Mission Statement

I've tried to compose blogs in the past and they've never come to more than a post or two before they become forgotten. Largely I think that's because they were, for the most part, aimless.

So, I'm going to try to head that problem off at the pass this time, and set out a goal for this blog.

The intent of this blog is going to be about chronicling the writing of a piece, currently called "Eastgate", for this years NaNoWriMo competition. The piece itself has been slowly building in my head since last years NaNoWriMo, where I initially attempted to write the piece. Things didn't turn out as planned, and I dropped out of the competition because I didn't have enough of the story worked out to actually write it, and I felt it was a piece that demanded to actually have some thought put into it.

So, I've worked for a year, starting and stopping, outlining and brainstorming, all in an attempt to make this story work. It's gone from a story about 2 people to a story about 7 people. It's gone from the intended first book of a trilogy, to the first book of nine. I've gone from directly ripping off Tolkien to using his frame of thought as a spring board for a new world. The Tolkien ideas are still there, but now they're a part of a new tapestry.

Was it worth stalling? I think so. I think that the story now is a much stronger idea that it was this time last year. Then again, this was an idea that I only came up with on November 1 of last year.

Anyway, this blog is to chronicle the things that are going into this story. I will post as I flesh out characters, or see scenarios go in different directions than they had before. I will not post pieces of the story, and I'll try by best to avoid lots of specific story spoilers, because frankly I've found that keeping the story to yourself on the first draft helps you get through it.... it also helps keep the tiny insecure critic in the back of my head from overrunning the story.

So, here we go....