Carol Berg
Carol Berg
Carol Berg is the author of several fantasy novels, including the books from the Rai-Kirah series, Song of the Beast, the books from The Bridge of D'Arnath series, and the Lighthouse novels. In January 2010, she introduced a new series with the release of The Spirit Lens: A Novel of the Collegia Magica...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
coworkers fairly family former hobby life lifelong math ordinary software surprised teacher took wonderful
I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!
handled
There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!
figuring plotting
I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?
flawed great historical lens stories
I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.
front until work
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
memories soul
Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.
heart shrews may
So what is this feadnach? Is it another curse that makes me beholden to slaves and shrews?' 'No, my lord. It is your heart. Difficult as it may be to comprehend, there is a possibility you may have one.
book giving demand
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.
children blood soldier
A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.
straight
Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.