The Deranged Imperator

My, my… ten months and still no update, eh? I wonder what’s up? Heh, like I need to ask.

I’ve noticed that these past two years have been rather trying on my productive skills, and I really must apologize to anyone who’s been looking forward to my new works; however, it has taken much longer than I expected to straighten up my head. I’m not going into details, but suffice to say that my rather lax activity these past years were indirectly caused by the effort it took to straighten up my head, not to mention the rather haphazard steps I’ve been taking trying to build the framework of my novel.

Novel, did I say? Yes, I did. For the past two years (more than that, I suppose), I have been working on and off—in-between bouts of periodic insanity—on the first book of five in my fantasy series (Jaydee should know about it, and Ronald Atilano, I guess). For now, I can’t really elaborate and I can’t give a definite date of completion for it… But if you want an idea of how it’s gonna turn out, I guess I can say that it’s not in any way similar to Tolkien, Jordan, or Brooks (definitely not Brooks). It’s probably not quite as melodramatic or graphic as Goodkind, either. And it absolutely is not going to be like the "fanta-crap" GMA 7 has been releasing (sorry, Ederic ^_^).  More likely, it’s going to be a bit like David Eddings’ Belgariad and Malloreon series (although, not quite). While Dave has been quite a big influence to me for quite a while, our preferences in style—both in writing style and the kind of fantasy—have been similar, even prior to my reading of his books.

While I myself have been chaffing at the time it’s taking me, I must say that I am also rather pleased to have been delayed, since along the way I have been able to gather up some more ideas, while discarding others. Now, it’s coming together rather well, but still far from completion. I’m taking more time than I realized largely because I’ve decided to conceptualize the series as a whole, rather than making it up as I release the succeeding books. I’d rather not do the latter… It would look unnatural, and I don’t want my characters to lose what little respect they have for me in the first place (LOL). I’ve actually written the first three chapters 3 (count ‘em) years ago, but I plan to take an axe to it early next year, and do a major revision. Also, as of now I don’t have a publisher, but I do have a few in mind. (Overseas, of course. Who publishes this kind of stuff in the Philippines?)

As for Hundred Mirrors, I was planning on converting the back-end to Wordpress, but I don’t have a PHP-able account and I’m not sure if Ederic’s already set up the one he was offering me, so it may remain on indefinite hold. And concerning the reviews I’ve been promising, I’ll probably put one up later this week.

See ‘ya.

~ by deranged-imperator on December 11, 2006.