Well, here I am; over a year later and I'm still writing...sometimes. I have made moderate progress in the story but I have not being able to move away from the begining of the tale. I guess the curse of a writer is to never be happy with his or her's own work.

I have created three chapters and a two part prologue. Chapter three feels very rough to me, more so then one and two. I may write the entire thing, chpt. three I mean. The focus of the chapter was to bring some light to the mysterious men who have taken Hallarian captive after he was seperated from Ulyean. However, again I found that the focus unintentionally shifted to Ulyean racing across the forests and plains of Thea looking for Hallarian. I am starting to wonder if maybe this may have been Ulyean's tale all along...To be continued I guess.

Now, I feel pretty good about part one of the Prologue. It is basically a overview of past events that lead to this point in history, much like this story was originally an overview of another story I wanted to tell. I better be careful not too get to involved with it or I'll like ten books with only the first few chapters written. Anyway, I only thing I plan to do to part one is some editing and maybe a little more paddiing. Now Part two starts wher part one leaves of but quickly shifts into a backstory for the story's main villian, and his rise to power.

Well that is it for now. I'll try not to wait a year to write another entry.

I have just finished writing the first chapter in The Rise of Hallarian (Me? No I am not he but I liked the name). It was a fun experience pulling this fictional tale together from ideas I had floating around in my head. The funny thing is, I never intended to make this tale, about a young man who must rise above his own selfish revenge and become a great leader, into a potential novel.

It was something that I wrote as part of a Historical overview for a screenplay that I wanted to create. I wanted to have a sense of depth so started with a world history. In this fictional world of Thea there was a man whose family was killed by a evil man bent on controling the land. On his quest of revenge he meets a society of people that remember a time long ago that has been lost to history because of natural catastrophies that nearly wipped the people form the earth. Their duty was conserve this history and wait for a time when the old beauty of a lost empire could be resurected. Obviously the character of hallarian is taken in by these people who see the young man as a tool to beused to resurect honor and justice to the land.

You see how much depth there is to his epic story. How could I not write it. So I tried to write it as a short story for an English class at college, but it kept growing until I had a 36 pages and it was only the begining. I hadn't even sratch the surface, and hallarian only just lost his family and found himself in a troubled situation as I concluded all I could for the class.

I am taking another class this summer in which the instructor from my current class is letting me continue the novel as a special project. (So Here's hoping that I finish what I started).