Well, I missed another month of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. *sigh* I blame editing. I’ve been deep into line-editing lately, and trying to juggle critiques with my offline life because school started again, my dog hurt his back leg, my son got sick, there’s been birthday parties and fair outings and teacher visiting. Though, all that was toward the latter half of the month and no excuse for missing the first Wednesday.
But I’m here now!
Happy Anniversary, IWSG!! Fifteens years is quite the feat!
I’ve cleaned up quite a bit in my revisions. Fixed the relationship, added more palace security, and my latest changes have been working to make a character less incompetent but still keep him true to his personality and social denseness. I’ve still got work ahead of me, and I’m not actually certain if I’ll finish all the edits this year, but I am making progress and that’s cool.
IWSG Question of the Month – Do you have a favorite character archetype you tend to gravitate toward in your writing?
I don’t know if it’s an archetype, but my characters tend to be dumber than a box of rocks. They are usually screwing up something because they didn’t think things through. I also have a leaning toward my characters being inappropriately unconcerned and cavalier about their situations. They’re fun to read, but alas, some people want characters to actually take things seriously every so often.
In honor of the IWSG’s anniversary, we were requested to post our books! Unfortunately, I’m still rewriting Thanmir War, I’ve pulled This World Bites, and Smoking Pen Press closed their doors so their anthologies aren’t available anymore. But there is still Full Dark, a benefit put together by our own Melissa Maygrove! So I am putting that out there. (And I should really update my links page…)
Do you enjoy editing? What are your favorite characters to write and read? Are you finding some good books this month?
About Insecure Writer’s Support Group
You can find the sign up for the IWSG here. We owe Alex J Cavanaugh a huge thank you for thinking this blog hop up.