How the Eternal Night Saga began (Part 2)

Man, I really need to get used to writing The Eternal Night Saga. It’s hard to break 10 years of calling it “Strin and Fred.”

(By the way, I dusted off my negligible Photoshop skills. See?)

Anyway….

I wanted to give a bit of background on the creation of the story I’ll begin posting here soon.

One day, long ago (say 1999), I was writing an email to a friend during the summer before my freshman year of college. At the end of the email, for no reason I can remember, I added a few paragraphs about these two guys named Strin and Fred, ending it with the always delightful “To Be Continued….”

And I did continue it, weekly, for the next year, sending it to about a half dozen of my friends via email. (You know, before Facebook and blogs and all that. Old school.)

What I ended up with before I quit was a novel, plus some. For my senior project, I dusted off the novel, gave it a substantial editing, and presented Trouble on the Horizon to the world. I published it with PublishAmerica in 2004.

The “plus some” eventually became the second book, The Remnant of Dreams, though it took me a good deal longer to hammer it out. Having thrown everything and the kitchen sink into the first book, I now had the responsibility to deepen the characters, shake up the plot, and move toward a coherent ending. I learned a lot while writing the second book, and though it’s more pensive than the first, I like it better.

And then there’s book 3. Not finished. Easily 50% longer than the earlier books when finished. Lots of crazy stuff happening. Etc.

Meanwhile, when I should have been writing book 3, other novel ideas kept presenting themselves. The Story Project. Squire. A Girl Called Snort. I got sidetracked.

Well, as I mentioned in the last post, I’m ready to return to my long abandoned project. I want to reintroduce audiences to Strin and Fred and the rest of the gang to the world.

It’s coming soon.

(One last post of rambling, next. Then the good stuff.)

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