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Angel of Darkness
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A work in progress
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Yes, I am writing a book. And yes, the title is
Angel of Darkness.
If I actually get it published, it will be the first
in an unnamed trilogy. Right now I've only just started.
I won't be including any excerpts here for a while,
not until I actually make noticeable progress. But I will give
some information on the book.
Angel of Darkness is by no means my first attempt
at a book. Primarily because my first attempt was in kindergarten,
with a picture book titled "Animals." It's not even
my first serious attempt, as that honor was taken by Beyond
The Door in sixth grade. It's just the longest lasting, and
the one to go through the most changes. Angel of Darkness
was conceived not long after Beyond the Door, but was set
aside because of that work.
When I "finished" the draft of Beyond
the Door, I turned my attention back to the story of one Gabriel
Kinell, outcast. I even went so far as to do some (bad) character
sketches, and write a few passages, which may be posted here at
some point. But the story seemed to have no real place to go,
and was abandoned. Several characters were tossed aside in the
process, but Gabriel lingered.
His name changed, going from Gabriel Kinell, outcast,
to Gabriel Moonshadow, mage. He formed a new identity, and with
it a new appearance. But bits of the old story lingered and began
to fuse with the new. The ideas came, but not the desire to write
them again. I didn't have the will.
Until October 1998.
One night that month, in drawing class, I was inexplicably
seized with the desire to draw Gabriel, even though to date not
a single drawing of him had actually been decent. Still, I drew.
And the drawing actually began to look like him. I drew a second
one, and finally saw him outside of my mind's eye.
That drawing was all it took to bring back the desire
to tell his story. The work began almost immediately, with new
premises, new characters, new paths. The story became not just
that of an outcast, but that of someone beating the odds and finding
his place in the world. That of someone learning that not everything
is as it seems. That of someone discovering a secret inner strength,
a force... power.
But some things never change. Gabriel's strange abandonment,
his human name and that of his mother, his father's profession,
and one of the incidents of the original story remained behind,
lurking in the background, hinting at what almost was Angel
of Darkness.
If Angel of Darkness actually does get published,
it will be part of a trilogy. I have not decided on a name for
the trilogy, but the three stories in it and their plots are already
decided.
Angel of Darkness
The Sound of Thunder
Legends
In fact, The Sound of Thunder is based on a
short story connected to Beyond the Door!