Kenn Ghannon: Blog

...written a story and believed it to be so good, so perfect, people would fall on their faces bowing to its awesomeness? Only to have your editors come to you and shower the tale with red ink?

This is what has happened to me.

'Fairly CAPable' is complete. Sort of. It's written - but, as my editors can attest, it is poorly written. Evidently, I don't right English two goodly. I also have spent way too much time bending time and space into pretzel and Möbius strip (hey - it worked for Tony Stark, damn it!) shapes that time and space were not meant to be bent into. I have, effectively, waved my hand in delighted parting with the canon with which so many other Swarm Authors have paid strict compliance.

Needless to say, 'Fairly CAPable' will not debut this Tuesday. My editors and I have a lot of work ahead of us to turn this tale into something which is not only legible but fits into accepted Swarm Universe boundaries.

Please don't think poorly of me - or I might jest mek u red the storey as me've righten it naow.

I had intended on beginning the posting of 'Fairly CAPable' on Tuesday, February 04, 2020. However, after reviewing my schedule - and having a realistic look at things - I can't do it.

Instead, I'm going to push it to Tuesday, February 18, 2020 (if it's any help at all, I WAS thinking about postponing it until February 29 - because I feel it would be a most auspicious day to start a story, but...).

I apologize for the delay - but, hey, at least now you know when to expect it! :)

Thanks for reading,
Kenn Ghannon

Probably not politically correct - but then, neither am I.

I hope whatever Supreme Being you worship or hold dear grants you a wonderful holiday and a happy and prosperous new year.

I've completed principle writing on Calix's next adventure in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Universe - 'Fairly CAPable'. So far, pending editing, review, canon checks and so on, it's coming in at about 34 VERY UNEVEN chapters. Some are 20 pages, some are 4-6 (and I even know of one that is just over 2 pages). It couldn't be helped but there you go.

Once it's finished going through the process, I'll start posting. I would estimate sometime in late January or early February but please don't hold me to it.

Runesward, Tome 2 is coming along. I started adding a plot line I hadn't planned to begin until Tome 3 - but it works better in Tome 2 because I moved where the _______ come from. It's caused a bit of chaos along the way but I'm working it out. I'm hoping to start posting that story sometime after 'Fairly CAPable' but no obvious timeline for now.

Thanks for reading,
Kenn Ghannon

Since my last blog, Real Life has decided to jump up and bite me on the butt - hard, long and with feeling. I won't share my tale of woe because no one likes a sob story but suffice it to say, the last time I was able to write a word - any word - was months and months ago. Luckily, I'm alive and breathing and working to get back to Runesward Tome 2, Calix's sequel and other things I have lying around my file folders. I only ask you bear with me because it's going to take a bit.

I have a method when a story has languished for some time - I need to re-read it in order to get back in the character's heads. I'm working on it now but it's a bit of a long process. Again, please have some patience.

Just happy to be here,
Kenn Ghannon

I thought I'd give a little update.

Basically, I took the majority of the summer off. I spent it with family and friends, moved a daughter to a new apartment, spent time lounging around and so forth. I wrote when I felt the urge - but it wasn't always writing on current projects and it wasn't always anything good.

For those who don't know, I go through a bit of a process when actually writing. Typically, I type off anywhere from four to twenty pages at once (sometimes even more, when I can fully concentrate). When my concentration gets broken (by the wife, an alarm telling me its time to do something or etc.), I save everything and put it away. Then, I let it percolate in my brain for a day or so.

The next time I get the urge, I come back and READ WHAT I PREVIOUSLY WROTE. I'm usually unhappy with it and spend a bit of time tweaking things, changing logical fallacies I saw through during the percolation and so on. Occasionally, I'll be so disgusted by what I wrote that I scrap it (by cut and pasting it to a different document and saving the document in case I want to revisit a theme I was focused on).

Sometimes, I just start reading from the beginning to make sure I've not really awful changes in tone.

I'm working on the sixteenth chapter of Runesward, Tome 2. I wrote about twelve pages yesterday. I hate all of them. I like the points but the way I wrote them is choppy - and it's going to bother my OCD until I re-write the thing. I absolutely like (and, more importantly, need) the points I made, I just don't like the way I wrote them. Worse, there is a definite end goal of the chapter that I didn't even START to address in those twelve pages. I could leave what I have written and start a new chapter - but this chapter doesn't move the plot along at all; it mostly clarifies why certain events occurred in the previous chapter.

Anyway, that's a small look into my mind and my processes. Tome 2 is looking to come in somewhere around between 25 and 30 chapters (just a ball park) so I have a lot of writing to do. I'll try to keep everyone much more informed without giving away any salient plot points.

-KG