A.D. Truax's Blog

Hey everyone, I now have a Patreon page! If you've enjoyed my stories at all over the past several years, or are a new reader, I'd appreciate it if you would check it out! Donating can get you some cool rewards and extra goodies related to my stories.

A new chapter of the Tenebrism rewrites has been posted: you can read it here!

For those of you who read and enjoyed Pretty Shade of Grey, I've just put up a one-shot companion story to it called Home Free, that takes place in the summer directly following the events of the story. It's about 18K words and comes in two parts/chapters.

You can read it here!

So, I figured I'd give a brief little update on the status of things and of upcoming things, and my schedule for those things.

the rest of October:
I'm going to try and finish up the last chunk of that Skigraphia chapter. It's the shortest (meaning like 10k) so I think this is feasible. Then it'll go to beta, be combined with the other chunk I already posted, and go up on fictionpress.

Also, will be doing lots of NaNo plotting.

November:
NaNoWriMo! I'm going to be retackling the sequel to Polar...

I hooked up my blogger account to my Goodreads blog thing, so that entries in the former will show up in the latter. I'm not on Goodreads much (read, never) and so this will be a way I can talk about updates and things without actually being on Goodreads. Because I talk a lot about updates and things, but mostly on LJ and tumblr, where people who are on Goodreads often aren't following me. So this can be a way to keep my Goodreads account looking more active! Especially with half of my storie...

This post inspired by another conversation I had with my friend about her writing.

She was telling me about her next book that she has just finished revising, and she was explaining stuff about it to me and how between X time and Y time in the novel (X time being when aliens sent a missive to Earth and Y time being when Earth actually responded), all the aliens died. The characters/story are taking place after Y time, when humans have come to this abandoned alien planet. And I said, “what hap...

I’ve found another thing to write a blog post about! The dreaded WORD COUNT.
Recently I’ve had some encounters with word count woes that make me want to talk about it. Firstly was this post on tumblr, taken from Nic Alderton but shared and probably called the most attention to by Neil Gaiman:

This is a very nice, simple, stripped-to-the-basics concept. But there’s something very wrong about this very simple, stripped-to-the-basics concept. It includes a limitation. It tells you that the basics...

So a list of "synonyms" (loosely accurate) for the word 'said' was making rounds on tumblr. I saw a lot of people getting real hyped up about it, to the likes of;  "USE THIS, AUTHORS!" and "gonna print this out a million times and put it up all over my walls!" and "I hate it when authors only use 'said' in a story!"

Well, that's awesome. Great thing to be into writing and expanding your vocabulary. Not so much with this list:
This is the type of list (in fact, it may be the exact list, it...

I've started this because LJ is slightly unprofessional. Not that I'm a professional, but you know. Someday. And I'm using my decided-upon penname as well.