So I have been writing for …well my entire life. This is the list of stories I have “finished”, in that they contain a beginning, middle, and end. Not a huge list, but then most of my early years I spent bouncing from one project to another so very few of them ever were finished. Since I’m matured as a writer, I have a better track record of finishing.
Silverfire: Technically a set of stories (not just one boo) about a silver fox who rescues a kingdom. Other characters include Brightfire and Redfire. They were all, likely no more than a few thousand words and very rough, but they had endings. The idea came from Brian Jacques’ Redwall books, in which I was rather infatuated in my younger years. This story did evolve with me a bit and I have a much more current version of it started but the concept is so simple really just a trunk novel. However, Silverfire holds a special place in my heart and I’d love to use her in a novel some day. (Though probably with a name change.)
Gryphons, Gryfalcons, and Makkar: The story of a gryffin princess who finds allies in gryfalcons, and enemies in the makkar. A milestone in my career, this story was over 100 pages (in Microsoft Word). I was very proud. Again, trunk novel, but the main character Wirith’s name pops up when I need a name for a gryffin in other stories. This idea came from Mercedes Lackey’s The Black Gryphon trilogy.
Warehouse: A girl with powers ends up in a house where children with powers are raised and must unravel the mystery of why they exist. Totally ripped off from X-men. I tried fixing it once, but it’s a trunk novel.
Demonslayer: A woman with amnesia finds out she was trained by a group who are the last line of defense against demons, and that group has been wiped out. This story marks my first fully fleshed out world, and important first step into being a high fantasy writer. I have other novels and stories and characters planned in this world. However, the story is still rather immature and needs a complete rewrite, especially considering it’s only 23k. (Man, it felt really long when I wrote it.) This was influenced by a book google helped me to remember, Rhapsody: Child of Blood by Elizabeth Haydon.
Blessings of the Nerial: A little faith never hurt anyone, but it’s about to start. Wrote during NaNo one year, and I’m not positive if there were any strong influences for this one. I really like the concept but I don’t actually like the main character …so if I were going to rewrite it, it would need an overhaul.
Shifting Winds: Angelica is a princess who lives life the way she wants, until she’s kidnapped by a demon. I love this story, but something is fundamentally broken in it, and I don’t have the skill to fix it. Inspiration for this story came from a mini series that played in a Harvest Moon video game. Bizarre right?
The Colors Of: Environment was ruined in a war and computers are designed to look like animals. This story was inspired by a Pokemon fan fic I wrote back in my fan fic days …so yeah. It took on a decent life of it’s own since then. I’d love to clean it up some day.
The Asir/Vanir War (12k): Loki leads a group a vanir to Asgard in order to stop the war raging on Midgard. Meant to be a prequel to a story I haven’t finished. This is a short story (fantasy short story), but it is clean and polished, and thus it gets to be on this list. I’ve loved Norse mythology for a long time. I wrote this before the whole Marvel/Loki/Tom Hiddleston thing.
The Storyteller: Once upon a time there was a prince. She was a girl. My first complete and polished novel. I’ve been working on the sequel.
