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March 3, 2016 at 2:12 am #203434
1. A Plague of Rats
2. Ada Nish Pura
3. Beware the Wrath of Bunny Hopper
4. Circe’s Gifts
5. Connor of Northgate
6. Cougar: Home Run (4)
7. Danlyn’s Vision
8. Darkenss Falls
9. Devlin’s Team 1: Dancer
10. Devlin’s Team 10: Nightmares and Monsters
11. Devlin’s Team 2: Farewell to Summer
12. Devlin’s Team 3: Medusan Mutation
13. Devlin’s Team 4: Missing Persons
14. Devlin’s Team 5: The Aldebaran Stop Over
15. Devlin’s Team 6: Legend
16. Devlin’s Team 7: Pavo
17. Devlin’s Team 8: Wolf Pack
18. Devlin’s Team 9: Honor Bound
19. Don’t Go Home for the Holidays
20. Dyfed and Shannon 1
21. Elves in Space
22. Eye of Orantis
23. Faneh-Thenyal 2: Return to Faneh-Thenyal
24. Farstep Station
25. Feather in the Wind
26. Fighting for Strangers 1: Prince of the North
27. Fighting for Strangers 2: Journey to Rosewood
28. Futuristic
29. Glory Dreams Eternity: Glory
30. Home: Year 1: Crash
31. In the Service of the Queen
32. In the Shadow of Giants
33. Infiltartion
34. IWC 1: Vita’s Vengence
35. IWC 2: Badlands
36. IWC 3: Rat Pirates
37. Journey to Winter
38. Kat Among the Pigeons
39. Legend Makers1: Kinship
40. Legend of Tom Luck
41. Living Among Them
42. Living in Caine’s Hold
43. Loyalty Treason Honor
44. Mirrors
45. Mirrors 2: Reflections
46. Muse
47. Newsline 1: News from the Front
48. Newsline 2: Star Bright
49. Octavian of Keris Station
50. Of Things Dreamed
51. Outsiders: Sleeper Awake
52. Paid in Gold and Blood
53. Peri: Gift
54. Peri: Journey
55. Progressions
56. Resurrection 1: Chance and Change
57. Resurrection 2: Trouble and Trust
58. Ruins
59. Second Chance
60. Serendipity Blues
61. Shepherd Boy
62. Silky 1: Silky
63. Silky 2: Lord of The Land
64. Silky 3: The Queen’s Champion
65. Singer & St. Jude 1: Lost Cause
66. Singer & St. Jude 1:Bad Connections
67. Singer & St. Jude 1:Just Killing Time
68. Singer & St. Jude 1:Rachel Weeps
69. Sol-Altair
70. Sooma 1
71. Speaking of Shadows
72. Storm
73. Summerfield 1: Summer Storm
74. Summerfield 2: Autumn Winds
75. Summerfield 3: Winter Warning
76. Summerfield 4: Spring Break
77. Tales from the Grey, Season 1
78. Tales of Tygen: Water/Stone/Light
79. The Dark Staff: Aubreyan
80. The Dark Staff: Brendan’s Song
81. The Dark Staff: Crystal and the Stars
82. The Dark Staff: Dacey’s Dream
83. The Dark Staff: Eliora’s World
84. The Dark Staff: Freedom and Fame
85. The Dark Staff: Gathering
86. The Dark Staff: Hope in Hell
87. The Good People of Coralville
88. The Path 1
89. The Servant Girl
90. The Time and the Place
91. Touched by the Wild
92. Waiting for the Last Dance
93. While the Queen Sleeps
94. Whispers of the Past
95. Whispers of Winterwood
96. Working for the Guild
97. Written in the Sand
98. Xenation: Draw the LineSome of these novels (and I have even more shorter works) are far better than others. That’s the way it should be. You learn by writing and trying new things. If you don’t write, see what you don’t think works, and try something new the next time, you simply will not get better. All of these novels are completed in at least the first draft and every one of them had their own problems and taught me new techniques. I am within a few thousand words of finishing novel #99 and I’ll start #100 in about a week.
You learn how to write better by writing. Not by talking about it and not by poking at stories and never finishing them. Writing is more than creating a perfect line. All the lovely lines in the world will not make a book if you don’t have a plot, a start and a finish.
So finish things. Examine them and figure out what you can do differently the next time. Give yourself a chance to learn. All art takes practice, and in story creation that means more than simply writing a few words. You need to learn how to tell the entire tale. So go apply yourself to finishing things and learning from them.
March 3, 2016 at 7:58 am #247106Absolutely, though I’d add you learn to write better by writing and editing. I don’t have as many as you do, but I have many more rough drafts than I have polished stuff and the more I edit, the more I learn what to do better in the next rough draft .
She remakes mechanical devices, and he dreams of becoming a steamship captain in The Steamship Chronicles. Book 1 is free in eBook.
https://margaretmcgaffeyfisk.com/the-steamship-chronicles/March 3, 2016 at 12:47 pm #247107You amaze me, Zette. You also give me something to aspire to! LOL
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~*~March 3, 2016 at 5:30 pm #247108Thanks for the inspiration, zette! And also for the necessary kick in the butt I need to seriously return to writing. I’ve been slacking lately.
March 3, 2016 at 9:44 pm #247114Oh, that’s a good point! I keep forgetting that some people consider writing and editing as different things. For me, it is all part of writing a book.
March 3, 2016 at 9:59 pm #247132Well, the line between them was much more distinct when I hated one and loved the other…but I’ve matured a bit since then .
She remakes mechanical devices, and he dreams of becoming a steamship captain in The Steamship Chronicles. Book 1 is free in eBook.
https://margaretmcgaffeyfisk.com/the-steamship-chronicles/March 4, 2016 at 4:05 am #247109Awesome! How long has it taken you to write all these?
I agree – finishing things is really important. Finishing the first draft isn’t good enough either. Finishing as in revise and get them out the door where someone else can see it.
March 4, 2016 at 9:32 pm #247133A couple of these are from back in my teens (and there are others I didn’t list because I don’t think I could ever rewrite them into anything presentable). Most of them are from the last twenty years, though.
March 9, 2016 at 2:22 am #247110Heinlein’s Rules in action. Well done.
March 9, 2016 at 2:43 am #247111“Most are from the last twenty years.”
Wow. Just…wow.
Author of a romance between Loki and Sigyn, a dragon shapeshifter series, and a romantic fantasy with forbidden magic and a mysterious minstrel. (More at amykeeley.wordpress.com)
Also writes space opera/sociological science fiction under the name Z.A. Waterstone. (zawaterstone.wordpress.com)
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