seen it... I still think it's stupid, but not as much. It's...

I've been doing the second option but without the italics, stemming from my last three books where I had a race of telepathic dragons, which included many of my POV characters. All of their dialogue was italicized. It would have been confusing had I also italicized their internal thoughts.

In my opinion, Charlie Chaplin's speech at the end of The Great Dictator is still the best in the history of cinema. Followed by President Whitmore's speech in Independence Day.

Final chapter of the project I've been working on for 8 years. I've had the final scene in mind the whole time.

I remember reading that had Star Trek: Enterprise continued into Season 5, we might have seen a Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover.

Novel: Final Frontier Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 108,052 Status: Finished Chapter 24. And with that, I come to the final chapter.

A mystery or a discovery being made could also work as a hook.

I believe the expression actually refers to an element of the story (a scene, a plotpoint, a line, an exchange of dialogue) that you have a particularly strong attachment to. If it's hurting the story in any way, you need to be ready to cut it out. That's my take on it, anyway, but I'm pretty...