Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Quick Little Poll

Question time!

What's your favorite period of history that never gets used enough in literature? This could be as a setting for historical fiction/fantasy or as a base on which an author builds an entire fantasy world.

Leave your favorite in the comments.

For me, I have no idea. I've never been much into historical fiction. Fantasy for a very long time has been enamored of the medieval world so it's definitely been more of a challenge to find non-European non-Middle Ages inspired worlds.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

When Is It time?

No, this is not one of those, "When's it my time to shine?" posts.

At what point in the long slog of a project do you decide it's no longer viable?

When is it time to toss it in the proverbial dust drawer?

When's it time to say that enough is enough and the characters and plot no longer interest you?

Because if they don't interest the writer they're sure as pigs loving slop not gonna interest a reader.

When is it time to say goodbye to the stories and characters you've spent years listening to? When's it time to say goodbye to the ones whose stories you'll never get to listen to?

All this to say that I may soon be saying all this to yet another fantasy project.