New thoughts and new dimensions have entered my brain causing me to take a fresh new look at my stories.

I am not a blogger so don't expect to be the "OMG...I have got to follow that"

Due to recent problems I am getting all rights to my novel returned to me. I am not going to whine or go into detail about that.

What I am going to talk about is fresh perspective. Sounds like an art blog right? Wrong.

To write one must have a special love for it that comes from deep with in the soul and supersedes any thing else.
A couple of recent blog post have made me do some soul searching.

I was so excited about finally sitting down and writing a novel that I only concentrated on the novel aspects of it. Its a good story and an okay novel in my humble opinion, I would honestly read me but I don't think that I would be addicted to me as an author that I would buy everything I released as soon as I did and I surely wouldn't make me one of those authors that I collect, like Heinlein or Asimov. I really could not put my finger on it until recently, more stories are solid and my style reflect that of authors I grew up on so that part is okay. Through some reading and soul searching I think I know what I am doing that is only mediocre and not reflective of the epics I write.

Yes I write epics...every writer does, just ask them. :P

What am I missing?

Quarks....I missed the mindless quarky stuff we all do. My characters move from scene to scene and have some great dialog but they are only characters. Really and truly I did not do that intentionally. I forgot to add in cute flaws and other stuff that bring them to life, so concentrated on the novel I was that I forgot to make them human.

This Video Game Writing blog by Kimberly Unger
http://www.ungerink.com/?p=296 helped me realize some of my bloat and continuity issues. It's really worth reading for any genre of writing.

This Webcast by K.M. Weiland
http://wordplay-kmweiland.blogspot.com/2010/02/making-your-character-ste...
helped bring to light that my characters are just that. Now I know where my stories lack and what to do about them.

Where do I go from here?
Step 1) Examine my stories
a)Make sure the continuity and flow are correct.
b)Make sure the dialog and settings are correct.
Step 2) Rewrite.
a)If the step 1 check is okay, rewrite for personality.
b)add what is missing, such as flaws, defects, and other personal stuff the the characters.
Step 3)Review
a)Make sure it is the story I want to write.
b)Make sure it is a story I want to read.
Step 4)Write it.

Thanks for reading...Stay Tooned.