As the month slowly winds towards an end, the rough draft of Tears of the Mountain is starting to take shape at last, with the last week being especially productive. The word count has now passed 30,000. Of that, apart from three hundred odd words, it is all of the main plot. The secondary plot [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Taking Shape
Posted: August 30, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
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Echoes of Dark Reflections Posted
Posted: August 27, 2009 in fantasy, Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Another short story has now been completed and added to the Pure Escapism collection. By my count the total amount of words between them comes in at around 96,000 now, which came as a surprise to me when I compiled the numbers. This story continues on the tale of the giant white minotaur Nhaqosa, following [...]
Making It Epic
Posted: August 26, 2009 in fantasy, World Building, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, silmarillion, World Building, writing, writing update
I first read The Silmarillion many years ago, back in high-school, and was blown away at just how epic the book was. It is pretty much my favourite book of all time, and if there was one book I wish I could have written, it is it. Now days epic seems more commonly used to [...]
Blizzard Entertainment – makers of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo and of course World of Warcraft – announced at Blizcon that they are working on the third expansion to Wow; World of Warcaft: Cataclysm. Big, big changes are in store with this expansion. Long story short. Deathwing, one of the biggest baddests of Warcraft lore, an immense, [...]
Slow Progress
Posted: August 21, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
Progress, for whatever reason, has been a little slow this month. The last 2 days have seen around 25% of the work done and the 75% over the last week. At least it is picking up a bit. I’ve managed to get 20K done so far on the rough, rough draft of Tears of the [...]
How To Stop Them Killing Each Other
Posted: August 19, 2009 in Tears of the Mountain, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
I’ve reached an interesting, and unexpected, development in the rough draft of Tears of the Mountain – two characters who actively want to kill each other. I knew they were antagonistic towards each other when plotting out the story, but I didn’t realise just how much until I started writing. The difficulty lies now in [...]
Long Lost Relics
Posted: August 18, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
I just added one of the short stories I mentioned I found the other day to the list of downloadable stories on the Pure Escapism page. This one is called Long Lost Relics. Okay, I’ll admit that there is a bit of a bad pun involved there; they story revolves around the recovery of a [...]
The Minotaur
Posted: August 18, 2009 in fantasyTags: fantasy, minotaur, minotaurs, World Building, writing
As may have been noticed in some of the short stories, I like minotaurs. While many races have been culled from the world of my writings, the minotaurs survived and thrived. I am not sure exactly where my fascination for the minotaur comes from. In Greek mythology the Minotaur was a singular creature, not a [...]
Echoes Rough Draft Done
Posted: August 17, 2009 in Pure EscapismTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Just finished off the rough draft of the Echoes of Dark Reflections short story, at slightly over 4500 words. I did this in the new minimalist rough draft style, so it will take a lot of reworking and polishing in the rewrites to get it in a readable form. Not sure how long that will [...]
Musical Interlude
Posted: August 17, 2009 in musical interludeTags: emperor of the fading suns, fading suns, music
Back in the mid-90s there was a game released that I played a lot – probably the only game I played more was Master of Orion 2. The game was called Emperor of the Fading Suns, a 4X game based on the Fading Suns RPG universe. It was a fairly grim, gothic setting. Consider it [...]
