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Time Lines

by Bernard Davis May 4, 2020 No Comments

One of the problems that crop up when there are several distinct but connected strands to a story is making sure that everything and everyone is in synch. Currently at 95%+ into the story and I suddenly find one of my characters is where he shouldn’t actually be. The bad guys have launched a vicious […]

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How Long is Too Long?

by Bernard Davis May 1, 2020 No Comments

When I set the target lengths for a book, I usually put 80,000 words. It’s a purely arbitrary figure and has no specific significance. But it does give me a target to aim for. Likewise I usually decide on a deadline date, Scrivener, my writing program, is then quite happy to do a simple calculation […]

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Protected: Tranklements

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Protected: The Worm

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Pacing – Again

by Bernard Davis April 18, 2020 No Comments

While the pacing of the story is one concern, there is also the pacing of the writing. It isn’t the same sort of issue. In the story, we need to keep the reader’s attention, so the ebb and flow of action and the changes of perspective all add to the mix. In the writing, it’s […]

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Research

by Bernard Davis April 9, 2020 No Comments

It seems that researching while writing is more than half the fun. Or so far, at least. Looking up archaic the usage of words, making sure that the facts are right in the context of the setting and desperately trying not to be distracted by some obscure tidbit of knowledge that suddenly drops in your […]

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Incidentals

by Bernard Davis April 4, 2020 No Comments

It’s interesting when you start to do some research for a story just how much incidental information you can pick up. For example, how far can you ride a horse in a day? Apparently a fit horse could travel anything up to one hundred miles in a day, provided that it could be rested for […]

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Language

by Bernard Davis April 3, 2020 No Comments

The current work, Dark Roads, is set in the medieval period, 1201 to be precise. How people spoke then was effectively a completely different language to what is spoken now, so much so that we would not understand someone from those times, nor they us. Given that, how do we write dialogue that sounds sufficiently […]

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Pacing

by Bernard Davis April 2, 2020 No Comments

Not sure how the pacing of the current work will pan out. It seems at the moment that the faster action always involves the Female Main Character, Eleanor, while the slow passages revolve around the Male, de Quincey (Mathew to his friends). Occasionally straying into the world of the bad guys, helps break up the […]

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