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A Bonus Post and a New Story
Posted by on June 2, 2016
With the completion of Hammer of the Pygmies, a new Wednesday story will be starting, this one being Nights of Fire, the sixth in the Chronicles of the White Bull collection, continuing on with the journey of Nhaqosa.
Given the brevity of the last entry for Hammer of the Pygmies, I have decided that later on today I will post the first entry for Nights of Fire to make up for it.
About Echo of the Ages
Posted by on May 22, 2016
As I have just started the Echo of the Ages of the serial, I felt I should discuss it a little, of how it is structured and what it is all about.
Echo the Ages is a sprawling epic fantasy, with all that that entails. Added to this is a lot of delving into ruins and tombs for lost relics and treasures, as that is what the starting POV character, Kathri, does for a living.
As for the structure of the story, it is in the form of a serial. For comparison, consider a TV series that has lasted several seasons, one with an overarching plot that encompasses the length of the series.. Each book in the series is the equivalent of a single season, with an ongoing arc. Each part is like a single episode. It ties in with the arc mostly, but the events within it are mostly solved by the end of the part. The chapters are like scenes in the episode. Hopefully that makes sense.
Coming Soon
Posted by on August 3, 2015
Both of the current stories, Wisdom From The Ashes and Daughter of the Windswept Hills, are drawing close to their ends.
Replacing Wisdom From The Ashes is the next in The Chronicles of the White Bull series, Legion of the Sands, an 8200 word novelette.
Following on from Daughter of the Windswept Hills is the next Deeds of Peregrine and Blade sword and sorcery story, an almost 18000 word novella which introduces the other member of the due, Blade, entitled The Red Blade.
Notes on the The Cahuac Cycle
Posted by on July 19, 2015
The Cahuac Cycle has its origins many years ago, back in the late 90s. I was taking part in an online shared world building game. Each of us took control of a stone age tribe in various parts of the world and told the story of what happened to them, as they slowly went from palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, settling down and discovering advances such as farming, weaving, domestication of animals and more. We got into the early bronze age from memory. As part of the game, I told a story about Cahuac and his battle with the sun. It was written in such a manner as if it had been told by an oral storyteller from the days before a written language.
Quite a few years later, when working on one of the worlds I’ve written in, I took that old story and worked it into it, as part of the history. I then added three more short stories to flesh it out further, adding other myths and legends of the deeds of Cahuac.
I have recently started to add some more to them again. One, Cahuac and the Fisherman, has been finished, another, The Seven Sons of Cahuac, has almost been finished and two more, yet to be named, have been planned. After they have all been written and tidied up, they will join the first four on the site.
And Now For Something Different
Posted by on June 25, 2015
For the next four Wednesdays, I will be posting up something a little different than the current selection of stories. Each post will be a short story of between one to two thousand words that form the The Cahuac Cycle. In time there will be more stories in the collection, though they are as of yet not written.
These are fantasy, but not your typical fantasy – they are mythic fantasy from the dawn of time, tales from a people called the Aracan about their greatest ancestor-hero, Cahuac, his adventures and how the world came to be as it is.
The first four stories are Cahuac and the Sun, The Bowl of Storms, Cahuac and the Bees and Wolf and the Stars
Coming Up Next
Posted by on June 4, 2015
With Echoes of Dark Reflections now having finished, it is time to start the next stories. In this case I will be running two different stories at the same time. One is the next in The Chronicles of the White Bull, called Wisdom from the Ashes.
The second will be the first story from The Deeds of Peregrine and Blade, a sword and sorcery series very much in the manner of the pulps of old. The first story in this rather large collection is a novelette entitled Daughter of the Windswept Hills, which will be followed by the novella length The Red Blade.
The schedule for the moment is to have The Chronicles of the White Bull run on Monday and Wednesday, while The Deeds of Peregrine and Blade will be on Saturdays.
The Origins of The Pit
Posted by on May 5, 2015
The Chronicles of the White Bull collection was actually born out of another project, one that hasn’t been completed yet. That story featured Elad, the knight who appears in The Pit, as one of the main characters.
At the time I was just starting to get interested in writing short fiction and decided to do a piece featuring him, to get a idea of who he was and the setting. It was while writing that story that Nhaqosa emerged. Initially he was there to provide an outsiders view of Elad, but right from the start he began to take over the story as a major character in his own right. And then he demanded further stories to be written about him.
In the end eight stories were written of his journeys and the story that spawned it still hasn’t been written yet. While his journey is complete it may be that he will make an appearance again in the future.
Coming Up Next
Posted by on May 5, 2015
With The Pit having concluded, the next story in The Chronicles of the White Bull will be starting up. The Merchant’s Legacy continues the story of Nhaqosa, his companions and their travels. At around 12,300 words, it is about twice as long as The Pit, in the range category of a novelette.
A stranger to the dying world he finds himself in, the white minotaur Nhaqosa is met with suspicion and distrust on all sides, even when he is seeking to aid the sore oppressed in lands beset by troubles. An encounter with bandits, and their captive, a merchant named Kythias, may change all that.
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