More on Ashes of the Fallen

Looking at the First Book, In the Shadows I realized that the names for characters are just wrong for the cultures I was setting up so I started fixing that some.  Hopefully it makes the story better and more well rounded.  I also realized I was rushing things to much to get to scenes I really wanted to write.  So I'm going to slow it down some and write more scenes so you get to spend more time with the characters, even minor seeming ones to make the story fill more well rounded as I said earlier.   I worked some on re-writing the first chapter of In the Shadows; but not got more then a few new paragraphs.  I want to get back into the flow of things.   I haven't worked much at all on Princess of Darkness, but I just ordered the newest to be released VHD book, so there's hoping that inspires me to work some more on my Friar Fisher and Wiccan stuff too.   Not much else to tell on my writing or writing at the moment so type to more later.

Wiccan and Friar Series and the Hellaquin

My characters in Ashes of the Fallen aren't feeling real enough to me.  They feel like they don't exist outside of the frame work of the story so I decided to take a short break from the Ashes of the Fallen to work on Princess of Darkness.   Which brings me to what or rather who I am going to talk about in this entry.  There is a character a friend made up for the world of Wallachia RPG/stories of Friar Fisher which I shall call the Hellaquin as don't want to give out the real name of the character my friend created.  He was supposed to write a parallel story or rather a story in the same world as Friar Fisher exists in; but he is having trouble with writing it.   This is a character who's story I would very much like to read.   And in fact I am going to give him a cameo in Princess of Darkness.  Though given what the character is, unless someone is really looking they may not even recognize the character as the Hellaquin.

The idea of the character is based off of French legend I think, about a demonic court jester, hence the term I'm using of Hellaquin.  I think that's what he was called in the legend roughly.  

Moving on I'm going to try to work on both Princess of Darkness as I try to rework/re-think how to make my Ashes of the Fallen Characters more realistic.

I guess that's all I have to say for now.  Type more later.

Videos By Writer

Inspirational, and good advice I think.

Update

I've been working on my writing, however I haven't finished Chapter 13 but am going back over the earlier chapters since I'm stuck on 13 at the moment.   I realized after reading Guardian of the Spirit that not all my characters were human or real enough, so I'm going back and fixing that some.  So though I've not been progressing forward at least I'm writing something on this Ashes of the Fallen project.

Bad Writer

I am such a bad writer.  I haven't really written anything.  I've just been feeling so tired lately and uninspired to work on anything.   I just think maybe I'm losing my touch at writing, which I don't want to happen; but I find it hard to go to the keyboard and actually type a story. A fact which is sad since I still love to write and tell tales.  I hope I get back into it as these ideas within my head are too good to just let them slide from me into the ash piles.   I apologize for not updating this in a long time.  But I won't go into details of why I feel so tired and uninspired as this is a log for about writing and more in point, my writings.

I have some days off coming up, hopefully I use them productively and spend at least one day working on my writing, even if it is not the Ashes of the Fallen stuff.   I'm not sure what's more popular in the market; Dark Fantasy such as my Hultan/Friar Series or the Standard Fantasy Genre with Elves and Knights and stuff like that.   But then I shouldn't be looking at it from that as a real writer.  A real writer has a story inside him/her and they have a burning desire to tell this story.   It's not about what will sale well or not.  It's what you got inside of you.  That's all that matters, and I have to keep telling myself that and to get back to my writing.   Maybe writing this entry may spark something in me to return to my writings.  Who knows.   Thanks to those that read this and hopes you enjoy my ramblings.  Later.

Pffft Writers...such lazy people :P

Lame I know but it's been a while and I've not really been doing much writing.  So I apologize.

Struggling with Chapter 13

I think it's the summer heat and my lazy nature; but been staring still at the evil chapter 13 and keep deleting it as I don't like what I keep typing; but I've finally satisifed with something I was able to write today for Chapter 13..and it's not much as don't know where to take it from here.  But thought I'd share a little of what I have written as part of Chapter 13.  Again, it is not much.  Only a little teaser of things in the Ashes of the Fallen universe's first book.

"The walls shrank in about Nadja, as she sat huddled up on the cot with her legs drawn up to her breasts.  She hated being trapped within the confines of this cell; with it’s near darkness and stale, damp air.  And worst of all the acute scent of mold growing on the far wall.   "

Sorry to say that's all i have been able to come up with so far for this chapter. Maybe I should take a break over the summer on my writing and return to it when it's more cool outside and I can focus better.