Daniel Rodrigues-Martin's Blog: The Ark Series, page 5

How to Write: Neologisms in Fiction - To Use or Not to Use?

Are you a writer who made up new words for your story? Are you going to bring those terms out for your English-reading audience to interact with? Should you use a neologism in your fiction?


The answer depends on how much you want to "translate" the "language" of your characters into English. If you're writing a story where "English" isn't being spoken (such as in the Ark series), then in

Book Review: Currently Untitled (Book 2 of the Darwinverse) by Ian McLeod

See my review of McLeod's novel here.






Source: Amazon.com.

The quality of "Currently Untitled" is such that I don't feel a need to pad my review or give an extra star or two because I know the author personally.

Currently Untitled is a third-person omniscient narrative mainly following the existential crises of the forty-something Angus Agnew Pilcrow Anderson. Angus stumbles along the line

How to Write: Character Study - Villainous Femmes Fatale (Kreia from KOTOR 2 and Princess Azula from A:TLA)

Listening to: Daft Punk: Lose Yourself to Dance
Word Count of An Autumn Veil: 215,000
Word Count of book two: 16,000
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vil•lain (ˈvɪl ən)

n.


1. a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
2. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.


[1275–1325; < Middle French < Late Latin villānus a

How to Write: The Best Stories, Part Two - 'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss and Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight'

Listening to: Final Fantasy 7 soundtrack
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This is the second installment of my favorite stories series. A glaring gap in my prior entry was of the literary breed. How can an author not have a book on his list of favorite stories? Unbundy your undies and read on.


THE NAME OF THE WIND


Cover of "The Name of the Wind," by Patrick Rothfuss. Source.




"I have stolen princesses back from

An Autumn Veil: What it Means to Write 200,000 Words

Current Word Count of Autumnveil: ~207,000
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It was within the first year and a half of writing that I realized telling the whole story of Autumnveil would take over 200,000 words. Even at that time I knew this would be a hurdle to publishing for an unpublished novelist. As common knowledge goes, sci-fi/fantasy works for new writers shouldn't exceed 125,000 words.

I wonder sometimes if I

The Best Stories, Part 1: Avatar the Last Airbender, Firefly, Final Fantasy VII, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, and Telltale Games's 'The Walking Dead'

“Stories
you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may
forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll
forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will
stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever
visit.” -Neil
Gaiman


Good fiction both informs and is informed by reality.



I'm not a big reader. It is

Hand Grenades

Current Wordcount of Autumnveil: ~194,000
Playing: Torchlight 2
Listening to: The Civil Wars
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A STORY


So I would like to tell you what happened.



But before anything else, I would be grateful for you to become a follower of this blog. I'm  not asking you to read it every day (or at all, even). The mere fact of you following makes a difference. After you read the rest of this post, you'll