HeyJaredThe Basilisk Journal
A chapter of comic fantasy a day keeps the gloomy thoughts away.
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Languages (opens the original)
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It has been said that writing regularity is vital for the completion a work of fiction. Unlike some other writing advice out there, this is true. Another thing that’s true is the need to let a finished work sit for a couple of months so you can get some distance from it and not hate its guts when you enter the editing phase. With all this, I want to report that I’ll be starting with the editing of FF4 next month. And that I’m about halfway through FF5, which I literally started on after I wrote
Sloppy jobs (opens the original)
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It has been quite a while since I was last here, but I’ve been busy, both with annoying, non-literary things and with fiction writing. I’m happy to report FF4 is now done and awaiting editing (I have a two-month self-imposed manuscript resting period between completion and editing), and I’ve started on FF5, which, fate willing, will be the final book in the Fros Kirova series. Teaser: Fros discovered fate in human form. She is not having it, of course. FF5 will be fun.Aside from that, I made som
What's in a name (opens the original)
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Names are fascinating, aren’t they? They can be funny, mysterious, boring and obvious, and, of course, difficult to pronounce if they come from a faraway place — or not even a faraway place but a place with very different pronunciation rules as Jeremy Clarkson learned when he had to review the Swedish Koenigsegg.Names always mean something. My name, for instance, means peace in Greek. Funnily enough, in Latin, my preferred short version, Ira, means quite the opposite of peace. It means wrath. An
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