I had AP classes, and sometimes homework took most of my evenings and weekends, leaving little time to work on personal projects. These days, there isn’t any waiting around for perfect days to write, where I have lots of time. If I only have an […]
Category: Journal Entries
Journal Entries Part 10
This would have been my sophomore year in high school, and yes, most of the time, health class was a blow-off class with plenty of time to write, read, or work on homework. I remember that we watched a lot of movies with no corresponding […]
Journal Entries Part 9
I don’t remember a lot of the writing that I was coming up with years ago. You will see “Lay of Toranon.” That was inspired by Tolkien’s lays. And I really thought I could write a song. Before you ask, I no longer have it, […]
Journal Entries Part 8
This entry was basically just providing little updates and containing more stepping on the toes of copyrighted works. I had been able to get a lot of work done because it was Christmas break. During the school year, work on my personal writing was spotty […]
Journal Entries Part 7
You can see more where I was getting ideas (or just stealing) names for the old stories. Orlando came from Orlando Bloom from Pirates of the Caribbean. Vigo was from Viggo Mortensen from Lord of the Rings. Luah is a dog character from The Incredible […]
Journal Entries Part 6
The Stone of Light was an old trilogy that I got pretty far on. It was the last one that I wrote before Sparks Shall Rise because I remember working on it in my junior year of high school. In my Spanish class, we wrote […]
Journal Entries Part 5
All those years ago, I kept notebooks and printed out papers for the stories. Sometimes I was working on them at school and had to write the story by hand and then type it into the computer later. When I worked on Sparks Shall Rise, […]
Journal Entries Part 4
I know that some authors like printing out early drafts of their stories to do an edit on paper rather than on the computer. I’m always too worried that I’ll waste a lot of paper, so I tend to do everything on the computer. I […]
Journal Entries Part 3
Here you can see where Torrannon came from. I’m pretty sure the gods’ names were taken from other things, particularly The Silmarillion. That’s one of the many reasons I never went too far into creating the two older series. May 30, 2008 I’ve been working […]
Journal Entries Part 2
When I was writing this fantasy story, I didn’t give much thought to copyright, so I used names and variations of names from other books and movies, especially The Lord of the Rings. Yes, these stories were ultimately abandoned, and no, I will not be […]










