Discovering New Worlds, One Syllable at a Time
It is done.
As of this last week, I sent in the edits for The Keeper of Tales.
Want to know something funny? The entire time I was editing… I wanted to be writing. The entire time I was evaluating this novel I’d formed, I wanted to be forming something else. Something new. I had an itch to create. Continue reading “Desiring Creation”
Before a novel comes out to meet the public, it has to work out a lot. And I mean, a lot.
So, there’s this book of mine coming out May 1. I wrote the novel. I revised it. I destroyed it. I polished it. And then I sent it in to a publisher!
And lo and behold, Dark Owl Press is going to publish it!
But I’m not done yet. The editor at the publisher has sent me back notes on things that need to be worked on. So, here I am, again. Going through the novel. Again. Reading every single line. Again.
And you know what? Can I tell you a little secret?
I’m kinda sick of it. Continue reading “Reading the Work in Progress… Again”
I didn’t just read the best books of 2020. I read a lot of other things, too! Many of these were still good, just not the best of the year. Others… weren’t the best.
Every year from July 4 to July 3, I set aside anything I read so I can gaze upon the shelf of things I’ve read. And every year I do a little write-up on what I’ve read. Today, I’m presenting pellet reviews of my favorites. I’ve broken down two different top lists. First are the favorite prose things I’ve read, and then I’ll present my favorite graphic novels of the last year.
Writing is work.
Many years ago, I sat down to write an epic fantasy. The first words out of my fingers were, “We encamped that night at Garion Dawnsbrook.” In the following months I pumped out a massive tale of epic proportions that culminated in the literal end of that world, but a few survivors making it through to start a new world.
You will never read that novel. Continue reading “From Proto-novel to Novel”
Jonathon Mast: Author