Time Catches All
It has been a long while. So long, in fact, I kept trying to delete the date of this post believing it to have been the date of my last post. Which, it was. They are the same, I think, or so close I didn’t notice. A year.
What have I done in a year? Quite a lot actually! Went on vacation to DisneyWorld (2x) with the family. Opened a new lodge in Perryville, MD. Went on a billion journeys with Buja and Rio to soccer tourneys/matches, etc.
My grandmother passed away earlier this year. Her home was the setting for Me But Moreso and most if not all of the various adornments of the home are taken directly from memory.
As it pertains to writing, the first six months were poor. Not much being written. I managed a few chapters for a Shepherd title before deciding to move away from the material a bit. Shepherd is so dark, it takes a toll on me. So I turned my attention to Jaxon Spriggs.
Jaxon was slow out of the gates but ramped quickly. The first three chapters were a six month process. The next three took two months. Four chapters in a month soon after. Then an absolute blitz. I averaged 2 chapters a week from the beginning of August, writing the 4 chapters in a 2 day span less than a week ago.
It is still very fresh in my mind.
Stories almost never turn out how you assume they will. They live and breathe despite our best efforts to confine them. Much of the ideology in the Shepherd, Shadow books made its way over to Jaxon, rightfully so. They’re parallel in many ways, with a ton of similarities but different players, different lore.
Also got to dive head first into Norse mythology and Viking age history. Fascinating stuff with an immense amount of potential, as so much is unwritten. I began filling in some of the blanks of Viking myth, which is an entire peoples unrestricted to Norway, or even Scandinavia. The island folk of Ireland and England are mentioned often and play major roles as well, integrated into the mythology much the same ways the people were.
This started as a fairy tale retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, and held true to the story and many of its themes. But it became much, much larger. Incorporating the gods of Valhalla, and the tree of Yggdrasil.
It’s fitting it has been near exactly a year. Is symbolic of the fates of time. To myself a year ago, I say, “Time catches all, young sir, eventually.” Best to be prepared.
