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Getting better – at writing

Getting better – at writing

This sounds like a post-trauma group therapy slogan, but iI assure you, it is not. We’re here to discuss a rather interesting topic, namely, does one improve in whatever they are doing after doing it for a long while? There’s the so called 10,000-hour threshold of excellence and a few other metrics, all of which tell us that you will get better, no matter how bad or good you are, just by doing it. Well, I wanted to see if this was true, so I put myself to a test.

Well, in the last year, I was quite busy finishing Book Two of the series, and then cranking up Book Three in a record time of about three months. The effort gave me a very good opportunity to observe and evaluate my own writing habits and see whether I was improving, so to speak, using my own yard stick as the measurement tape. And I think there might be some truth in old proverbs.

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Tolkien like version of The Lost Words map

Tolkien like version of The Lost Words map

Here’s something rather neat for you. As you know, my fantasy universe of the Realms has a map. It’s in the book, right there at the beginning. In the true spirit of olden times, I kept the map rather simple and vague, depicting only  the major border lines and the bigger cities, so you get the feel where you are, but not the exact coordinates. No GPS in The Lost Words, I’m afraid. Still, due to semi-popular demand, I decided to create a special version of the map. Available in HD, or at least a big size with lots of pixels, you get the map in lovely colors, antique fonts and runic symbols. Oppan Tolkien style!

The Betrayed map

 

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I finished Book Three!

I finished Book Three!

Holy barnacle! I have finished the third book in the series. It will be a while before you see in the stores, but the entire text is there. Exactly 105 days after starting the second book, I have completed the third one, with 240,000 words written, averaging more than 2,000 words a day, although most of the writing was done on weekends. Moreover, I have successfully beaten my usual autumn-winter writers’ block, as there’s none, and I have never been more pumped about writing.

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I got interviewed!

I got interviewed!

Yup, I just got interviewed again! Anyhow, a nice fellow by the name of James, A.K.A. Cirias, who runs the fantasy slash speculative fiction blog fantasybastion.com, agreed to interview me, with the questions focusing on my book writing. If you’re interested, I recommend you hop by the yonder site and take a look at another facet of my lunacy. For those of you with the attention span of a newt, I kindly added this excerpt.

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How to make your writing consistent

How to make your writing consistent

As someone suffering from a mild case of OCD, order and consistency play an important role in my writing. Things have to be meticulous, in every shape or form. However, when you are trying to write a book, sprawling over four hundred pages with some 50 chapters and perhaps 150K words, even the most obsessed author will begin to lose track.

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The world as we know it

The world as we know it

Today, I want to talk you about the fictional world setting shown in The Betrayed, better known as the Realms. For those of you who may have read the book, the little map at the beginning of it probably raises more questions than answers them. So let us talk a little on what the map gives us, and perhaps also briefly touch on the topic of how maps ought to look in a fantasy book. P.S. Some spoilers may occur without prior notice, so watch it if you intend to read The Betrayed one day.

The Betrayed world map

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