May 28, 2015

Secret #3

I don't know how to stop the asteroid.

I know how it was made, I know when it will land, I could even give you a pretty good statistical breakdown of the size and types of dragons that slumber beneath it's adamant crust -- hell, I have backstories and ridiculous dragon-names for a few like Tyrinel the Inferno, Sorrow the Sure, Bex the Assymetrically-Winged. I know the song First-Singer Teon wrote the day they cast the dragons off the planet, I know the taste of the wine that Jalyx poured for him as the Singer wept alone that night in their bedchamber.

But I don't know how to stop it from falling.

As of right now, working on the draft - looking down the long tunnel of the tale -- I just see an enticing but stubborn blank.

That's the fun, you see. I know so much about the world, about the heroes, about the Past and the Future and lightning-Now. But some things I can't see until I get there. Unlike the vast numbers of far wiser writers out there I only have the barest of outlines. Want to see it?

That's what I have. And some of it's wrong! I'm sure of it! It's just a road map, a way to keep moving forward.

I can't wait to get there though. I can't wait to get there, when that asteroid [at this point technically a meteor] starts pushing it's way through the atmosphere, and the wyrms start stirring, and and and....! I can't wait to write it and I can't wait for you all to read it.

Thank you all so much for coming on this adventure with me. Secret #3 isn't really a secret -- it's that I'm crazy and weird. But by backing this campaign I'm your crazy and weird. I crazy and weird for you.

Required Contest Update So My Anxiety Demons Will Quiet Down Briefly

Three days to go in the contest!  I won't exaggerate, but we're slipping down the ranks a bit - and there's going to be a lot of movement in the next 72 hours as everyone fights to hold onto the top five slots. You've all put in your gold coins - you've all put up with my pestering -- it breaks me a little to be this mercenary, but I need your help even more this last stretch.  We have to keep pushing or we're going to fall out the bottom of this contest - you know people, you know people who like books, or you know people who have 8.99.  Show them the site, share the exclusive chapters with them - send them to me on twitter @gderekadams, I will patiently and shamelessly do my best to convince them. I'm still pinging everyone that's ever been on any social media/contact list I've ever had, but there's only so much time left and only so many people that I have incriminating high school poetry on file from.  Take a look at the leaderboard - we are all neck and neck!

Stay with it Squires! Keep sipping lemonade Wild Mages! We can do it! AND BY ALL THAT IS HOLY LET'S JUST WIN THIS MOTHERFUCKING CONTEST SO I CAN STOP BOTHERING YOU NICE PEOPLE AND JUST WRITE YOU A STUPID BOOK ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AND DRAGONS.

[Contest ends Sunday night - May 31st - 12 PST]

Remember the sign. The circle that holds even thought it wishes to break.