I’m writing this post a little bit ahead of time, and today (when I write this), I just starting plotting out the next book in the Magorian & Jones series. Book title is (currently — and remember that everything might yet change): The Triumph of Felix. If this is your first time on the site […]
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I had a good morning, building the book, this morning. I even took some time out to write the biographies of the two main characters. But the problem I came across was that the biographies wouldn’t make a lot of sense without at least the first book outline in place to set up the milieu.
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I got to work on the story for the first book today, and possible series arcs, too. It’s finally starting to come together. I still don’t know the full story yet, but in the next day or two, I’ll nail it. It’s a complex story. The worldbuilding and character building alone makes the book thick
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Tolkien was brilliant at backstory. Scratch the surface of any of his characters in The Lord of the Rings, and you can’t help but unearth an interesting, unique life story. Sometimes those stories actually played out in the books themselves. Sometimes they were only hinted at, but you could glimpse them and couldn’t help but be
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I’ve finished building the broad outlines of the magic system for the series. It is a magic system built upon the Druidic elements; Fire, Water, Earth and Air…and I am leaning toward the Tarot as a guiding structure, as it dovetails neatly into Druid lore. Especially the DruidCraft Tarot, which is the deck I tend