For those of you who haven’t bothered to go to the “about me” page, I’ll give you an ever-so-brief introduction: I’m an attorney who does research and writing for a living. I’m also a recreational fantasy writer. This blog will focus on my recreational writing only.
Now for an idea of where I’m at with my writing. I’m currently working on a novel, and just broke the 30,000 word mark (30,141 words, to be exact). That’s quite a large accomplishment for me — in the past, I’ve never gotten past the 15,000 word mark.
The novel combines political intrigue with the harshness of war. It’s written from the point-of-view of several characters, including a King, a conscripted soldier, generals and colonels as well as mercenaries. The world is what I would call low-high magic; that is, magic is relatively rare (low), but where it exists, it is very powerful (high). It’s definitely not a focus of the book — in future books in the series, it will play a larger role.
My hope is to start getting about 2,000-3,000 words per week written. When I first started the novel, that wasn’t difficult — I pumped out the first 10,000 words in less than a month. Since then, I’ve slowed considerably — I’ve probably only written 1,000 for the month of July. I want to kick it into gear. Time to write.
