Five Rings

Brevity vs. Wit

Nick Enlowe — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:37:46 +0000

Brevity is the soul of wit. Except when it isn’t. I’ve thankfully been moving right along with my novel revision. (Last week falling down a flight of stairs and this week getting a kidney stone certainly didn’t help my cause, but I’m recovering well. And, as a result, I’ve been reading a lot more. I’m actually [...]

Ooh! Shiny!

Nick Enlowe — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:12:03 +0000

So I started working on my fifth story, then I realized I had nothing. My idea for stories five through eight was to follow the exploits of one character at a time through a war and interrelate all four … somehow. So I started thinking of interesting scenes and ways to correlate and show both [...]

The third and fourth stories

Nick Enlowe — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:18:57 +0000

The third story was another one that I got about halfway through, but it was far more ‘rough draft-y’ than my previous two attempts. I think it was partly just me being exhausted (read: lazy) at times, and partly because days off tend to keep me away from home, meeting those unspoken quotas for visiting friends [...]

This past week…

Nick Enlowe — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:32:04 +0000

…has taken a lot out of me. Things were busy, work was exhausting, and, well, I ended up about as far along on You Don’t Belong Here as I got on The Never-Ending Night. But there’s plenty of time left in this workshop and plenty of room for improvement. This coming week… …is lots of [...]

Another week, another concept

Nick Enlowe — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:34:58 +0000

The new week begins, so I’ll need another concept somehow related to death and cheating death, pronto! And that concept is going to come from … Life Support Machines. To me, they present an impossible choice. Especially when I was a teenager, I often wondered if I’d ever have to choose if a loved one [...]