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June 4, 2012
Raven – introduction
This is an introductory blog post discussing my upcoming Novella, Raven. I’m struggling somewhat to complete it and it is my hope that these posts will help me get the rest out of my head and out into the world.
Religious iconography and biblical myth have always fascinated me. Something that continually prompts me to consider the cosmic war for the souls of humanity that many think rages, unseen, around us every day. Combine that with gothic imagery and mood from a movie like “The Crow” and y...
June 3, 2012
Creating Realistic Characters, pt. 4
If looks could kill…
I’ve read stories where every minute detail of a characters appearance was described over pages of narrative. I’ve read stories where a characters physical details where hardly mentioned at all.
Regardless of the detail, the characters believability was aided or hampered by its consistency with their environment.
Remember the movie Legend? If you watch the director’s cut and listen to the commentary by the director, Riddely Scott, he will relate a moment when he proposed por...
June 1, 2012
The Ghost Lights
I don’t get to travel half as much as I would like too. If someone would pay me to travel the world, I’d do it in a heart beat and birth books along the way.
However, I was able to check off one of my “bucket list places to be” recently. Ever since I heard the stories about the Ghost Lights or Marfa Lights, I’ve wanted to go.
Obviously, unexplained phenomena fascinates me, so the week before I went back to work, I talked my dad into piling into the Jeep with me and driving 10 hrs out into the W...
May 30, 2012
The People Circus
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Authors Notes
The character of Ralik first appeared in the ebook novel The Darkwater Adventurer’s Guild: Apprentice,available online for all the major e-readers. If you would like to read more about the origins of Ralik, feel free to sample or buy it, and write a review if you have the time. Thank you for reading this short story, I hope you will enjoy it.
From a rooftop Ralik and Doran watched in wide eyed amazement as the caravan trundled by below them. All manne...
Creating Realistic Characters, pt. 3
Occupations.
Do you give it much thought when creating your characters? Some characters are build around their occupation and the story is also heavily based on what they do for a living (ie. James Bond, etc.) These characters have personalities that are tailor made for their occupations.
What about the other way around? Many writers create characters that are not an extension of their work. For instance, in my upcoming novella, Raven, Jarod is an ex-con. Now it would not make much sense for hi...
May 27, 2012
Creating Realistic Characters, pt.2
Yesterday I read a post over on darkmediacity.com on originality. This is sometime a major concern with writers. Everyone would like to come up with the consummate original idea.
Personally, I believe that the original idea is more a myth than a fact and those who make the claim on an idea, do so simply out of ignorance. They are simply unaware of the ideas that have influenced the idea they claimed to be original.
Writers put a lot of pressure on themselves to be original.
Although story lines...
May 26, 2012
Creating Realistic Characters, pt.1
Characters are arguably the most important part of any story. Sometimes you have a story solely about a place or a thing, but the majority of stories happen around a character.
Consider your own life for a moment. As you travel through this time and space we refer to as reality, a story is constantly unfolding around you in which you are a part. It is this element in our own lives that allows us to become attached, to empathize, or to identify to an otherwise fictional character in a story tha...
April 18, 2012
Helios Darkended
It is 1043 B.C., Troy has fallen and a dark age has fallen over the lands of the Aegean. Apollo, angered at the imprisonment of his mortal consort Aennea, and her son by Minos the King of Crete, has commanded the bright disk of Helios to cease his trek across the sky.
Without the assistance Helios’ power, Hades has lost control of the gates to the lands of the dead, spewing forth hordes of dark creatures bent on the the torment of men.
As Aennea’s son, Thaleus, comes of age, the young demigod t...
