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OOF, YIKES
Apr. 28th, 2020 05:52 pmApparently I didn't post once last year.
Oof.
Maybe I'll be a bit more active on here this year, considering the quarantine and everything. Hey, who knows, maybe I'll even get around to posting a bit of my novel or something fun like that.
Well, what's new, dreamwidth? Not a lot, huh? Glad to see old faithful's still going, nevertheless.
Not a lot new here on my end. I've started a new D&D campaign where I've smashed the remnants of my two old previous groups together, which has been fun. Due to strict stay-at-home-quarantining laws, we're playing on discord now. It's actually so much better than I ever thought it would be, which is amazing! I'm starting to find my groove as a DM again. I've come to realise I don't enjoy playing so much as I do DMing - mainly because I like knowing all the details of every plot and watching the story come together.
The most fun part of it is the fact that we're playing in my fictional universe, where I've set up the setting for my novel. The big bad of the campaign (so far - we're only level 2 so far!) is the villain of my novel, too, which is amazing. It's fun being able to flesh her out. Eventually the party should meet the main two characters of my novel: Hayden the healer/necromancer, and Kaz Morgans the shadowbroker. Did I lift the shadowbroker concept from Mass Effect? You bet I did. The idea is that they're somewhat of the sun/moon dichotomy, where on the surface it very much looks black and white in terms of Hayden is definitely the sun and Kaz is definitely the moon. As the story goes along, and the two of them start working together and slowly start to trust each other, it's a gradual reveal that it's the other way around.
Oh, what's that? You want the blurb to my book?
Twist my arm.
Hayden is the son of a political family in an oppressive magocratic society, and when he refuses to marry for a political alliance, he flees town on a merchant vessel to start a new life in the south. Only, the merchant vessel is boarded by pirates, and Hayden ends up forced to work as the healer for one of the deadliest pirate crews to ever rule the open seas. Caught up in raids, sea-ward battles and heists, Hayden finds out the hard way that the pirate captain will stop at nothing to enact revenge against her nemesis - including buying secrets from the nation's most deadly and sought after information dealer, the Shadowbroker. As Hayden runs from his past, he may find out that the true cost of freedom is more than he's bargained for.
I really need to change that last line, but, there you go!
It's called By Any Other Name and the title is meant to be a clue about Hayden's last name. He changes it in the beginning of the book, and his family's name is mentioned, like, once, right at the start there. If the reader is clue-ey enough, they'll put together that his family are this wealthy, hoity-toighty family of magisters, and are the ones that are after him in the last act of the book.
Fun stuff!
Oof.
Maybe I'll be a bit more active on here this year, considering the quarantine and everything. Hey, who knows, maybe I'll even get around to posting a bit of my novel or something fun like that.
Well, what's new, dreamwidth? Not a lot, huh? Glad to see old faithful's still going, nevertheless.
Not a lot new here on my end. I've started a new D&D campaign where I've smashed the remnants of my two old previous groups together, which has been fun. Due to strict stay-at-home-quarantining laws, we're playing on discord now. It's actually so much better than I ever thought it would be, which is amazing! I'm starting to find my groove as a DM again. I've come to realise I don't enjoy playing so much as I do DMing - mainly because I like knowing all the details of every plot and watching the story come together.
The most fun part of it is the fact that we're playing in my fictional universe, where I've set up the setting for my novel. The big bad of the campaign (so far - we're only level 2 so far!) is the villain of my novel, too, which is amazing. It's fun being able to flesh her out. Eventually the party should meet the main two characters of my novel: Hayden the healer/necromancer, and Kaz Morgans the shadowbroker. Did I lift the shadowbroker concept from Mass Effect? You bet I did. The idea is that they're somewhat of the sun/moon dichotomy, where on the surface it very much looks black and white in terms of Hayden is definitely the sun and Kaz is definitely the moon. As the story goes along, and the two of them start working together and slowly start to trust each other, it's a gradual reveal that it's the other way around.
Oh, what's that? You want the blurb to my book?
Twist my arm.
Hayden is the son of a political family in an oppressive magocratic society, and when he refuses to marry for a political alliance, he flees town on a merchant vessel to start a new life in the south. Only, the merchant vessel is boarded by pirates, and Hayden ends up forced to work as the healer for one of the deadliest pirate crews to ever rule the open seas. Caught up in raids, sea-ward battles and heists, Hayden finds out the hard way that the pirate captain will stop at nothing to enact revenge against her nemesis - including buying secrets from the nation's most deadly and sought after information dealer, the Shadowbroker. As Hayden runs from his past, he may find out that the true cost of freedom is more than he's bargained for.
I really need to change that last line, but, there you go!
It's called By Any Other Name and the title is meant to be a clue about Hayden's last name. He changes it in the beginning of the book, and his family's name is mentioned, like, once, right at the start there. If the reader is clue-ey enough, they'll put together that his family are this wealthy, hoity-toighty family of magisters, and are the ones that are after him in the last act of the book.
Fun stuff!
