Why do People Write?

So I thought I’d start of by talking about something that happened to me the other day while having dinner with two other writers. We were all talking about our various projects when one of them asked, “So what is it that inspires each of us to write? What is your end goal in authoring?”

It was a great question, perhaps the most important question you can ask an author. What drives someone to spend months and years to craft a saga, create a world and populate it with (hopefully) interesting characters?

Is it the thought of riches and fame? Just wanting to tell stories and share ideas, or possibly the thought of some form of immortality? Each of us had a different answer.

One of us just likes the idea of creating. He wasn’t even that interested in the success of the project, just the shear joy of creating something unique. The other author wanted fame and the chance to craft interesting stories. They both looked at me awaiting my answer. I thought about it for a moment and realized what I really enjoyed about writing, was the process of playing with history, and building a world that helped explain a mystery in our own “reality.”

Perhaps it was a strange answer, but that’s the one I gave. When Wynn Mercere and myself created the City of the Gods, the idea was partly to explain why mankind stopped believing in gods and magic. “What if the Gods were really here –why did they leave and where did they go?” That’s the underlying theme.

Once we created the world, the characters started to present themselves to us and their stories flowed forth. We used their personalities to help explain the mystery of the gods. So there’s more going on in the book then you might notice at first – I’ll just leave it at that. You’ll have to read the book to see what I mean.

We’ll be expanding and writing in the City of the Gods Universe for the foreseeable future, so if you liked the first book, I promise you, there’s more to come. We are already well on our way on the second book, and in February we are be releasing Mythic Tales: City of the Gods, an anthology starring many of the main characters from our first novel. We’ve set this collection of short stories to work as an introduction to the world for those that haven’t read the first book and as a deepening of the back-story of many characters for those that have. (More about that next time.) Meanwhile, I’ll post the Novel's Chapbook for you, so you can give it a test drive. You can get it on Amazon, as a paperback or for your Kindle - Just search for City of the Gods: Forgotten or visit http://www.cityofthegods.com