The Monsters Are Free – WIP No. 1 – Isto
Here it is. I’m finally getting around to writing about my WIPs. I’ve divided them into three categories: Origination Stories, Niniers, and Cera Chronicles.
Color Key:
Green – Production ready
Aqua – High Priority
Blue – Medium Priority
Purple – Low Priority
Today’s featured WIP is Isto, book 2 of the Niniers.
Each of the Niniers novels follows an idea:
Book 1 – Discovery
Book 2 – Consequences
Book 3 – Revenge
Book 4 – Recovery
If you haven’t read Thanmir War then the following information may come as a spoiler. To safeguard any spoiler haters, I’ve used spoiler tags.
Tag Line and POVs (Click to Show)
Working Tag Line: He saved his wife. Now he has to save the world from his wife.
POVs (plus Male and Female Character Archetype):
Derek (Main Character) – The Woman’s Man
MaTisha – The King
Cameron – The Business Man
LaTonya – The Amazon
Perspective: Third Person Limited
I even busted out my sketchpad for you.
Istos are monsters introduced in Thanmir War. Some people consider them superstitions or stories intended to frighten children. They are blamed for many things, including livestock deaths and unexplained murders. There’s a misconception that they are the vengeful dead, returned to terrorize the living. That’s not true. But the tales did get something right.
They can’t be killed.
There’s a distinction in my mind between eternal and immortal. The elementals are eternal. They won’t die, unless they’re killed—but they can be killed. The istos are truly immortal. They are energy. They can’t be created or destroyed. But they are ever-thirsty for their missing half.
In Isto, the main character faces the consequence of decisions made in Book 1.
Thanmir War Ending Decision (Click to Show)
Derek used the niniers to steal the Drethamir’s power and bring MaTisha back to life. Doing so threw off the balance between dark and light, illusion and reality, death (Miasho) and life (Drethamir). That imbalance sets off a series of events, including: an illness plaguing anyone stemming from both powers, monsters breaking free of the “in between” and hunting down the opposite power, and a breach in security, which allows the elemental fugitives to escape the mines where they had been imprisoned.
Derek must find a way to save himself from the illness before he dies and takes the world with him. MaTisha combats her desire to feed off of and kill Miasho upholders, including Nicholas, her former guardian. LaTonya’s guardians were killed by the Miasho istos, and she’ll stop at nothing to get her revenge. Cameron faces treason and banishment, while inheriting powers from his real mother—a woman who wasn’t his father’s wife.
The sketch is actually of MaTisha.
Research required: Jewish mythology, Physics
Major Questions Asked: Why would monsters choose to kill a certain group of people? How do you restore balance to a world? How was I going to get my characters out to a set of islands they didn’t know about?
Chapter 1 Opening Line: Everyone he loved ended up dead.
Playlist:
Isto by Loni Townsend on Grooveshark
There’s a lot more I could say about my WIP, but I’m not sure how much information is too much. I had a panic-inducing change in Thanmir War, which led to major rewrites in Isto. I still haven’t fully recovered. Slowly, but surely, I am gaining ground.
Do you like to read series? How many projects can you work on at one time? Is there any information you’re curious about?
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