So, I’ve gained quite a few more followers than I thought in such a short amount of time. Everyone seems to be really active and supportive on this site; it’s refreshing considering, well, this is the internet.

So to bring everyone up to speed and to smooth out my thoughts on what I’m working on:

I have a rough draft already scribbled by hand into a Moleskine, and now I am working on scribing this into digital format while also polishing, adding detail, developing the characters, etc; all that writery stuff.

I have plans for multiple... sequels? They don’t involve the same characters, necessarily, but they do take place within the same universe/world. I have a solid idea for a second book, and some murky ideas on a third and fourth (plant zombies?). 

The books aren’t just about the plot, but the plot helps define the world around it. I am really writing books about the state of man in the future and what everything has turned into and the whys and hows are up to the reader to figure out with some nudging clues from yours truly. I guess the plots are pretty cool too.

My writing has heavy influences from Dungeons and Dragons, Lovecraft, Asimov, Douglas Adams, I don’t know, maybe other stuff. Mainly the tabletop RPG is what drove me to write. The Origin universe was originally a campaign setting I was going to run as a first time DM in which I told the players to come up with anything they want to be and I would figure out rules. This necessitated an infinite universe where anything could be possible, and so it is. Science Fiction mixed with fantasy elements the Origin universe is essentially the D&D fantasy universe fast forwarded by a few thousand years, with our own universe intertwined. Everything that happens in the real world is canon in Origin.

This is a lot to read, so good on ya for sticking it out if you’re still reading. I am learning a lot about writing as I go and what I have down so far is much better than the sample draft I have uploaded. I hope to go back soon and rewrite the first three chapters, but not from the ground up, just some more polishing.

So thank you for following,

Mike