Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Damned Rats

http://mm1145.deviantart.com/art/Damned-Rats-261644013

I am still working on some more things but in the mean time I will post up a short Warhammer story I wrote.

It is loosely based of the 2 gangs me and a friend had for Mordheim and the characters that where in them

Friday, 9 September 2011

9. Decisions

http://mm1145.deviantart.com/gallery/29239857#/d49bom2

I think I am going to declare this the end of the first section. I am going to take a break from writing this to write something different I will also take the time to combine these into a proper section and post it

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

8. The world outside your world

again sorry for the delay but this is another long part of the story I might take a bit of a break from this story to post some of my others


http://mm1145.deviantart.com/#/d45ylcu

Monday, 11 July 2011

Monday, 27 June 2011

Closing the rift

sorry for the long delay in getting this posted but I have been bissy and have not had much time to write

http://mm1145.deviantart.com/art/planestraider-part-6-215243379

this section is about twice as long as the others but I could not find a convient time to split it and it did not feel right to stop in the middle of the action

Monday, 23 May 2011

The last stand of the seraphim

again I have written a story based on a fragment of a dream I am going to start another series based on this and the previous story but for now they are standalone

http://mm1145.deviantart.com/#/d3h0gt9

Again it is interesting how quickly this became a full story it went form a fragment when I woke up to a full story by the time I had gotten on the train to go to work.

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

tower of glass

this is not realy a complete story it is half a story that I took form a dream I had a week ago and that would not leave me alone

http://mm1145.deviantart.com/gallery/29783802#/d3ecs9r

people who work will recognise that on days where you do not have to work (weekends usually) you still wake up at the same time and then you remember that it is not a work day and your turn over and go back to sleep. Well I did that on Saturday a week ago but instead of getting back to sleep I fell into that half asleep state where you can dream but are still awake enough to recognise you might be dreaming. And that is when I dreamt this story. I did not acutely dream the story what I dreamt was that I was writing this story. It would not leave me alone all week and by Wednesday when I had some time to write it had become quite solid so I wrote it down
The problem is that I have no time to start another story series and I do not have any idea about what or where this one should go or the time to work on its plot but I will post it up and see what people think.

Monday, 11 April 2011

Friday, 1 April 2011

Monday, 21 March 2011

Travels with a planestrider

Now I have this place to put things I am going to try out something different than what I thought I might do

I am going to write a story and post up each small part as it is finished rather than as with my other stories waiting till the entire part is finished. Very like the way a web comic is posted a page at a time. as before I will post the story and then a bit more to this post explaining about it.

so I hope you enjoy the first part of "Travels with a planestrider"

http://mm1145.deviantart.com/gallery/29239857#/d3c4wrc

This is acutely the latest of my story worlds and it is the result of the flash of inspiration I posted about last post it will be interesting to see if people can spot what I have been inspired by.

I am a bit worried for 2 reasons
1 I am jumping in without a total plan of where I am going. I have most of it mapped out but not all and as I am posting it as I go along retcons are going to be a issue.
2 I was worried when I was rereading it that I might be being a bit to heavy handed in the wording but I am letting it stand is it is

Part of what I am trying out with this story is writing it form pure first person and I found that much easier than I expected and almost easier than the style I have chosen for my other writing

Monday, 14 March 2011

on inspration and blocks

A little insight on how the human mind works (or at least the close approximation that is mine)

I have had some idea fragments floating round for a while. Things like "what if this" or "how about if I try this" or "I think I want to do the other" but I had been unable to fit them into one of my current plans. Then about a week ago when I was walking along Cornmarket Street suddenly it all fused together into a coherent whole I can remember exactly where I was and exactly what I was listing to when it did. 2 hours a cup of hot chocolate and a chocolate brownie later and I have nearly 2000 words and a plan for a lot more

on the other hand I have still not got a name for a character who I first created years ago and who is in the majority of what I have written the large majority of what I have pre-written and for whom I have a life history

Friday, 4 March 2011

Ork fort

This is the first story I will post up here.
This is not the first story I started it is the first one I actually finished. it is a Warhammer 40,000 story based on a game I played on evening in my local games workshop

This story is based on a game I played one evening I was Tyranids as usual and my opponent was Space Wolfs it was a very good game which he won by holding on to his objective and slowly pulling his men back to it. Despite his strategy if the game had gone on for another turn or more I would have won in the end. So when I was walking home I was thinking about how an army in an obviously losing position could win and the notion of a strike force awaiting extraction came to me.
I probably made more progress on this quicker than the rest of my stories because a lot of the work on the plot was already done by the battle and by the fantastic word of Warhammer 40,000 and all I need to do was to flesh out the characters and tell it form their point of view