AuthorisedGardian

This was me last night, I had this stupid neighbour playing really loud "music" if it can fairly be called that, so I got out of bed and hit the ceiling a few times with my sword, they got the hint. When in doubt, use your sword, it solves most issues.

I know I haven't posted in quite a long time, there is a good reason for that. My book is very close to being complete, I'm just in the last stages of reading through it myself and doing some final edits.

Once I've done that then I'll be looking for some more beta readers. If anyone is interested in books such as The Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid or honestly just mythology in general then let me know as you're very likely to enjoy my work as they are my biggest inspirations.

Other than history, as the book really starts to get going I introduce necromancy and that certainly begins to play a much larger role. One of my main goals with having necromancy in my book is to show the true potential it has, I hate how so much media just leaves it at big horde of skeletons or zombies. Sure that does have its place but I end up going so much deeper with undead and necromancers in general.

Not enough stories or even media in general utilise necromancy to its fullest potential. If I knew necromancy I would go around and bring back to life all of my favourite historical people. I bet more people would devote the time to finding the tombs of ancient people such as Genghis Khan or one of my personal favourites, Alexander the Great whose tomb has still not been know as far as I'm aware. Instead no it's always here are a few skeletons, if you're lucky the odd zombie here and there.

So many possibilities that never get put to use, I know probably in part due to people viewing necromancy as such a negative thing. Even with skeletons which are seemingly more common, why always make them so weak, I can think of multiple ways to make even a simple skeleton more special. If you still want it basic then just having some cool armour would be better sometimes compared to all the bare boned ones walking around. Obviously there are exceptions to everything I'm saying and there are some cool necromancers in media out there but I feel like it is usually worse more than it is good.

I figured it's about time I actually start talking about my book a little bit seeing as I'm now over 80,000 words in, so let's begin with the genre and my inspirations.

Like many out there I am writing an Epic Fantasy with some darker parts to the world, but as to my inspirations that I believe is where I differ from most. I'm a massive history/mythology nerd, I've spent my entire life reading classics such as The Iliad, Odyssey and The Aeneid. I've of course read others too, one of my favourite books is actually The Epic of Gilgamesh. But back too my point, my books and short stories take very heavy inspiration from all of these ancient books that I've read and I feel like that has allowed me to create a more unique world that still has a sense of familiarity for those who enjoy history or mythology. If you're a history fan then I'm sure you'll enjoy my book when it is released, I would be surprised if you didn't

I'm like this except it's for the title of my book/books, arguably one of the most important parts. I'm now roughly 78,000 words in and I still haven't decided on a title, I've definitely put a lot of thought into it and many notes but still the right one hasn't come to me yet.

I saw this today and thought I would share, it's odd timing because the past month or so I have been thinking exactly this. I may be wrong or my information might be out of date and do correct me if I am wrong but I think there are maybe only two western authors who have had their manga turned into anime. When I say anime I do mean Asian as I personally think western animation is very different.

Recently I've been thinking how probably after I finish my first book I would love to adapt it into a manga and one day get an anime made of it. A probably extremely ambitious goal but might as well aim high and go for what I truly want.

I also think at least in the modern day that animation can bring better adaptations compared to live action, especially with books/manga that involve large armies, sieges or anything like that. Of course there will likely always be exceptions though.

I stopped worrying very long ago, I just accept it at this point.

I think too many people are afraid of making things too dark even when it is supposed to be and then it takes any impact away from the story. Fair enough if you worry about yourself when writing certain scenes but do not let it take away from your story/book, let your readers feel how you feel.

I've done this in the middle of the night before. At first I said to myself that I would remember (I rarely did remember), but then I decided it's best to just note something down to help myself remember. At first I was just like the image above but over time in my very tired state I have started to put some more coherent notes together.

I remember one day I had an idea for an entire story/book and it actually kept me up because I couldn't stop thinking about it. I ended up not making any notes but fortunately this is one that I remembered in the morning.

Although I always have some form of plan or idea on where I want to go and how I'm going to make it happen, I've lost count of how many times I've decided to change certain aspects or rarely even do something entirely different. I am at the mercy of my own brain, I merely follow along.

Even my first chapter which introduces two of the races that are present in my world and their relationship with each other, I've gone back to change over time, mainly just adding certain details or improving already existing ones.

The stuggles of being a writer.

A well earned break.

Really putting "never too late" to the test. Though if done well I think it can be cool, for example Zuko in The Last Airbender.

I actually have a rather long story regarding this but I'll summarise a little bit. I'm still writing my first book but I've already got plans/ideas for making it into a potentially long series.

A long time ago I was actually developing a game and I figured one of the best ways to sell it would be to create some lore for it. So I started writing about this small war called The Founders War (More on that in my actual book), originally this was going to be maybe at most 3-5 paragraphs. Of course that didn't exactly go as intended and this led to me realising it was actually quite cool and I developed it further, into something bigger than just some random small war.