{"id":177,"date":"2013-06-19T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/how-far-weve-come-and-how-far-were-going\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:19:37","slug":"how-far-weve-come-and-how-far-were-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/how-far-weve-come-and-how-far-were-going\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far We’ve Come and How Far We’re Going"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well ladies and gentlemen, the time is quickly approaching.\u00a0 I am actually counting down the days, because we are likely within one month of a publication at this point.\u00a0 It has been a long time, but the trilogy is likely going to be complete by this time next month.<\/p>\n
It’s not set in stone just yet, but my editor was intent on trying to get me his final edits this weekend.\u00a0 If that’s the case, all I’ll have to do is look at his changes and approve or deny them.\u00a0 That might take a week or two if I’m really diligent.\u00a0 After that, I do one final read through the material myself, give it the go ahead, and publish.\u00a0 The artwork is already done – you’ve seen it if you looked at the Kickstarter we ran a couple months back.\u00a0 The only thing I would have to do after that is begin resizing the artwork for a paperback release – maybe around November of this year.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I haven’t just been sitting around, twiddling my thumbs.\u00a0 I’ve been working on my short stories, in an effort to\u00a0tide over anxious fans once The Enemy Within has been released – the fact that nothing has been set to paper (digital or not) since November of 2011 is a sad thing indeed.\u00a0 I want to try and remedy that going forward.<\/p>\n
I’ve been working on two of the stories simultaneously – and I’ve been treating them as gifts for two of the people closest to me.\u00a0 Adelia is a fan favorite of my wonderful artist and girlfriend Rhianna.\u00a0 When you get a chance to read that story, you might notice a more playful, whimsical approach than the Child of the Stars trilogy presents.\u00a0 The other character is Bolt – he’s the one I started with, regarding these shorter tales – and he’s dedicated to my brother.\u00a0 I’m noticing as I spin these yarns, they’re growing bigger than I expected.<\/p>\n
Allow me to drop some history on you.<\/p>\n
When I first started writing the Tellest mythos back in 2001, it was such a miniscule idea.\u00a0 Tellest wasn’t part of the name.\u00a0 Tellest wasn’t even an idea<\/em>.\u00a0 It was just supposed to be a short biography for Kaos Kreegan.\u00a0 <\/p>\n At the time, it was being written in the Forgotten Realms world – essentially just some heavy fan fiction.\u00a0 The profile was for a character I was making in Baldur’s Gate II.\u00a0 Subconsciously, certain facets of that game series\u00a0even made their way into my long term writing – Duke Eltan, as I came to discover long after I had written my original Kaos story, was a character from Baldur’s Gate.\u00a0 I think that even the last name Kreegan was probably subconsciously pulled from the Heroes of Might and Magic series.\u00a0 They were the series’ devils and demons.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Of course, I didn’t even realize that those name choices had been made.\u00a0 In 2001, my imagination was still stretching slowly over time.\u00a0 Kaos’ original name would have been Kaos Brightblade – for the sake of a videogame profile, that would have been fine.\u00a0 I don’t think Wizards of the Coast would have come after me for that.\u00a0 But Kaos, and the world around him continued to evolve.<\/p>\n What was originally just a two page biography that I wrote in math class stretched and pulled until much of what you see in Bindings of Fate today was written (although in much cruder fashion).\u00a0 From there, 140 pages evolved to close to 300 when I added some solid backstory for Kaos.\u00a0 You’ll get to see the natural growth of that original tale when “The Veil of Mists” comes out in 2014\/2015.<\/p>\n What I’m noticing, though, is that Adelia and Bolt are experiencing the same manner of growth.\u00a0 I don’t think I can call their solo tales short stories at this point.\u00a0 They’re more like novelettes.\u00a0 By the time I’m done with Adelia’s tale, I know I’ll be close to 20,000 words.<\/p>\n Of course, with a slightly longer length comes a slightly longer wait.\u00a0 These short stories aren’t going to be coming out until liikely around November of this year (and even then, on a weekly basis for each chapter).\u00a0 But, I figured, I have a good amount of writing done thus far, and much of the content is unlikely to change.\u00a0 So what do you say?\u00a0 Would you like an introduction to the first 1,000 words of the first short story?<\/p>\n Well ladies and gentlemen, the time is quickly approaching.\u00a0 I am actually counting down the days, because we are likely within one month of a publication at this point.\u00a0 It has been a long time, but the trilogy is likely going to be complete by this time next month. It’s not set in stone just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-2R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A weak frown could just barely be seen upon the retired knight\u2019s face.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAlas, my friend, I haven\u2019t come to Forsynthia just for reprieve.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m moving a caravan of weapons up to the Basalt Flats.\u00a0 <\/span>Lydick should be awaiting me in the armory if he\u2019s been properly advised of my arrival.\u201d<\/div>\n