News on Chapter 25 and Chapter 26

I have just one scene to write up for chapter 25 that I'm stuck on how to word it.  I know what I want to happen just struggling on how to put it into the right words.  I also got a good start on chapter 26, which is the last chapter for the First book in Ashes of the Fallen.   Once I have it all finished up going to plunge right into Book 2, Geometry of Souls.  Had to push back saving up money for art.  I'll start saving up money in October due to unforeseen expenditures. I'm going to be saving up for an inside art piece, cover piece and back cover piece for the First Book, In The Shadows.  The characters that shall be featured in the art pieces will be Margan, Seren, and Rudal.   The Second book I'm thinking the cover will have Kaari and the Necromancer on it.  Haven't really written a lot of it up yet, so not sure what the piece of inside art will be if it has any.  Not much more to type on my writing so I'll stop here until next time.

Song of the Grey Witch

A song/poem I've been tinkering with centered around Karla the Grey Witch from Record of Lodoss War.  She is my favorite character in Lodoss War.  And when I say Lodoss War I mean the OVA and not the stupid tv series.  Which to me lacked the depths of the OVAs.

Without further ado here it is:

Watching, watching from Shadows,
as She burns with a secret truth only She knows,
so She takes the risk and She gambles,
gambles with countless lives.
Lives are nothing to Her as she plays hero or villian as Her pawns,
She must keep it balanced like the edge of knives.

Power, Power can never be allowed to settle,
in The Darkness or The Light,
So once again with people's lives She meddles,
allowing neither side to win The Endless Fight.


She is the Eyes of Gods looking down,
From a circlet on Her forehead crowned.
Five hundred years She wanders across the land,
Causing these war to bring peace to all Lodoss.
Her tears left unshed
as She swallows countless kingdoms in bloodshed.
Her Love for Lodoss makes her blind.
To ensure Fate and History are properly carried out is Her design.
blind and deaf She ignores the People crying out in their grief,
The Secret Truth, she will not sway, not sway from Her Belief.

Watching, always watching from the Shadows,
Burning, Burning so hot with the Secret Truth only She knows.
Takings Risks and Gambling with lives,
as to bring peace to Lodoss She strives,
With time each body She discards,
like worn out garments she throws them away.
As she begins her quest again.
Endless she must struggle to keep the Peace.

Lodoss shall be saved by War,
So She believes.

Chapter Twenty Five News

I got the first scene written up for Chapter Twenty-Five.   I am quite proud how I expanded out that scene from my notes on it.  I only have two more scenes to write up for Chapter Twenty-Five and I hope they turn out as good as the first scene.  I also have in mind what two inside art pieces well be for the story.  In truth I probably can only afford two inside arts for this one and the cover picture.  It'll be the first story I've written to have inside art.  I wanted to have some inside art for my Friar Fisher and Wiccan/Hultan stories, but I didn't have enough money at the time I published them.  However this time I'm going to be waiting until I finish the Geometry of Souls (second book in Ashes of Fallen series) before I publish the first one so that should give me enough time to hopefully save up enough money for all that.  I am going to try to take 20.00 dollars out a paycheck to pay for it when I can afford to do so...which will probably be the end of September and beginning of October.

One More Chapter Done Only Three More Left

I finished writing up the final scene this early morning to Chapter 24.  Now I have only three more chapters until this first book in the series is complete.  I am so excited.  I only wished I had the money right now to buy a cover for it, along with the inside art I want for it.  I have only one scene in mind for a piece of inside art.  Once it's done I'll probably look for more scenes from the book that might be interesting to seen drawn up as picture.  Which might be hard because there are a lot of characters I like even in this first book.

I'll type more when I have more to say.

News on Chapter 24 and other chapters of Ashes of the Fallen

I have only one more scene to write up and Chapter 24 is finished.  I have outlined the rest of In The Shadows and have only three more chapters I plan on writing up for it, so the book is nearing completion.  Once I have those three chapters written I shall dive immediately into Book 2 Geometry of Souls.  Once October comes and I start getting good paychecks again at work I'm going to start putting aside money for a couple inside art and cover art for In The Shadows.   Once I have finished Book 2 Geometry of Souls and hopefully enough money for the art for the First Book, I'll have it available on the Nook.   Also I plan on releasing the Second Book in the series as soon as I complete Book 3.  I want to try and have the first three books release at least a year between each other to give people a proper chance to read them and not lose the characters or interest.  I may come out with a compilation of all three books at some point if I feel there is a market for doing that.  Not much else to type so I'll leave it go at that for now.

Chapter 24

Finally finished Chapter 23.  I am now going to be working on Chapter 24 next.  I think I already have the opening for it.  So I'll share some of it with you.

      Nadja's body convulsed as coughing wracked her sickly body.  Never before had she dwelt so long trapped in the stale aired darkness.  Her only light the few instances her meals had been brought to her cell.  How she longed to once again feel a breeze caress through her hair, and warm sunlight dance across her skin could not easily put into words.  

     Nadja had not heard, nor seen the door open as abruptly a golden brilliance engulfed her cell.  She barely managed to use her hands to shield her eyes against the light, for her chains made such movements hard and painful as the manacles cut into her wrists.

    A voice she had never heard before spoke onto her from within this golden brilliance, "Too long have you dwelt in the Darkness....."

and that's all I got for now.