Star Spun Souls

This post is part of a series to augment the Author's Manifesto available for free download. This and other inspirations of mine are gathered in the Spark Directory for you to explore. Find my published stories and guides in the Books Directory . As I moved deeper into my Tales of the Known World saga, I ran into some troubling issues regarding recap in my sequels. As you may know from my Workshops on Writing , I'm not a big fan of exposition. I feel like it's the death of a story, and over-explaining stuff is where readers lose interest and put a book down. For a long time, I was mired in revising the very first chapters of my second novel, Broken , though I'd finished drafting it months earlier. I just didn't seem able to get much revision done. At last, I realized the issue was that I still wasn't sure exactly what I should be doing, in terms of explaining what happened in...

This post is part of a series to augment the Author's Manifesto available for free download. The best and latest inspirations of mine are gathered here at www.DNFrost.com/spark . Find more content navigation in my Resource Directory . Also check out the books of my TotKW Saga at www.DNFrost.com/books . Recap in Sequels: NEW POST! Explore my philosophy on sequels, specifically on the level of exposition and recap they should have. I decided on approaching sequels as standalone novels, each an independent unit within the larger story. Read more of this post here... What is Spark? On this website, the spark tag refers to ideas that are mine and mine alone. It is the structural opposite of the guest tag. The inspiration & spark series shares my ideas on a multitude of subjects, like my pe...