Reinvention

I stopped writing in college. At least, I stopped writing novels. I had written my first novel in high school, and knew then that even though the book itself was awful, writing novels was my bliss. However, writing novels requires a great commitment of time and effort. Not so great, perhaps, when I was in […]

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Too Soon To Tell

Does this mean she loves books or hates them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOFIsQP2gU UPDATE: For some inexplicable reason, the embedded video window was crashing Internet Explorer for users, so I have replaced it with a hyperlink until I figure out how to fix it. In the meantime, IE sucks. Consider Firefox.

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Q & A

As I mentioned earlier, The Warded Man is the May book of the month on the Brent Weeks Web Forum, and I’ve started answering questions for the BotM group. There have been a lot of really good questions, and I’m determined to answer them all. I’ve already answered like three interviews’ worth. Check out the […]

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New Excision: Reclaiming the Circle

Posted a new Excision just now, entitled Reclaiming the Circle. It shows what happened when the Painted Man and Rojer go to take back the circle and horse from the bandits. It’s a short scene, only about 380 words, but it offers up the opportunity to talk about POV philosophy in the introduction and discussion, […]

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New Excision:One Arm and the Nightwolves

Added another deleted scene from The Painted/Warded Man on the Excisions page. If you’re new to the site, the Excisions page is where I show scenes that were cut from my work, and discuss the process that led me to write them in the first place, and then later discard them. This scene, entitled One […]

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