Ancestor Magic

The ancestor magic found here is extremely loosley based on real cultures. Okay, maybe that’s even pushing it too far. This is: “Oh, that’s a cool idea. And so is that one over there. They’re from different belief sets/ideoligies totally? Don’t care. I like them both.”
Ancestor magic is practiced by people who must put years […]

Great Father

Okay. More research. More ideas.
Great Father is what is known as a Sleeper. He volunteered to be a ritual sacrifice so that he could stay around and protect the lands. He was not, originally, a bad guy, as typical bad guys go. His intentions were good, but, as the saying goes, we are all the […]

AvatarSearch

For those needing to research things related to the occult for developing your own magic systems and, perhaps even religions and/or cultures, I present you with:
AvatarSearch: the Search Engine of the Occult Internet.

To Kill A God

So how would our hero have any chance to destroy Great Father? That one was giving me some consternation myself until I started thinking about the two primary gods in this novel in a different light. Great Father is the oldest of ancestor spirits still around (with the exception of First Ancestor.) That pretty much […]

Totem Magic + First Ancestor

Totem magic in this book is based upon some of the ideas of animism and animal spirit guides from modern pagan beliefs. I should say loosely based as the research is all minimal right now and I can’t use the idea of someone having been trained in the skills and rituals needed.
In the beginning of […]

Quick Update

Just a quick update to say that, yes, I am still working on the story. Got quite a bit done last night (somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of the outline) but am not finding the soul of the story that I’m looking for in there yet. I can see pieces, a few paths towards it, […]

How writing really works…

Here’s a great little piece that explains just how writing really works!
http://zette.blogspot.com/2005/10/author-versus-character.html
Enjoy, but don’t laugh. This is reality, damn it!

Digging for story - Part 8 Brief Synopsis

Here’s a brief look at the story as it is starting to form. This was based on part of the Instant Dramatica method from the book Dramatica for Screenwriters by Armando Saldaña Mora.
Thrust into a new world, with new beliefs that he can not understand, a disheartened missionary searches for the faith he lost years […]

Mapping 2

Here’s a slightly update version of the map, along with a legend for the places listed. Not as much as I would like to have, but a good start. All names are the “english” equivalents. Culturally prevalent names will be added later.

The Landing Sea - created when the first ancestor fell from the Dreaming into […]

A Nugget of Gold

They say that novels must be written, much as songs or movies, with an eye towards the sale. While many may get angry over the very idea, it only makes sense that if you want to sell the book (I do) and keep selling books (I do), then you have to be able to […]

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