Oh yes, there will be blood.<\/p>\n
I’ve talked about it before, but I’m nearing the point of no return for certain characters.\u00a0 This will be their final bow, and that realization is both humbling and terrifying.<\/p>\n
One of the things that I set out to do as a storyteller is tell the story of a character without a bias.\u00a0 Even though my universe is a complete work of fiction, there is still a spark of truth that is set to the events.\u00a0 I try, in no uncertain terms, to show when someone has something interest to say, rather than presenting it as fact.\u00a0 The reader can determine whether or not it is important to the story, but the character, in revealing that portion of his or her nature, can clearly represent what is important to them<\/em>.<\/p>\n Though this novel lies at the end of a trilogy, I’ve included new characters, several which show up as late as the final chapter.\u00a0 Some of them have been referenced to, and some have had no precursory introduction.\u00a0 Their lives are at stake as well during all the turmoil, and it would have been crude and disheartening if I didn’t display just what odds they were up against.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, there are veterans of my saga who are forced to come to grips with their own mortality.\u00a0 My readership may already know of the kind of damage that can be done within several hundred pages.\u00a0 Some characters are not meant to make it through to the end.\u00a0 This doesn’t mean that they weren’t important.\u00a0 They had their role to play, as we all do.\u00a0 The best that they can do is have an impact on someone’s life.\u00a0 In that way, they can leave some kind of lasting legacy.<\/p>\n There will be those who survive the horrors of battle.\u00a0 These heroes (and villains – though who is to say which is which?) will bear the scars of lost loved ones, of broken dreams and unfounded wishes.\u00a0 Of course, not all who survive war end up unscathed.\u00a0 Some survivors leave only a broken, maimed husk behind, the memories of their hellish encounters enough to rend their very sanity.\u00a0 Others walk away with only a fleeting semblance of hope, a rapidly diminishing black spot growing inside their hearts.\u00a0 If all that is evil in the world is left to fester, what hope<\/em> could good possibly venture?<\/p>\n Yet, among the shadows, a new light dawns.\u00a0 There are<\/em> those who fight, knowing that the odds are ever against them.\u00a0 Some press on, despite all the pain and torment that plagues their lives.\u00a0 Few laugh in the face of danger, tempting fate like some exotic lover.\u00a0 As long as their is a world to protect, to help endure, they will <\/em>remain.\u00a0 The tales of those who fell too soon may be written in stone, or on tattered pages, but it is the blood they spill that leaves a permanent place in history.\u00a0 Oh yes… there will<\/em> be blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh yes, there will be blood. I’ve talked about it before, but I’m nearing the point of no return for certain characters.\u00a0 This will be their final bow, and that realization is both humbling and terrifying. One of the things that I set out to do as a storyteller is tell the story of a […]<\/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-39","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}