Archives for: May 2010 - Robert Treskillard's Blog

Archives for: May 2010 May 22nd, 2010 I'm Back Working On Merlin's Shadow Written by Robert Treskillard on May 22nd, 2010 @ 01:55:29 am (778 views) Posted in The Merlin Spiral & The Pendragon Spiral, 1: Merlin's Blade, 2: Merlin's Shadow, Progress Reports, On Writing Fiction, Editing Fiction, Publishers I've decided to pick up Merlin's Shadow once more, which currently stands at 156 solidly written pages. This is book 2 in The Merlin Spiral, and I would love to start writing again. Alas! I want to delay writing fresh material for two reasons:I ju… more » Permalink 4 comments » Share, Print, Translate, and Remember The Above Blog Post: May 19th, 2010 How To Establish Your Writing Voice Written by Robert Treskillard on May 19th, 2010 @ 05:26:10 pm (483 views) Posted in On Writing Fiction, Family, Editing Fiction, Agents, Nathan Bransford Yesterday, a strange series of events happened ... all in the perfect order to cause my daughter, Ness , to have quite a fright. First off, I was mowing the lawn, and promptly got the mower stuck in a muddy section near some woods. So I'm trolling the… more » Permalink Leave a comment » Share, Print, Translate, and Remember The Above Blog Post: May 17th, 2010 My Thoughts On Authonomy Written by Robert Treskillard on May 17th, 2010 @ 02:56:51 am (511 views) Posted in 1: Merlin's Blade, Publishers, Writing Contests, Zondervan, Baker / Bethany House This is a bittersweet post to write. While I greatly enjoyed the interaction with other authors, I found—at least for now—that this site is not an easy way to get noticed by publishers, Christian or otherwise. To get the attention of an ABA publisher,… more » Permalink 2 comments » Share, Print, Translate, and Remember The Above Blog Post: May 13th, 2010 Update On My Writing—With Secret Link Written by Robert Treskillard on May 13th, 2010 @ 03:19:07 pm (595 views) Posted in The Merlin Spiral & The Pendragon Spiral, 1: Merlin's Blade, 2: Merlin's Shadow, Progress Reports, Publishers Just last night I officially finished my 10th draft of Merlin's Blade, and it is the best yet. Not only have I removed a lot of passive verbs (thanks, Scott !), but I was able to improve the writing at many, many spots. Chief among these was my… more » Permalink 3 comments » Share, Print, Translate, and Remember The Above Blog Post: May 12th, 2010 New Websites — New Blogs ! Written by Robert Treskillard on May 12th, 2010 @ 05:32:58 pm (410 views) Posted in Announcements, Family, Adele Treskillard There's been a lot of changes over here at EpicTales!We moved all of our websites to a new hosting company. The old one was no longer supporting us properly.My blog has been updated with a new design and new graphics. I hope you like it!… more » Permalink 2 comments » Share, Print, Translate, and Remember The Above Blog Post: