If you write a novel with a linear structure and only one POV character–no skipping off for flashbacks, for alternate points of view or “meanwhile back at the ranch” segments–keeping the temporal continuity is simple. First this, then that, then the next thing, and the solid singular POV keeps even the writer perfectly oriented to Read More…
Category: Into the Fire
The End
Sweetest words a writer ever types. Mind you, INTO THE FIRE isn’t yet all spiffied up for travel, hooves trimmed and polished and painted with gold glitter, mane brushed and combed and braided and beribboned, tail ditto, and coat gleaming, ready to be trotted out at the Spring Show. The front half (about) of the Read More…
Difficulties
As of tonight, we’re stuck in testing the blogs in their new home. Something’s not working right with the WordPress files. I think I know what the problem is…or rather I hope I do…but we’re still not set up over there, and time is ticking away. I think the problem is that the WordPress theme Read More…
Move Is In Progress
As I said a couple of posts back, I’m having to move from my previous registrar and hosting service, SFF.net, to a new one. Well, the move is in progress, thanks to my new web maintenance person (web guru, as I prefer to call her), Karen Shull. Things have been sent thither by ftp, yesterday, Read More…
Reader Help Needed!
Late arriving inspiration…and I suddenly need the names of the instructors at the Slotter Key Academy that Ky mentioned in Engaging the Enemy when she was visiting the Mackensee homeworld, at the dinner with the founder of that merc company. And predictably, though it was around two or three weeks ago when I was looking Read More…
Rolling Zeros Again
Over 132,000 words now and misbehaving near the end. The plot threads that should be whipping around each other and forming a terminal shape are instead waving wildly in the breeze. A good part of that is the current political situation, which is sufficiently dire to grab my attention multiple times a day and suggest Read More…
Question for the Group
Suppose you are in opposition to the main characters. Of course, you don’t think of yourself as a villain; you think of them as annoyances in the way of your Grand Plan. But consider someone who (as is not unknown in the construction industry) is both a tough, hardnosed boss running a big business…and also Read More…
Funny How Time Slips Away….
Seriously? Ten days? Well, Stuff Happened, and doesn’t it always. Into the Fire had been dashing along happily but suddenly planted its feet and refused to move. Part of it was lack of sleep. Part of it was…”I don’t like my beginning. Do it over.” I explained gently and firmly that we do not do Read More…