Keenan’s Musings
Things to learn
I'm currently reading Sentence of Marriage by Shayne Parkinson and as I sat on the commuter train with my Kindle, it suddenly struck me that my own writing lacks sufficient description of details. In the novel, Amy shows a nurse into a bedroom for her to have a...
Getting back on the horse
I totally slacked off and didn't write anything related to the Spicers in a long time. I had another project happening, as well as taking on a second job that takes up quite a chunk of my time after coming home from my regular fulltime job. So how do you get back to...
The language you choose…
...determines the result of your story. I'm currently translating fairytales, and I found that they have a very unique rhythm. Just take the beginning and ending of a typical fairytale. It always starts with "Once upon a time..." and more often than not ends with...
Character Sheets
I've been introduced to the idea of character sheets for writing quite late into the process. I knew character sheets from gaming, where you record the strengths and weaknesses of a character, and note changes like level ups and so on, but for writing this never...
Novel writing software?
For a long time I wrote in Microsoft Word, simply because it was there, and you use it to create documents. When I started to write different scenes and different parts of my stories at different time, I ended up with multiple documents that all belonged to the same...
non-linear writing
I always imagined people who write books to sit down and start at the beginning, and then keep going until the end. Somehow I feel that is how books ought to be written, so I try and follow that pattern. But so often I suddenly veer off in my head and have a really...