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04:55 Aug 18 2014
Times Read: 385

I deleted the excerpt I had up because it simply didn't go in right but there is information on where it is located on my own website. Paragraphs and dialogue won't break apart properly. Quotation marks were missing in some cases not to say I might not have forgotten them in the rough draft :) With eight chapters from a rough draft posted, there was too much work to fix all the problems it had when I entered it.



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http://museinme.webs.com/ardeth

BEYOND THE DREAMS: Ardeth



©2014 RKB



BOOK ONE





This is an extension of the first series. None of them have been edited much. I find if I leave them and go back I find the mistakes easier and revising is simpler as well. My memory isn't that good and I forget a lot of things so when I read them after a couple of months it is fresh to me and sometimes I find better insights. I've chosen not to publish any of them in book form because the editors for one, don't agree. I like to write so I created things for fun. If you want to know about three characters I reprised in the new story you can find them on the link in the middle of my profile page where it says Click Here. They're in the book about Maeve. The main character and her Triumvirate have not been in any previous books devoted to them. You can find the link at the top of my profile as well if you like click and go :)



I'm in the process of rewriting some of the first book...too much narrative. It will stay up as is until I finish that but even with all of that you can still get the idea of what I'm writing about...essentially vampires that need sexual energy. I rarely use that term throughout. They get their energy in a very different way. It's a little more complex than what I can go into here.

Writing, ugh.
09:19 Aug 16 2014
Times Read: 424

The most difficult things for me are style, wordiness because I'm a wordy person, cerebral. Cliche' I'll smack the next person that even mentions that word. I consider it opinion since everyone writes cliche's. There's almost no way around it. Sick of hearing about it. There are obvious one's but sometimes the characters are full of them because of the way they speak, the time period and personality. I use to try to completely avoid that but you have no idea how many things and phrases are considered cliche' you'd never guess. I also write too much narrative. I notice a lot of that in the Vampire Chronicles. She is a thinker and people like that are story tellers more than letting the characters fill in the detail. I end up writing things over and over because it is a weakness. I went back and found out my first in the series has one chapter that is nothing but that...rewrite is coming soon, lol.



What is bothering me is I'm finding documentation about the cultures in my books that is boggling my mind. I use real cultures but make up the backgrounds and certain aspects on my own to fit the stories. In other words, fictionalize history and the culture to a degree. I go back and do more research and find out certain words I used and sometimes descriptions are accurate. I don't know how to explain this but I will name something in the culture and find out they had them, maybe not exactly as I represent them but they had them. For instance I might call someone a commander of such and such and come to find out they had that organizations or that title in that area of government. They used the same word as the name. Something I had never read about but found out after the fact. It's starting to get crazy and almost scaring me.