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5 July 2026 I have made the first and second steps in the process of bringing this story to my hopeful audience. First, I have submitted my novel for Copyright. Second, I finally sprang for a personal website, giving me a lot more control and freedom over my delivery. On the coattails of this, I…
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1 June 2026 *Cover art concept. The actual cover will be similar but with blue leather. The final draft has been completed, and with it, one of the hardest parts of the revision process. While I am not ashamed to say that The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien and his unwritten sequel The…
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While it has been a few weeks since my last post, fear not. I finished my first revision of the story and am astounded by how well it is turning out. Character dialogue no longer drags, scenes flow with an awesome tempo, battles are more decisive, and more and more, I feel that this is…
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*PSA – I figured out how to add the comment section to my posts. Click on the Post Title and read all the way to the bottom. Thanks.* First, I was fine. Just a slight absence of my day to day. It was, for the most part, only two hours at a time in the…
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Eight months ago, I made a commitment to stop playing video games for a month. Much like dealing with withdraw symptoms, you seek a means to substitute the bad habit with a good one. When, I took up playing solo Dungeons and Dragons and not only had I completed a whole questline generated from dice…
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Today marks a few milestones in the progress of The Sword, the Song, and the Mage. First and foremost, I have completed Act 2 of the first draft. The heroes have completed several trials both external and internal in order to find the way to restore peace to their world. Now they must proceed onward…
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This weekend marks the progress of The Sword, the Song, and the Mage to the threshold of 300 pages…for the second time. I had drafted up to page 324 and was not liking the feel. Up to this point I had been taking the adventure notes and copying them over to the draft and editing…
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While there has been a long pause in my updates to this page, they are finally taking place. A few of you may already know, but I have been outlining a new novel series which feels like it holds enough weight to finally move forward and publish. It is a high fantasy, adult adventure novel…
James C Gilliam 