(March 19, 2024)
The Hot List:
- The conversion to MS Word from Word Perfect has begun!
- Up to page 105 of rewriting edit of Book 4 (old from last year sometime...)
Goals:
- Publish all 5 books.
- Write a three script, script adaptation to compliment the series.
- Get drawings in to highlight each chapter.
- Get a professional artist to make drawings up for me.
Recent Achievements:
- Working on shoring up/making consistent the chapter header and footers in novel 4.
Quick chapter by chapter rundown: (purposely vague for the sake of showmanship)
(Start of the 1st book: The Chosen Redeemer of Thars)
Part I: Sets the master framing story. Starts with a bang, an epic dragon fight.
Part II: This is primarily a main protagonist back-story chapter.
Part III: The heart of the 1st book is in this chapter, and it sets the tone for the rest of the series.
Part IV: This is a fun chapter involving the main protagonist. Very creative and high concept.
(End of the 1st book: The Chosen Redeemer of Thars)
(Start of 2nd book: A Strange Sense of Divine Destiny)
Part V: Short chapter. Mini bonding/straining of tensions between two main characters before their storylines heat up and change radically. Has monsters in it that the two main characters haf-ta battle in order to survive.
Part VI: This starts the main adventure in action for both main characters and sets the trajectory of their new lives in action. Lots of action. Introduce the Bobba Fett like henchman bad guy and his cohorts which add complications to the plot.
Part VII: Further explores the greater outer story and how it figures to into the practical everyday life now being experienced by the main protagonist.
Part VIII: Begins the first of three love stories, this one involving the central character. Have key squareoff of main protagonist vs. main villain in the story.
* Breakpoint of 1st movie *
(End of 2nd book: A Strange Sense of Divine Destiny)
(Beginning of 3rd book: Love at All Costs)
High accent on the friends/budding commraderie element of the story.
Chapter 8: Main character settles in, in Thars. Further the drama of the 1st love story.
Chapter 9: Pick-up the action of the 2nd main character. Begins 2nd love story.
Chapter 10: 1st love story comes to a pivotal climax which threatens to rock the world of many people in the place where it takes place.
Chapter 11: Further develop the 2nd love story.
Chapter 12: 2nd main protagonist faces a life-threatenting situation, which sets the 2nd love story to look like its going to end in trajedy. Has a scene in it that was inspired by the movie, "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985: directed by George Miller, staring Mel Gibson)
(End of 3rd book: Love at Great Cost)
(Beginning of 4th book: The Making of a Legend)
Chapter 13: Former love interest involved the first love story begins to lose it, and makes a major complication in the life of the main protagonist's life.
Chapter 14: Main bad guy goes through a soul-searching desert place that results him making a choice that changes his trajectory and focus.
Chapter 15: A major complication occurs as the main protagonist suffers a key loss and gets confronted and challenged to prove himself in the face of someone that he can't say no to, which leads to the onset of an oddessy quest.
* Breakpoint of 2nd movie *
Chapter 16: Quest style adventure leads to confrontations of main protagonist and his traveling party with several different kinds of interactions and battles with monsters.
(End of 4th book: The Making of a Legend)
(Beginning of 5th book: Return of the Dragon)
Chapter 17: Start of 3rd romance which involves a lot of swashbuckling and fighting off of foes in the vein of the budding romance that occurred between Hans Solo and Princess Leia in "Star Wars".
Chapter 18: Main villain's master plan begins to get carried out, which throws the whole world into turmoil.
Chapter 19: Third romance continues with its whirlwind.
Chapter 20: The main villain's power grows to new heights which threatens the stability of all.
Chapter 21: The villainous henchmen positions himself to achieve his dreams and re-invent himself apart from the subjecation of the main villain.
Chapter 22: The villainous henchmen, who is now on the verge of achieving his dreams comes into contact with the budding 3rd romance which forces the woman in this triangle to make a choice that will affect them all.
Chapter 23: All storylines converge on a key site, at which time the main protagonist is forced to square-off against the main vilain in a winner-takes-all battle for surpremacy.
Epilog: Look ahead many years into the future and see how life played for the surviving characters played out.
* End of Third Movie and This Story *