Keenan’s Musings
Novel-writing advice, or: How to procrastinate
On some days, all I do while "writing" is to google how other people write, and then call it research. Of course I get nothing done, apart from discouraging myself. There's a wealth of sites out there that tell you to read this book or another book, often titled "How...
Where villains come from
I suspect some writers breed them in a dungeon below the privy. Or have a hive of them somewhere in the woods near a creepy cabin. It's amazing what evil villains some authors can come up with! (Insert envy here...) Mine almost always start their life as a real...
Inspiration in unlikely places
Sometimes I have days where I have no inspiration at all. I kinda know where I want my story to go, but getting there seems like a drag. A bit like commuting to work. Even though I enjoy my day job, sitting on the commuter train on the way to or from the city is a...
Accidental Race Creation
I've been busy world building again. This time, I didn't even mean to (honest!), it just happened. I was writing away happily on the spice trader stories (which still don't have a proper working title), when I quickly needed a character in a hurry. Usually I have no...
Ooops! (How not to kill your protagonist)
A hero who never gets into any trouble isn't a hero, but a couch potato. And nobody wants to read about a lazy sod who doesn't do anything. The whole reason we're telling THIS story and not another one is BECAUSE he gets into trouble. Then again, he also needs to be...
Working Title: Spice Traders
Since I don't know where I'm going with this story yet, I'm filing it under "Spice Traders". Simply because some of the characters are spice traders. Although I don't think that the spices as such will be very detrimental to the story yet. It could have been soap. Or...