Category: Journal Entries

This would have been my sophomore year in high school, and yes, most of the time it was a blow-off class with plenty of time to write, read, or work on homework. I remember that we watched a lot of movies in that class, so […]

I really don’t remember a lot of the writing that I was coming up with years ago. You will see “Lay of Toranon.” That was inspired by Tolkien’s lays. And I really thought I could write a song. Before you ask, I no longer have […]

This entry was basically just providing little updates and containing more stepping on toes of copyrighted works. I had been able to get a lot of work done because it was Christmas break. During the school year, work on my personal writing was spotty at […]

You can see more where I was getting ideas (or just stealing) names for the old stories. Orlando came from Orlando Bloom from Pirates of the Caribbean. Vigo was from Viggo Mortenson from Lord of the Rings. Luah is a dog character from The Incredible […]

The Stone of Light was an old trilogy that I got pretty far on. It was the last one that I wrote before Sparks Shall Rise because I remember working on it in my junior year of high school. In my Spanish class, we wrote […]

All those years ago, I kept notebooks and printed out papers for the stories. Sometimes I was working on them at school and had to write the story by hand and then type it into the computer later. When I worked on Sparks Shall Rise, […]

I know that some authors like printing out early drafts of their stories to do an edit on paper rather than on the computer. For me, I am always too worried that I will waste a lot of paper, so I tend to do everything […]

Here you can see where Torrannon came from. I’m pretty sure the god’s names were taken from other things, particularly The Silmarillion. That’s one of the many reasons I never went too far into creating the two older series. May 30, 2008 I’ve been working […]

When I was writing this fantasy story, I didn’t give much thought to copyright, so I used names and variations of names from other books and movies, especially The Lord of the Rings. Yes, these stories were ultimately abandoned, and no, I will not be […]

Quite a few years ago, I received the first few books of the Leven Thumps series as a Christmas present. Along with the books was a journal. I used and continue to use that journal to write about how book projects are doing. I thought […]