Its hard to know where to start, where to plant the flag of reference for people to start from when looking at me as a writer or as a person.
I have always been interested in the fantastical both in films, books and art. Im sure it is the dream of everyone to have a book published, a record made or a picture painted, an accomplishment which will last beyond our days.
My background is in role-playing from which I have developed narrative elements of plot, pace, action and intrigue, but one thing that has haunted most current and recent authors is the moniker of being a "rpg" novel author. This is simply because novels that are written either based on an existing campaign or group of characters will be self indulgent, while at the same time be of very little depth.
Writing a novel will demand more than just the ability to put a few ideas together, collect scraps of memories, but my biggest lighthouse warning sign will be if anyone mentions the dreaded Dragonlance Chronicles or some-such "hack-novels".
This story evolved out of a need to have a back story to the whole campaign, to know what was really going on behind the scenes of the main stage, a glimpse of behind the creator's curtain. From this then came the Orchid. A simple story of a misfit crew and their combined troubles onboard. But the story is so much more than that.
I have a beginning, middle and an end.
I have a whole troupe of characters who surprise me, because they are living breathing people, who incidently no longer belong to the players, but have become something much bigger
I have 3 chapters written so far, and working on some more, in and out of sequence.
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