Lighthouse is, I feel, benefiting from a lack of perspective. I want my heroine to maintain her unique voice throughout the story, which means periphery scenes told from an outside perspective need to be cut. This means that several of the characters I’d meant to introduce early in the story will also not make their… Continue reading Cut Scenes & Cut Characters
Tag: Fiction
Works In Progress II: Electric Boogaloo
So between items I need to fix for my day job, here’s a few snapshots of things I’d rather be doing with my time this morning. Poor Lighthouse. I keep meaning to bang out more words in that novel but other things keep coming up. It’s only going to be an e-book, sure, but it’s… Continue reading Works In Progress II: Electric Boogaloo
Building Character
Eating vegetables is supposed to build one’s character, as is mowing the lawn. When we get older, we understand that when parents discuss building character, it’s short hand for long explanations of why it’s a good idea for us to eat something that’s nutritious but not as appealing as an ice cream sundae. Trying to… Continue reading Building Character
Cut Scenes: MacKenzie's End
Since Lighthouse is being written entirely in first person, scenes like this will no longer appear in the text. This doesn’t make them bad scenes, however: they just don’t fit into the perspective. I’m trying to maintain some mystery and suspense in the story, after all. Anyway, here’s a murder scene from the original iteration… Continue reading Cut Scenes: MacKenzie's End
Lighthouse, Day 1
I think I can finally get this serial off the ground.
Lions & Fortnights & Codes, Oh My!
I really couldn’t think of an appropriate image for this little literary trip down memory lane, so here’s a picture of a mountain lion. It’s semi-appropriate, I suppose, since the first iteration of the first novel I ever wrote was entitled “Project: Lion,” and if that doesn’t betray the fact I wrote the thing in… Continue reading Lions & Fortnights & Codes, Oh My!
The Jovian Gambit
Continuing where The Jovian Flight ended.
Captain Pendragon and the Perilous Amazon
The first in what I hope will be enjoyable post-apocalyptic steampunk adventures. Levels of swashbuckling will vary. ~~~ The Belenus began to descend from her cruising altitude towards the Amazonian river below them. The airship had been dispatched by the Vulcares Ministry of Defense and Oversight to secure what was reported to be a source… Continue reading Captain Pendragon and the Perilous Amazon
Shattered Code, Day 1
Built on some ideas and characters from my first novel attempt, this 14-day story arc is more than just an espionage thriller. ~ ~ ~ My name is Morgan Everson. People use a lot of different words to describe me, ranging from glowing praise to muttered expletives, but ‘conventional’ is not one of those words.… Continue reading Shattered Code, Day 1
Akuma
Set in feudal Japan, this story is not for the faint of heart. Until her release from the Hell of the Vast Cold countless days after the night of her murder, Lady Takahashi Makoto did not fully grasp the concept of cosmic balance and the role of akuma, or demons, within it. On that night… Continue reading Akuma
