Anthony Lowe's Blog, page 7

So, Here's What I Learned!

I know it's been more than a few days since the date, but I was finally able to publish my first ebook!


http://amzn.com/B00F28A0JQ

Just to give a brief (and shameless) synopsis: it's a sword and sorcery novel about three adventurers who are originally from our world. They don't know how they got to this new realm, but they're not very thrilled to be there. As in any fantasy story, duty and glory are calling to our protagonists, but they really don't want to answer that call.

I've been pitching i...

Tools o' the Trade! (Word Processors)

Before you start writing your first story, you're going to require a means through which to channel your literary prowess. Obviously, for a lot of people, this isn't really a problem. Pretty much every computer on the market these days comes with some form of a word processor, usually in the form of a trial version of Microsoft Office. This isn't a bad thing, but I know first hand how much it sucks when that trial runs out, and you're suddenly in "read-only mode," stressing to find out if dro...

Intro!

So, here's where I'm at:

A few years ago, I was sitting around at my dad's house in the hills, taking poke shots at different writing projects I had going, when I randomly broke down and started writing a short story about three very terrible fantasy heroes. It's a story I had wanted to write for a long time in some form. I had been outlining characters and random plot elements for several months by then, but the character cast before that night I actually started writing had been somewhere ar...