I don’t know what we’re yelling about. In round four of the Snowflake outlining method, I’m to expand every sentence of my one-paragraph (make that two paragraph) novel summary into a paragraph of its own. By my count that was 10 separate paragraphs. In part 1 of this round, I wrote six paragraphs, which means …
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Snowflake Method: Round 4, Pt. 1 – Paragraphs on Paragraphs
Or how we dig into the meat and potatoes. So in this round, I’m supposed to take EVERY sentence in the one-paragraph summary of the novel’s plot and write a new paragraph for EACH of them. And I wrote a two-paragraph summary in the first place. So I’ve got something like 10 new paragraphs to …
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Snowflake Method: Round Three, Pt. 4
The Shopkeeper’s Wife only has four main characters (but a ton of side and minor characters), and so after this bio write-up, I can move onto the 4th actual stage of the Snowflake outlining method which is… (looks it up)… yikes. I’m supposed to take the one-paragraph summary of my novel and expand every sentence …
Snowflake Method: Round Three, Part Three
For our third main character, we focus on Nemo, Prince of Slumberland! Maybe you remember, but, well, likely not, but there was a very anime-esque, almost studio-Ghibli-esque animated movie released back in the early 90s (in fact, Hayao Miyazaki passed on directing it due to a lack of artistic freedom) called Little Nemo Adventures in …
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Snowflake Method: Round Three – Part Two
This one’s for Ziegander! My twitter handle. My online handle all across the web for many years. Ziegander was a character in a “fantasy epic” I started writing when I was like 16. It wasn’t good. It revolved around swords imbued with *absolute* elemental powers over, you guessed it, Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. And …
Waybetween 1st Novel: Snowflake Method, Round 3
Fight! Ahem, ok, this is a pretty intensely involved round. I am to distinguish the main characters of the book and create a one-page sort of bio for each of them. I am compiling a dossier of main characters, if you will. So, first comes identifying the main characters from the rest of the “chaff.” …
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Planning my first Waybetween Novel – The Snowflake Method
I plan to hit the ground running with my first ever novel, and my first novel set in the Waybetween! To that end, I will be needing to do some planning and do some outlining, and I’ve already begun using the Snowflake method. What’s the Snowflake method? I am glad you asked. So, the method …
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Magic in Ticonderos
I realized last night that, before I begin to delve too deeply into the socio-political landscape of both the over and under worlds of Ticonderos, I had better get a more concrete grasp of what magic exists in the setting and how each of them works. Being a “classic fantasy” setting with some twists, and …
Shardbuilding: Ticonderos
“Ticonderos” is the codename I’m working with, until I come up with the actual name, for the “classic fantasy setting” I plan to launch The Waybetween tabletop RPG and website roleplay community with. The idea is to launch three, perhaps four, shards of different genres, size, and depth for players to dive into and create …
The Crucible of Coal
CLANK! The souls of this dark, lifeless world have long since passed. CLANK! The world itself warped and broken. CLANK! It has been taken by the Abyss. Clink! Clink! All save the dilapidated castle that floats through the nihilistic morass of time decayed. Clink! It is nothing more than a Shard now. But deep within …
The Waybetween 