Weekly Progress Update

Weekly Progress Update

Good morning! Sorry I’m a bit late on this, I got carried away yesterday.

We’re in the Final Act of Book Two and all of the intensity and high stakes are starting! I’m excited for next week’s writing sessions to see what happens.

Also, I made a post on Imgur that made Most Viral regarding my favorite author, R. A. Salvatore. He’s the writer for the Drizzt Do’Urden series, which is the largest inspiration for Orcblood Legacy. When I read his books in my teens, it was really the start to my love of Fantasy that sparked the interest in writing. To be honest, I can’t (or rather don’t want to) go back and re-read them, despite them being stories I love. Now that I write my own books, I see a lot of things that I don’t like in his writing – or that just differs from my preferences.

I still loved those books and fondly claim them to be my favorite series (next to Orcblood Legacy, of course!). But I don’t want to ruin the magic when I start picking them apart from a written perspective. My teenage mind didn’t care about plot repetition, immortal characters, or the lack of a structured magic system. At the time, I only cared about the story and its players. Writing is a completely different beast than reading and it changes your perspective a lot on the things you normally would just look past. Even now, I can’t watch movies without automatically pointing out the plot holes. It is frustrating, to say the least.

In any case, all writers get inspiration from somewhere. It’s important to remember the things or people that brought you where you are. While I may disagree with the way some of Salvatore’s books are written, I will never deny that they serve as the primary influence behind my own.

That’s all for this week, folks!