I’m re-writing Book #1 right now. A few of my beta readers told me the meat on the bone is missing. So, I’m adding the muscle right now, doing some "body pump", some "jogging", "swimming"… Hopefully the body will be in good shape once the second draft is finished. In any case, in one of these new muscle-building chapters, my main character encounters a person who she already met at the beginning of the book (that part I wrote new as well). As they approached each other, I tho

Some months ago a beta reader gave me feedback on Book #1. It was useful and important feedback that I needed to address, but at that moment my first frightened thought was: I can’t. I don’t know how. The beta reader wanted to know more. More of everything. More about the past, about the future, about the characters, about their lives before and their lives now, more about the place, about this world, about the political situation. As I listened to it, I thought, “There’s a

I know I keep repeating myself, but I’ve almost finished the book #1. Almost. What I’d like to cover in this (quick) post is the ending: should it be a complete ending of Book #1 with final conclusion or a cliffhanger. As it looks right now, I’m going to write a cliffhanger in book #1. Not because I want to hook you so that you buy the book # 2 (at least not entirely), but because if I am to finish the story (the way I like) I would still need to write another 30 to 50

Long time not seen! I’m finishing up the book #1, and I’m trying to postpone all other things that come my way, including this blog, sorry. But, I need to give it something to eat, otherwise next time I come back, I’ll see only bones. Being engrossed in writing up my story, every now and then I need to do something else, just to give my brain a breather. So today, I read the part of the book I had started some months ago, but then stopped to finish up book #1. So I’m rea