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Eighth Empire, Gaeta Type Design, and The Phoenix Quill: The Month Ahead

So going forward I have quite a few things planned for the month ahead. By far the most important priority is to get the business website for Gaeta Type Design designed and off the ground. Unlike last time, I have quite a few things currently ready for that. So let’s jump right in this time and talk about what goes on where.

Gaeta Type Design

Obviously as I said before this is the highest…

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Caravan Lifestyle

So I totally dropped off the face of the planet. You thought I went all reclusive writer on you again, didn’t you? I wish. Well, I do have good reason to be spotty as well. As the title of this post suggests, the caravan that I spoke of back in January is now in my possession.

There are a few problems, but it’s what you would expect from a decade old travel trailer. The real problems at the…

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Tentatively Titled & Business Hours

I missed Friday, so I’m going to make today’s post a rapid-fire update. I’m going to be hitting writing and typesetting both in one post. I know it’s not really something I normally do, but I’ve got good news on both fronts. You ready for this one? I think not.

Tentatively Titled

I have been for a long time referring to books in the series Scorching Skiesby the series and their number. That will…

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Eight Drafts

Recently I mentioned that I’m taking a break from all publication processes until I have a budget set that can be used to get what professional services I need such as copyediting, proper cover design, and proper ISBNs. This was not prompted by anything more than realizations, but I also did not mention that Eighth Empirehas been in a critique circle recently for its seventh draft. The seventh…

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Staving Off Publication: The Case for Scorching Skies

I have a long-term problem that I have dealt with a little bit by little bit. When I first started out writing epic fantasy I was in a world with very little development, and I was so proud of this book that I never had the second thought to send it to anyone. Well, I did send it to someone. That someone never did the editing they said the would though, so I discredit that as having never sent it…

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February: A Month of Typesetting

January has been a rousing success. The idea was to begin a writing trend for the entire year, but this month has taught me more than just that I can write every day of a month. It has taught me that I need to accept the inconsistency that is my writing lifestyle. I still intend to track myself, I do. I simply don’t intend to make it such a focus that I end up dragging down.

I enjoy the…

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Starenham—The Use Of Other Works As Inspiration

Most writers will answer questions about finding inspiration as music, but really inspiration can come from anywhere. Just the other day I was sitting on the square picnic table where we have a bunch of aluminum bars about 4′ long and 5/8″ by 5/8″. In this example, I started to wield it as a sword, realizing that a solid aluminum bar like that could be a good weapon for a slave master instead of…

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Fan Fiction: Yet Another Perspective Of the Controversial Genre

The featured image of today’s post—for those of you who actually saw it—is the Wicked Witch of the West in the ever famous film The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This installment of Oz was the only installment that was adapted to film in the life of author L. Frank Baum. Baum wrote many more books in Oz though, and he named himself the first Royal Historian of Oz. Baum insists that instead of having…

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Rhythm and Rhyme In Fiction Writing: The Semicolon

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So as the title so clearly suggests, this morning I’d like to take the time to talk about the semicolon. Frankly this punctuation mark has been severelybeaten up in the past. The first thing teachers tell you in school when they introduce you to the semicolon is that it is the heavyweight champion (or maybe they give you a better metaphor) of lifting independent clauses.…

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The Perfect Coat: Update On The Phoenix Quill

Phoenixes are known to burst into flames and become something completely new—usually being better than the last life of the phoenix, but for The Phoenix Quillthis is not the case. The quill is currently in a continued state of disarray as I try to find the perfect theme for it. Any of you who have developed with WordPress know that finding the perfect theme is often more difficult than it seems.…

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Manuscript Monday: A Tale of Continuing Triumph—For the Most Part

It has been said at times that Eighth Empire is more my baby than any other manuscript I have created in the past. Given that I am working on it for a seventhdraft to create the second edition of this book that becomes up-to-date with my evolved writing style as well as closing some plot holes that my inadequate beta readers missed in the last publication process, some people may go so far as to…

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Those Most Horrendous Moments Of Inspiration

So it’s not a secret that I believe characters haveto die in an epic fantasy. It’s no secret that my opinion if there are not some great tragedies in the series then it gets to be a bit less than exhilarating. I have experienced this moment where I know exactly when and how one of my characters dies this week, and a lot of the time people like to blame the author for killing the characters. A lot…

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The Phoenix, the Key, and the Spreadsheet Hello and welcome back for another classic installment of Mr. Andrew Gaeta Presents: New With Drew. Today there are a ton of things going on—all of this drawing back to a beginning with my reading platform that I told you a bit about during the…

Writing Introspection: Abeyance

“My prince you know well as the rest of us that the age threshold for the Astral Throne is five decades—you were barely four decades upon your father’s death,” the handsome golden elf Lord D’Orso said. “I understand your unrest, but I still support the council’s decision to retain power until you are of age.”

“It has been threeyears Lord D’Orso,” the young black prince said. He sat across from…

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The Year Ahead: My Cliché Resolutions Post For 2015

It is December 31! That means the new year is almost here, and either a few days before now, today, or a few days after everyone in the blogosphere is throwing up these cliché resolutions posts. I may tend to stray away from the clichés when it comes to blogging, but I must admit that I can never resist making New Year’s resolutions and posting them up. I have done one other resolutions post—I…

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World Building: Coronation of Dayona Nayon Adrie

Welcome one and all back to the blog—this week I’m continuing the theme that sparked up last week. Last week I took The Spirit of Donatelloand I worked it into the fabric of Apyre while at the same time reading back over it and practicing writing introspection. Now I’m one of the first people to tell you that you can’t be clinical with fiction writing—I’m one of the first people to tell you not…

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Writing Introspection: The Philanthropist

He could see his own breath on the air as the transport made final docking procedures on the southern island of the trinity—Terbensalės. The grey elf brushed a light dusting of snow off his shoulders as the deckhands extended the gangway to port. It had been a while since he left the northeastern island of Tervulkal, and no more did his reason for visiting the province’s capital pleasure him than…

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