Why do I call it the "Insignificant" Series

Picture Well honestly it all started because every time I read a high-fantasy book it's loaded with heroes.  Even Bilbo Baggins was a hero.  Oh yeah he started out a nothing but before the story ends...well!!   So it seems to me every time a wizard waves his wand or a gang of Orcs storms a village, everyone dies!  Guess that's normal in Fantasy.  In some stories thousands of people die and the reader is never even told their names.   So I thought why not write about those people!   So I started with Odie, a simple innkeeper and the first "short story" was about him.  But you can't have a story about just one insignificant, can you?   So by the end of 44 pages I introduced an entire town full.  Well, then my daughter said emphatically, "Dad, I'm an ordinary person and I don't consider myself insignificant!"   So anyway the more I write about these people the more she is correct and in fact most will eventually become heroes in their own right.  However, I tray to give most characters names and personalities, even if their role is small.   The series was already named...so that's it!
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Published on August 26, 2014 15:21
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