Last week I was struck down by the curse of Nurgle, a daemonic plague which resulted in me wheezing and gurgling and my voice becoming considerably deeper and huskier. I've been scaring people round the house by sounding like a Scottish Darth Vader. The end result of all this was that not much got done. There was no blog post for the first time in over a year and I am yet further behind with my deadlines. I am off to Nottingham for the Warhammer 40,000 Doubles Tournament this weekend and then I shall be in Scotland for a long-booked family holiday. There's a lot I've been meaning to write about: the Gemmell Awards (a lot of fun), the last episode of my series about the writing of Blood of Aenarion and a bunch of other things but right … [Read more...]
Another Absence Note
I was hoping to finish my epic series of posts about the writing of Blood of Aenarion this week but real life intervened in the various ways it does. I am off to London for the David Gemmell Legend Awards today so I won't have the time now.I shall return next week! … [Read more...]
Writing Blood of Aenarion (Part Four)
I am sometimes an idiot. Last time I was talking about how I came to the solution of how the Elves of Ulthuan figure out N'Kari's plan. I fully intended to discuss that in this post then I realised it was, in fact, something of a huge spoiler so, apologies if I got your hopes up. I won't be doing that today. Instead I shall talk some more about the process of writing Blood of Aenarion. Hopefully I will get to the end of this saga before this series of posts becomes longer than War and Peace. Having solved most of the technical problems of plotting and structure, the actual writing of the books was a pure pleasure. I am sorry to disappoint those of you who feel that writing should be like opening a vein and bleeding on the page (a la … [Read more...]
