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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Change of plans!

Okay, so I was originally going to post each story one at a time chapter by chapter on a weekly basis, but instead as was suggested by my mother, I will be posting chapters from one of two stories every week.  The first I have already posted what is essential the preface/introduction and the first chapter of is Arcana, the other which is actually meant for a different aged audience is a story that I am currently working on called Written.

I can't do Written the justice of having created an introduction, it didn't really flow for the story and here is why:

While working out new programs for the library I work at with our Youth Services Librarian, we ended up coming back to an idea to do a Dungeons & Dragons game at the library for teens.  After looking at it very seriously for a while we ended up stumbling along into creating our own adventure.  At first it was just a simple story line, but the more we discussed it, and the more the kids played it, the more it grew.  It ended up turning into an all out epic.  They have nearly successfully played through the first book, which is to say that they are doing well enough given that I am a devious Dungeon Master.  When we last left off they were facing down over a hundred enemies in a battle that anyone who relishes Fantasy will remember fondly.  In any case, the story was created around these kids playing a game, and so they are present in the story to the best of my abilities to give them their respective voices.  I have chosen to make the story have 3 main characters, in hopes that it would be easier to write than dealing with all of the characters as being just as important, even though we all know that they are in a D&D game.  What follows now is as best an introduction I think I can manage for it, and early next week I will post "Chapter 1: The Setup."

Everyone knows that really excellent books tend to capture your imagination.  The book will figuratively suck you into its world and immerse you in its splendor and suspend your disbelief.  It is generally believed that you wouldn't know the title of your own story, or the story that you reside.  To know would require you to Travel to other worlds and see your book, which would no longer contain you.  There are those who are skilled at Finding the story of others, and gaining extra knowledge along the way.  And then there are those that Write their own story, carving their own path.  This story reflects those unsung heroes that must band together and live a story sung by few, and often overlooked.  This story is Written, so that you may read that story, and tell those that would otherwise never have known.

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