SacredOrderOfTheMagi

Yo dawgs, word up in da hood! Representin' mah Dags fo shizzle!

That made me hate myself a little bit... I'm sorry.

lol

Anyways!

I mentioned that I as going to create my world bottom up, didn't I?

Well I'm here to tell you about a wonderful group known as ProFantasy. They're the creators of the wonderful program "Campaign Creator" which, I'm currently using. You can check them out at www.profantasy.com.

But in regards to the program itself, it's powerful, no doubt about that, the only issue is that it's not exactly user friendly... In fact, not in the least.

And seeing as this is a post about recommendations, I suppose I have to make more recommendations...

On to music, a band deserving of more credit then they're getting is Default! Songs like It only hurts, or, Count on Me. There are also plenty of other amazing songs out there, like Savior by Rise Against, or Hero of War by them as well. Never too late - Three days grace, It's not my time - Three doors down, et cetera - anyone.

Writing a blog, writing a blog, look at me I'm writing a blog!

Tadaa!

Hello everybody, this'll be the first time I'll post without saying that it's been awhile! Only like a week :p

Well yesterday I went to the St.John's northwest rotary music festival. It was fun times, they did some really amazing songs and I had some great discoveries there. I saw the true greatness of music, decided I loved a certain song, and came up with some great noveling ideas.

Firstly, the song.

I decided that if Bane of Thunder ever became a movie, which I doubt it ever will, this song has to be in it somewhere! The song is called Butterfly and it's a wonderful acapella song that I've completely fell in love with!

But throughout other songs as well a notion was growing that night. I was watching two people the most, one during only their performances, but the other the entire night (though the person changed, the position was usually always there).

The first of the two was my new Girlfriend. She was part of it, that was why I was there, and she did a wonderful job!

The second was the conductor, and something in that position resonated with something deep in me.

See I've always had this notion that the world had a misconception of leaders; that leaders are viewed as the controller or ruler when they are more accurately the representative of the group. A good leader of a nation should be a representative of the nation before a ruler of the nation.

But I found an exception; the conductor is a lot like a leader of the band, without the conductor the band will usually fail. But the conductor is not a representative, they are a true leader, but at the same time, a member of who they're leader, a brother.

But, that's off track.

What I'm getting at, is the conductor, is almost the mastermind behind everything, pulling everything together, all the pieces and plots into one. I liked that and it sparked the idea to have a character like that in my novel.

And then, the idea of having a character who I can only call "The Conductor" at the moment, sparked more ideas of generalizing all kinds of characters into one word titles. Like "Conductor" there'd be others like "Guardian" and such.

The day before that actually, I'd been reading about characters, specifically the character of Durzo Blint from "The Way of Shadows" by Brent Weeks (amazing book) and realized that my characters weren't anywhere near as solid as they need to be.

Majoron, now he's good enough, Elscythe is okay, not perfect but that's him too; imperfect. But other characters like Taeron for instance have no character. I need to build them, their lives, their history, and how they think, why they think, et cetera. But from there, I'd reconnected with a previous dream.

When I first jumped into this specific world of Fantasy in Bane of Thunder, I'd wanted to throw as much info as I could about the world onto paper but that soon faded away.

Now, I'm realizing that in order to completely create the solid characters I want, I'll have to SERIOUSLY do that. That means starting fr the beginning, and working to the "present day". I'll make the geography, the earliest tribes, and work and work until my brain falls off.

Yes I know that made no sense, but it's a challenge and the only thing I have to do right now is study for my Psychology final so I'll be working on my world instead.

Wish me luck everyone(And no one as no one really reads this)!

S. R. Wilkes

The procrastinator

So, hey everyone, been awhile, yeah I know. As to that NaNoWriMo in February, I got it pretty easily and now Bane of Thunder is sitting perfect and completed!

Besides that in April I tried Script Frenzy which is another NaNoWriMo butbased on getting a 100 page screen play done in April, I just finished it a few minutes ago!

It focused on Vikings and Gaels, which throughout this I discovered I'm descendant of both! Crazy coincidences!

Besides those things, Ive been forced into a Poetry Slam for a class I'm in, and so I recorded it. It's on Youtube. You can find it if you search for me "Majoronalosyn" or for Life narrated by S. R. Wilkes.

See you all!

Have fun

Cheers

Rock on Rock Stars

*insert more farewells here*

Yep! Just as the title suggests, I'm at the 10,000 word mark!

I started the unofficial NaNo on the first of February, but I actually forgot about it until the end of the day and only clocked in 317 words when I need abotu 1,667 a day to complete the challenge in a 30 day cycle.

Well, that word count stayed with me, I didn't write a single word until yesterday when my word count popped up to a whopping 10,117 words in just an hour or so.

So, same story as last time, it won't be visible to the general public, but if you want to read it, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do discreetly. As for visible works, the Hero | Truth | Destiny novel will be fixed and readable soon, then you'll be able to read about the general mishaps of Halsyo, Hycindathaul, and Lyne.

Anyways, I'm off for now - see you all later!

S. R. Wilkes

The man regaining himself.

So, what's up, eh?

By the way, you can't say I'm descriminating against Canadians, because I am Canadian... We don't say "eh" much, well, not as much as media portrays Japanese people.

So anyways, I'm still in the process of rewriting, but I've yet to write a single word. I'm waiting 'til midnight this saturday, the instant February starts. At which point I'll begin an unofficial NaNoWriMo contest just for motivation...

But there's just one problem... I've lost my inspiration...

My novel is my life, Bane of Thunder is an autobiography, merely on a fictional level. The odd thing is, I discovered that after I'd wrote it...

My life has been chaotic since my Fiance died 39 days ago. Despite everything moving so slow it all seems to be chaotic.

Besides all of that, writing is my escape, my passion, my equilibrium and most of all - it's my soul. It defines who I am but the problem is... I don't know who I am...

Sammy's disappeared. He's gone and I can't find him. I've looked and looked but right now, Sammy's missing. My mom says that he's just hurt, hiding down while he heals and that in time he'll be back to his normal self but I don't know...

I want to be me again, I don't like who I am these days - this mopey ape of a man... I want to be me.

But I don't want to be me. It's the same feeling you get when you're debating jumping into the water when you've gone swimming on a real hot summer day. It's boiling hot so you want to jump in - but you know the water is freezing and that it'll be almost shocking when you first jump in so all you do is just stand there for a bit as the heat bears down on you.

I need to go swimming.

I've had major self confidence issues in the past and as a result I haven't been swimming in years - which sucks because I love it!

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In these recent days, I've found quite a few new faces. They've just been popping up, all of these new friends and it's really great, knowing that they're all there around me, supporting me but at the same time it's kinda depressing - knowing that I need support...

But don't get me wrong :P I love it!

Anyways, I have to keep cleaning my "apartment" for a possible "Party" tomorrow

S.R. Wilkes

The absent guy.

Well I haven't been on this in ages and for a good reason too.

But now that I'm back, I've got something to tell you all about.

My life has been chaos but I'm not going to dote on the passing of my fiance or my parents moving to the other side of the country. Instead I'm going to tell you that I'm starting the third writing of my Bane of Thunder novel - that's right! This will be the second rewriting and it may not be the last.

Besides that, I've finished two novels in november for the NaNoWriMo challenge and they are already posted on their own pages for the site.

And lastly, I'll be trying to lead another NaNoWriMo challenge at my school for February, so there's a good chance that another novel will sudden appear on this website.

Anyways, take care; winter times are dangerous but wonderful none the less.