Busy... and also Warmahordes.

Been a very busy week.  First week back to work with the kids... I haven't had much time to do any writing really.  Been busy with school and then tired, which sucks.

However, my wife is starting her grad school this week, so the plan is for me to write while she does homework and such.  That way we are both doing something productive.  Hopefully next post will be about how well that arrangement is going!

In other news, I played in a Warmachine tournament last saturday.  I ended up winning 2 of the 5 games I played.  It was fun though and it was pretty much a beginner tourney so I played against other newbies (for the most part) which worked out well.  I've got like half of my Cygnar painted (enough for two 35 point armies with my two favorite casters Kraye and eCaine), so I think I'm going to shift my focus to painting my Circle army.  There are too many Cygnar players at the place I play anyways.

I'll probably use my Cygnar tomorrow night, (Thursdays is Warmachine night at Fat Ogres), but hopefully in the next week or so I can transition to Circle... or maybe ill start bringing an army of each to play on thursdays.  I really don't like playing with unpainted models though, so we'll see.

I painted the Warlock Kaya the Wildborne a while back, but I decided I wanted to do something other than the original Circle color scheme of the Green and Bronze Armor Plates.

 So, I repainted her armor to be a purple/blue and silver instead.

I think I like it.  I don't like the picture, however because I had to use the flash.  Oh well.  That's all for now.

Zug Zug

Well, I haven't posted in a while because I've been gearing up to start back teaching.  I have had to spend this last week at boring Staff Development and "team building" exercises.  As far as writing is going I've shifted my focus back towards the Collectors. I will continue to do stuff for Antheros, but it will definitely be more of a side project thing for now.  I think what I am going to end up doing is creating a few pages within this blog, one will be dedicated to Collectors stuff and the other Antheros stuff and possibly a random section so I can post stuff about other things that interest me (such as WarMachine, games, and movies and books and such.)    Anyways the one advantage to all these pointless meetings is that it gives a chance to draw, so I did a quick rough sketch of the main character in Collectors.  So here he is:

Roswell Scraphunter

Speaking of meetings I have another now.... Zug Zug!

Torn between two stories.

Well I've found myself torn between wanting to write more of The Last collector, and working on another story I've had in mind for a long time as well.  The other story is a bit more of a traditional fantasy story with dragons and magic and such, but a few twist to the world, which I call Antheros.

I've finished a few chapters of Collector and I think I may take a break from it and flesh out a few of the ideas for Antheros before I continue with Collector.  I like the Collector story I have planned, but I'm not certain about the main character yet.  I feel like I need to inject more of his personality into the writing.

I have kinda the opposite problem with my Antheros world.  I like the character I have in mind, but I haven't really fleshed out the story yet.  I plan to write some more stuff down about the world over the next few days and see if anything comes to mind.  If it does and I tend to prefer it I may put Collector on the back burner for now and work on that instead.

I think part of it is I've never written a book before and the world I've made for Collector is very complex.  The Antheros world is a bit more straight forward (although some aspects of it are more complicated).  I think for a first novel it might be easier for me to write something in Antheros (as i'm more comfortable in the realm of fantasy than dystopian future).  We'll see...

So, I'm writing a book.

So, After writing several short stories I've decided to try my hand at writing a full fledged book. I have started this blog so that I could keep track of stuff dealing with it. The blog will very much be a work in progress till I get it looking the way I want it. For now I'm using a template I found online. I'd like to add images and such, make it look more fun, but that will come later. I guess I'll start by posting a summary of the book I am writing.

 The Last Collector:
 In the year 2192, The Collectors saved humanity from destruction by defeating the insane cultists known as the Proteans, which ended the Shadow War. Since then The Collectors have had one goal: to collect and contain Shadow, an indestructible black liquid of alien origin that bestows its users with super-natural abilities. The abilities come at a cost, however, as the users of shadow are slowly driven mad. Over the years the enigmatic order has faded into little more than legend.
 It is a legend that 17-year-old Roswell Scraphunter now finds himself a part of. After Roswell’s family is butchered during the destruction of the town Wichit, Cain, the last known Collector, decides to take the boy on as his apprentice. Together they must find those responsible for Wichit’s destruction: A group of men and beast that carry a black banner adorned with a red trident, the mark of the Proteans. It is a banner that has not been seen since the cult of shadow users were defeated 200 years earlier. Cain and Roswell must find a way to stop the Proteans before they begin a second Shadow War. For if that happens, there is little chance that the broken remnants of humanity will survive.