If you strip away the Myth from the Man...

Two-hundred eighty-eight pages in two days. For me, I devoured that book. I haven't read a book the way I did that one in a while, and it wasn't even a very good book -- not bad, but only two of the eight stories really caught me, maybe three -- but I guess it's just what I wanted to read. Truth Until Paradox, an anthology of eight stories based on Mage:The Ascension, my favored of the World of Darkness games. Alas, there were very few books written for the game (fiction books, I'm discounting the several dozen source books for the game), and the other one I have, Judgment Day, is based in the End of their world. Apocalyptic is nice, but... We'll see.

I did get some inspiration, though. And I think I might get started writing my own version of Gallin the Troll's story -- I have a few ideas I want to play around with, and a couple of them would behave considerably better on the Author's Desk than around the Gaming Table. So I may start writing that one.

I also have ambitions to re-write the events leading up to Dominiaria's Apocalypse -- Wizards of the Coast had some nice ideas in their game and even in the plot outline they had, but their novels were the young adult sort (I'm coming to greatly dislike that range of books), and I think I could do a better job of it.

And because I'm feeling really ambitious and creative-like, I think I may try to dig up my old project of writing a fiction based around Llyod-Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar." I'd started with taking notes and jotting down ideas for that one, getting the song lyrics (since the thing is very much like an opera -- almost nothing is said that isn't a lyric), and stuff and such.

So, yeah, four pretty disparate ideas for writing and such. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up my motivation enough to get anything rolling on these. After Judgment Day, I'm going to start that Lovecraft book, too, in the hopes that he really does have something of the genre I'm looking for. Or something.

Inspired Notes

This is the result of a bit of inspiration I got for my novella... a few things there are starting to piece together, and I may be able to get back into it and see how the rest pans out. I don't want to have to wait too long before introducing The Others, but I need to introduce the Protagonist to the Real World first... Anyways, here's the little bit, though this likely won't appear in the story itself, just prop it up from behind the scenes. Or something. It's rather rough, but it's really little more than inspired notes.

My name is Laurence Hartdale. ( I am 63 years old... )

Amanda Myrlene Fleetwood

A girl who I have never met died in the time between late last night and early this morning, the victim of violence. This makes me ache, partly that she left so suddenly, but much more so for those who much continue on.

The news story on the incident is found Here.