I would go as far as stating that there’s no greater gift for a (beginning) author than a reader leaving a review on platforms like Amazon or Goodreads. Reviews are important for this, especially for undiscovered authors. It’s a jungle out there and readers are dying to filter crap from quality. I’m looking forward to it! Reviews milestone After that, it’s time to jump back to the beginning of the book and start ploughing through the words and see where things need to be course-corrected to my follow this latest idea. So, in the next few days, I’ll focus on finalizing this last chapter. Where I can clearly see the path I want to bring across to the reader-with all the dragon stuff, magic and action wrapped around it. I love these moments where it suddenly clicks for me. It is such a fire that I want to put in their, so readers can feel the excitement burn off the pages when they continue this adventure. So, not everything is in place yet and I suspect some pretty in-depth rewrites of certain scenes, but at least the realization ignited a fire in me again that I had been looking for while working on this book. Things about responsiblity and motive, about the scope, the bigger picture and the danger of losing sight of what was right in front of you. Thinking over the weaving storylines, I realized a different theme had already naturally flowed into the story of this MC. This annoyed me greatly and slowed my writing… until it hit me over the weekend what it should be. The right situation didn’t present itself in a way that I needed it, or wanted it to be. The initial conflict theme I had in mind for this book did not really fit. There’s plenty of action again and certainly a few storylines that get some much deserved attention (I’m looking at you Decan), but it was still lacking in other parts. To be honest, I had been writing this book without a clear growth path of one of the main characters, which bothered me quite a bit. I think at least it is the last chapter… I’ve been debating with myself a bit if I should not keep going a little further, or that the upcoming chapters I have in mind are better fitted for the start of the next book.īesides that, I already have a number of things that I want to add, change or fix things I didn’t want to go back for until the first draft was completely done. It’s one of those skills that can be forever honed/perfected.Īs the first draft of Firebringer enters its final chapter, I’ll try to look at the story with new eyes as I go back for the first round of changes. It reminded me that it’s the writer’s responsiblity to present the right amount of information at the right time to build tension, intrigue or simply create conflict to keep the reader engaged. It got me thinking about the information flow within a story. The media has so much power to influence us, it’s sometimes scary as hell. Last week was pretty intense with the USA elections going on, and while I followed it with great interest, it surprised me a little how much it overpowered other news like (a still) unsuccesful brexit, or the devastating earthquake in Turkey and tropical storm that ravaged Central America.
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