Hello, folks. I hope you’re doing well this fine December day. I know I am, but that’s because I’m an evil, messed up frost demon. I love the cold and the winter. I enjoy freezing temperatures and laugh at all the silly people who huddle in houses next to heaters. Hahaha! See? I laugh.
Ahem. Back on track. As you can see, today’s another article trying to get your opinions on my writing. I don’t know how many of you here read the one I did last time, but it was a colossal, colossal, really really big failure. So I’m doing something different this time.
First, you have to vote for a story. There are no other options. Second, I’m not going to sacrifice my regular articles for them. I’ll try to get the story chapters up on a consistent basis, but this column will stay intact. Third, I’m not giving story excerpts. The last time I did it, I slacked off on the last two excerpts so everyone thought the actual stories were horrible. So instead I’ll just do summaries.
Ready? No? Too bad. I’m starting.
Fire and Ice is the about the Russian Revolution of 1917. Oh no, you say, yawning. Not another stupid boring piece of historical fiction. Well, you’re absolutely right. It’s
not another stupid boring piece of historical fiction. The catch phrase for
Fire and Ice is “The Russian Revolution, except interesting”. How so? Everyone uses magic and I’ve basically ignored all of the miniscule irrelevant details you’ll find in history books. This is one of the original ones, and you can read the sample by going to my old article
here.
In fact, I’m going to be lazy and send you back to that article for all of my originals. If you want to read the summary for
The Broken,
Curtains Down, or
A Cruel Angel’s Thesis, go
here and read about it. However, you might want to skip the excerpts for
The Broken and
Curtains Down. Both received about ten minutes of effort each, and they’re really pathetic.
Now, on with the column.
Calamity Bringer is next. I don’t know how many of you read
What Comes from Darkness, but it was one of my first pieces ever. It was about Nergal and how he became the demented screwball we all know, hate, and smack around with Armads.
Calamity Bringer is the revamped version of
What Comes from Darkness. How is it different, you ask? Well, the writing’s much better. That’s all, but it’s actually a lot. I wrote it like a year or more ago, and my skills have gotten much better since then.
The story focuses on Nergal and Athos, their stay in Arcadia, and the eventual rift between them. It doesn’t sound too awesome, I know, but there’s lots of drama and battles and... yeah... I’ll go drink some coffee before I finish this article.
Ahem. Better. Now
Primed and Ready.
Primed and Ready is more of a Fire Emblem Wars fic than a Fire Emblem fic. This is basically the story of Primus’s rise to the position of General of Ostia. So far I have plans for at least the inclusion of one other FEW member in it, and I’d be glad to put in more if asked. Expect a story full of plotting and intrigue and people getting killed. Yay.
The Cromwell Initiative is a Hellsing fanfic. The title is still a work in progress, since right now I think it’s pretty crappy and horrible. Oh, by the way, a lot of these titles aren’t final titles. Just so you know. It’s very likely they’ll change between now and when it’s published.
The Cromwell Initiative is about Alucard’s first time using all of his full power. It features Hellsings with guns, van Helsings with obsessive personalities and knives, evil super-vampires with rat familiars, and lots of other fun stuff, especially for Hellsing fans.
King of Ancient Evil is a Fire Emblem fic, but it’s so completely unrelated to Fire Emblem I could make it a standalone. Basically, it’s the backstory for the villain I’m creating for the Trouble in Etruria topic. I’m not saying much about it because I still want to keep as much info about the villain quiet as I can, but it’s a lot like the story of Arthas from Warcraft. That’s all I can tell you for now, unfortunately.
Divinity is one of those stories with a title I really despise. It’s a history of the Scouring and chronicles the quest of the Divine Generals, from the creation of the Divine General weapons to the final binding of the Demon Dragon. That’s all I need to say for now, I’d say. The Scouring isn’t exactly an obscure subject.
Fountain of Life is yet another crappy title piece. It’s original, though, but it’s so incredibly clichéd it doesn’t seem that way.
Fountain is a little experiment I’m conducting. I’m taking a basic fantasy story archetype, using all the clichés in the book, and seeing how many tricks I can pull to make it actually interesting. So the story is a typical evil vs. good type thing, but like I said, if I have anything to say about it, it’ll still be good, damn good.
Venoms of the Earth is a “meh” title. I don’t love it exactly, but I don’t think it’s too crappy either. It’s all right. I’ll probably keep it if I can’t think of something better, and knowing how lazy I am and how afflicted with writer’s block I often am, there’s a pretty good chance the title will stay the same.
Venoms is like
Fire and Ice. What I do for these sorts of stories is take a bit of history, strip it down to the very basic facts, and then build it up again so that it’s interesting.
Venoms of the Earth is the story of Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, and his war against Rome. I don’t know how many of you know the story of Mithridates, but if you do, you’ll know why it’s called what it’s called. It’s relatively realistic, if not accurate, so don’t expect the spells and such of
Fire and Ice. You can, expect, lots of swords and armies and massive wars. Yay. Again.
That’s it, folks. I apologize for the lack of a coherent or especially long article today, but I’ve had a lot of work this week, and, well, yeah. Sorry. If all goes well the first chapter of the story that wins today will go up along with my column next week.
VOTE!
Grondring needs a nap. Leave him alone.Mad Mod is irritated because Grondy remembered to send the article to him for editing again.