Fiction and Fantasy

Tag: The Victor’s Blade

  • Excerpt – TVB: “Isalaina”

    This scene is getting a facelift! For a revised and up-to-date version of this excerpt, check back April 19th! Or just read on, you rebel, you. Update: New version is now live! Check it out here. His whole form seemed to solidify on the spot. He swallowed hard and tried to avert his gaze. He…

  • Origins of The Victor’s Blade – Part 4 of 4

    The Victor’s Blade has undergone more birthing pains, I think, than any other book in the history of authorship. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong (en garde. I love reading stories about other writers’ misery so I can commiserate). I was well-along in The Victor’s Blade. Jaranin had left his hometown of Sinoa. He’d…

  • Origins of The Victor’s Blade – Part 3 of 4

    I could no longer keep the title “The Golden Sword.” I was devastated (as only a pre-teen can be) at the news. Of all things to shatter my slowly-progressing story’s development, it had to be a LEGO set. A LEGO set! I’d been a purveyor and purchaser of LEGO bricks for years. My first set…

  • Excerpt – TVB: “The Storyteller”

    “Are we forgetting anything?” Jaranin asked, looking up from trying to tame his tousled brown hair. His eyes skirted their surroundings. Other than the pond he’d been using as a mirror and the trees all around, there wasn’t much to see. Well, besides his partner-in-crime, Elun, who was standing there bedecked with what must have…

  • Origins of The Victor’s Blade – Part 2 of 4

    I’m not sure how long The Golden Sword story lay waiting before I unearthed it. The story still hadn’t left me. I pulled it up on the family computer and, knowing my friend was never going to return to a one-off story he’d never mentioned again, I started to create my own additions. I added…

  • Origins of The Victor’s Blade – Part 1 of 4

    I mentioned yesterday how a friend of mine played a pivotal role in starting The Victor’s Blade. Ready for story time? As children are wont to do, my writing buddy/best friend and I tried to go over to each others’ houses as often as possible. We’d play pretend or video games or action figures–whatever suited…

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