/ en-US Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:04:05 -0700 60 / 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg /author_blog_posts/18668569-experiential-learning-styles Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:04:05 -0700 /author_blog_posts/18668569-experiential-learning-styles When I'm creating a novel, when I'm the Author persona, here's what happens...

Experiencing: I go along in life challenging myself to capture and remember experiences, people, and sensory things.

Imagining: I ask the "What if..." questions, the nebula where ideas form.
Reflecting: This is where I find the themes, the crucible to a story's meaning.

Thinking: Structuring the plot, laying out the acts.

Initiating: At some point, I begin writing scenes as fast as I can, in no particular order except as they appear in my mind.

Acting: The process becomes regular, so many hours, so many words, session after session.

Deciding: I make choices that affect story points, character arcs, and compare these with my concept of the plot.

Analyzing: I step back and start to connect scenes, chapters. I look at overused words, sentence construction, and multiple other errors.

Balancing; This is the revision process. Adding here, deleting there, until the novel is a unified whole.

posted by Vee James on August, 02 ]]> /author_blog_posts/18488957-neccabashar-ii-the-sequel Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:35:00 -0700 /author_blog_posts/18488957-neccabashar-ii-the-sequel
posted by Vee James on June, 19 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16254994-migrated-to-kdp Sun, 21 Jan 2018 11:43:32 -0800 /author_blog_posts/16254994-migrated-to-kdp This is not an announcement of a new publication but I wanted to note that I've migrated all books from Pronoun (a now-defunct McMillan publisher) to KDP. For the moment, I'll be exclusively on KDP.
I wrote a sequel to "Neccabashar" in November and I'm in revision on that. I have a lot of demands on my time right now but hope to publish this in the spring.

posted by Vee James on February, 22 ]]> /author_blog_posts/15158663-what-s-on-your-summer-reading-list Fri, 19 May 2017 04:25:52 -0700 /author_blog_posts/15158663-what-s-on-your-summer-reading-list This summer I'm doing quite a mix of fic and non-fiction. Just finished Michael J Sullivan's "Age of Myth", "Presto" by Penn Juliette, "Hell Divers" by Nicholas S Smith, "The Serpent of Venice" by Christopher Moore, and "Boneshaker" by Cherie Priest.
Currently reading "Super Powered" by Drew Hayes and "When I Snap My Fingers You Will Remember Everything".

posted by Vee James on October, 14 ]]>