It's only a $1.33
It's pretty long which is why it's more than a dollar I guess. Also, I'm moving this blog over to tumblr, because phones.
1/19/14
Once and future thing
I have some time while waiting waiting waiting to do some writing. I'm going to start with one of those fun (for me) lists of upcoming projects and some few spark phrases about them. I also want to get to my reflections on An Empty Place, just what I learned from writing it and what I wouldn't do again, some thematic resonances I didn't totally expect, problems to avoid, etc.
Hilde
I have a daughter named Hilde Gwyneth Malcolm-Hoehnen now. It's funny how you end up banging your head on things when bending over and forgetting how to walk when you can't think about any one else except your daughter. I can't wait to start reading to her, not really possible right now. I can't wait to write so that some day if I'm lucky I can show it to her and find a way to inspire her.
1/12/14
1/9/14
1/5/14
1/3
I'm only about a third of the way done with my next novel Thunderbird. Looks like it'll take me like at least 14 months to finish, which is way longer than anything I've written since my first real attempt at writing something. I have good reasons for this, but it still makes me feel a little hollow. I've been storming other ideas and outlining/dabbling in my fantasy novel to keep my mind fresh, and I've taken on a new year's resolution to read much more than I have been to re-charge the batteries so to speak.
It's the first time that I've let a character drive the plot in a way that changes it significantly as I'm writing, or more lets her populate plot points in the overall narrative that I'm only determining a few steps ahead of time. Meaning I create the character's motivation and perspective and find out what plot point can be used to turn it towards the end of the story. Which is another thing I'm doing for the first time: not really knowing the end very well. I have a vague picture of a cabin and a bird, a storm and a hospital bed, but I don't know if my character finds what she's looking for, and if she does, how that expresses itself thematically.
It's the first time that I've let a character drive the plot in a way that changes it significantly as I'm writing, or more lets her populate plot points in the overall narrative that I'm only determining a few steps ahead of time. Meaning I create the character's motivation and perspective and find out what plot point can be used to turn it towards the end of the story. Which is another thing I'm doing for the first time: not really knowing the end very well. I have a vague picture of a cabin and a bird, a storm and a hospital bed, but I don't know if my character finds what she's looking for, and if she does, how that expresses itself thematically.
1/4/14
1/1/14
12/28/13
AN EMPTY PLACE, Chapter Eight - "The Thunder With Limbs"
Hello all you patient people who are still reading this book! Hope you merry'd. I'm going to try to get all these posted before the baby comes, so expect the last four chapters in the next few weeks.
11/12/13
AN EMPTY PLACE, Chapter Seven - "Chamber Music"
I thought I had already posted this but I guess not.
10/12/13
AN EMPTY PLACE, Chapter Six - "Cutting Off The Fat"
Halfway. A necessary surgery. The mountain cold shadow. Memory/no mind.
This is the part where the band gets together.
10/11/13
10/5/13
Herd In the Year
Can't believe it's been so long since I've posted a list of the books I have done and am going to do and all the things I'll wish I'd made when the record ends.
Below is a complex:
Below is a complex:
AN EMPTY PLACE, Chapter Five - "The Lid of Madness"
Been a bit hasn't it? I'm out of training at work, so that's good news. I'd been kind of dreading putting this chapter up because - although I really like it and it works almost as a short story - formatting it for the blog is going to be a challenge. So if anything looks screwy, I'm working on it.
In another bit of news, the illustrator guy is going to school again so I don't expect to see those for some time.
Here we get into the bowels of the books world, and we begin to pull back the enchanted, blood soaked curtain.
Enjoy!
8/18/13
AN EMPTY PLACE, Chapter Four - "The Long Dark Road Inside"
The next chapter is here, ending the first act. Illustrator man is a little behind but I'll let you know when they're added.
I think this is where is starts to come together, where the world becomes clear and the threats take a clarifying shape.
7/28/13
7/7/13
AN EMPTY PLACE, Chapter Two - "Evocation of the Protector"
Chapter 2. I'll update this with wicked and wily illustration in short order. This one needed a little more editing to make it serviceable to mine eye.
I want to thank you for the kind words and anxious demand that I did not expect! Please let me know how you feel about this as it goes or at the end or whatever. LOVE YOU ALL!
I want to thank you for the kind words and anxious demand that I did not expect! Please let me know how you feel about this as it goes or at the end or whatever. LOVE YOU ALL!
7/2/13
Come Back
Had some nightmares last night. Nothing like finding a reason in terror to look forward to the day-job.
6/30/13
AN EMPTY PLACE, Chapter One - "Night Life"
Presenting to you my first full length novel, a dystopian psycho-fantasy titled An Empty Place. Because why not? I started writing this book almost five years ago, July 15th 2008.
It's about a man chased by demons who has to rediscover his forgotten power, and with the help of the two very different women he meets on the way, save the world.
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