October 27, 2009 – 11:16 am
(I know, I know…this has nothing to do with Allison’s story that I started-but-haven’t-yet-finished, and it’s not pictures of Scotland…but I’ve been letting this blog slide because I’ve been limiting myself to only posts that fit certain categories. So from now on…all I can promise is that my posts will have something to do with writing or Scotland.)
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So I got this new story idea yesterday morning, also set in the fantasy world of Jarentho. Who knows…maybe this’ll be book #2 some day!
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Sixteen-year-old Solen longs for adventure. He wants to save the city, escape from danger, and rescue a beautiful girl. But there’s a problem. None of the girls–beautiful or not–need saving. And even if a raider did manage to kidnap one of them, they certainly wouldn’t want him for their rescuer. They’d want someone handsome, someone tall, someone amazing. Someone else.
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Nelca watched Solen from her place in the shadows. On the surface, he appeared to be the most unremarkable of this very-ordinary-looking group of guys. Yet, thanks to the gift Malkior had bestowed upon her, she saw something more. Something that beckoned in his future. Something woven from the threads of destiny and power. Something that made him not so ordinary after all.
October 24, 2009 – 7:38 pm
I did a workshop presentation today titled “Networking Your Way to a Contract.” I’m currently typing in the handout that I wish I’d thought to have ready today, instead of the shorter one I did pass out.
So…if anyone who attended the workshop (or anyone who didn’t but is interested anyway) would like me to email a copy of this note-filled handout, just let me know!
September 12, 2009 – 3:07 pm
Jarentho is a city in the fantasy story I’m now writing. It’s an old city in its declining years, set on a cliff at the edge of the sea…a bit like Dunnottar. This castle sits on a rocky outcropping on the North Sea, and its easy to tell at a glance how difficult it would be to attack.
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Jarentho is an entire city, rather than a castle. Here’s a clip from my work-in-progress…
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Rys followed her as she made twist after turn until the city walls loomed ahead. She led the way to a small door in them, murmured a word to the man guarding it, and soon he was traveling down a staircase that corkscrewed beneath the city.
She took several turns down intersecting passageways, through another door, and they stepped into the last rays of sunset onto a small, rocky beach that nestled beneath the city’s cliff-hugging walls.
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