Posted by Craig on February 17, 2010 – 7:25 pm
I have had an image in my head for along time now. Hundreds of thousands of people inside a long, wide tunnel, with nothing but their own company to keep them happy. No matter what I did, this image would never leave my head.
Then one day I had a lot of free time, so I wrote this out. Once I started, it couldn’t stop till my hand cramped up. This part is just over 1000 words, and is the story of a man and is sick father, forced to evacuate Sydney, Australia along with millions of other people. I still have lots of thoughts about thsi tory, and I look forward to writing more parts.
DIARY OF A SURVIVOR – Part 1
Edit: I have updated this file to fix a few unintentional spelling mistakes.
Click here to download: Diary of a Survivor (37)
Please leave a comment after you’ve read it, I’d love to know what you think.
Posted by Craig on January 7, 2010 – 3:23 pm
Well, after about four-five months of solid writing, I finished the first draft. Of course, this was a rewrite of the last book I wrote (and discarded), so I guess you could say this is the third draft.
The first version was called ‘Dilemma of the Hour’ and I discarded it because it didn’t really end. The new version is called ‘The Spiral Dilemma’ and is much much better. I took out a character I didn’t really need, moved her to the second book. I also added a bunch of scenes after the original ending, to give it a proper full blown finale. I love it, it’s actually the best thing I’ve ever written.
Now, the next step is to edit, and come up with a second draft. I know there are few scenes which I rushed, and I’ll have to add more detail to those parts. Other bits just didn’t feel right, but that’s what editing is for.
It’s all down hill from here.
Now, where did I leave my fine-toothed come?
Posted by Craig on December 31, 2009 – 10:47 am
Filed under Writing
Tagged as book, dilemma, map, moure
Using some tutorials I found on Cartographer’s Guild I have designed, in Photoshop, a map of my fantasy world. Moure is where my novel is set.
I think it turned out pretty well. This first book mainly takes place in and around Tavia, in the lands south-west, but I plan for later books to travel around further.
I plan on updating the map as I write, and filling in more detail as the characters visit those places. In the middle of the map, the Tangled Sea will become very important to my future novels. Technically it isn’t excatly a sea, but you will find that out when I get to it.
