The World of Naswor

While going over files and stuff saved over the nearly 20 years of Naswor’s fitful evolution, I discovered some very disturbing truths about what I did way back when. Basically, I appear to have been trying to rip off David Eddings — not directly, of course, and definitely not intentionally — but you know how appearances are and how important it is to avoid the wrong one. Read the rest of this entry »

David is off doing his own thing, for one… and, two, he’s having a hell of a scare over his wife’s recent diagnosis of heart problems. He’s got enough to worry about just with Wendy’s possible pacemaker operation, or heart transplant depending on what the doctors at Emery decide upon.

I’m doing nothing. Not a thing on anything, much less progress on Naswor. I don’t really foresee getting back to it with much hope of doing anything productive for quite some time. Read the rest of this entry »

I kind of crashed and burned badly for NaNo ‘07. I’m starting to think I have an odd-year curse, since I got hung up and failed to finish in both ‘05 and ‘07, but that could just be my excuse for not getting done. Since NaNo, I’ve sat down and read a lot of new stuff and enjoyed almost all of it very much. And I’ve been scribbling copious notes about things I’d like to write and I’ve even gone back to some older stuff to take a good, hard look at whether or not it’s worth pursuing further. Read the rest of this entry »

This time around, it looks like neither David nor I will run back to safe ol’ Naswor for fodder for writing in NaNoWriMo 2007. He’s gone all contemporary and dark on us with his idea for this year — all vampires and demons and end of days kind of stuff. And why not? Something different to stretch the imagination in new and creative ways, right? Well, I’m not doing a story set in Naswor, either. But then again, I sort of am, too. Read the rest of this entry »

I was writing down more about my characters last night and I suddenly had to sit back and chuckle. I had come full circle with one of them, and I mean full circle. Let me explain: Read the rest of this entry »

Funny enough, my daughter came up to me about mid-September and asked if I would ever do a story that featured a young female vampire. Well, I thought about it and before I knew it I had melded it to another story and came up with a really awesome tale. It has really fueled my imagination and got me fired up for NaNoWriMo. So it looks like Naswor will be taking a little break. This is probably for the best considering that we are at the point that we really need to redefine what we are doing and just who our characters are any more. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a long time since I posted here. Not because I forgot that we had this blog, but because I’ve been focused almost entirely on the Naswor world at large.  That left Ric to do most of the writing here. For that I apologize. I realize that we don’t have many people that actually come here, but that does not excuse me from doing anything. Sorry. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been mostly thinking about this year’s NaNoWriMo project — okay, when I haven’t been instead thinking about leveling and gearing a Paladin to tank for our little circle of friends to run 5-mans in Outlands — and there’s just so much potential, but there are so many different directions in which to take the idea. Some of them are cool and could add some depth and breadth; some of them could kill it if I’m not careful. Read the rest of this entry »

Yeah, it’ll soon be that time of year again — when NaNoWriMo comes around for yet another sleep-deprived, caffeine-overdosed month filled with frantic word-slinging and deadline-dreading. Where did the year go? Read the rest of this entry »

Today is the first anniversary of both my dad’s death and the death of author David Gemmell, and it’s still as hard trying to write about this day now as it would’ve been a year ago. I never did write anything when Dad died because I couldn’t handle the idea that he was gone. To have also lost a writer whose work I most enjoyed reading in the same day was so overwhelmingly crushing that I simply chose not to address the losses for a very long time. Read the rest of this entry »

I read a lot of history, historical fiction, and fantasy. I’ve also read a ton of old science fiction, too, because my dad got the Science Fiction Book Club selections when I was in high school. But Fantasy still stood out as the most enjoyable. I used to read a lot of just about everything I could get my hands on but time to read got squeezed somewhat for years somewhere in there and I had to be more selective, so I stayed more or less with what I like most and that’s what I read most often now. As a result, fantasy has come out on top and I’ve read and still do read a lot of different authors’ works even though I’ve stuck with one or two that I’ve enjoyed most at different points in my life. Read the rest of this entry »

Tomorrow, I swear, I will quit my current job and take up employment doing something that I neither like nor appreciate so that I may be forever remembered as one among those for whom I have no real love or appreciation. Yeah, I’m going to start doing something that maybe I hate so that everybody’s memories of me will be lumped in with people I wouldn’t really want to hang around with. Never mind who or what that would be — because I’m obviously not really going to do it… Oh, wait! I think I’ve already been doing exactly that with my writing now, haven’t I? Read the rest of this entry »

I’m kind of distracted from the work I should be doing right now by all the sorting, refiling, and pitching out of all the accumulated mess that I never got around to clearing up the last time I moved my computer room/”office.” It’s a mixed blessing, this pack rat tendency that afflicts me. Along with all the now pretty much useless article clippings, torn out pages and complete magazine issues that I was so sure I’d eventually have need of I’ve just uncovered materials I assumed I’d long since lost in Army permanent change of station (PCS) moves in the distant past — Georgia to Maryland, back to Georgia, and then to Massachusetts, to Arizona, before finally back to another part of Georgia. Read the rest of this entry »

A decade or so ago, moving from one room of my house into another was far simpler than it is now. Back then, all I had to do was unload a small bookcase or two and a desk, carry the contents of said pieces of furniture into another room to get them out of the way, drag the furniture from one room to the other, and then reload the furniture with the former contents, possibly weeding out unused or unwanted things along the process. No longer. Read the rest of this entry »

I tweaked the map above slightly again, mostly to balance out the landmass so the continents aren’t quite as symmetrical at they were previously. I still need to do a little more adjusting so that we can work in the terrain and climates in a way that makes good sense. We’re not going for strict adherence to hard science here, but things still need to not be silly (like a desert situated where there is no good reason for one to exist). Read the rest of this entry »