Toreas Blog

Chapter 14 is here. It’s a true monster and it finally introduces the third of the main characters, Shimon. And you also get to see why Eric hates nobles.

I had all four wisdom teeth pulled at once a week ago and since then I had a pretty strict regiment of heavy medication. No pain, but there is this fuzzy feeling in my head which especially when I want to write, makes it hard to concentrate. It’s not so much like nailing pudding to the wall, it feels more like juggling with it. A very frustrating process that ends up in a gigantic mess every single time and has to be aborted as an activity all together. The few small moments my mind is clear enough I try to write as fast as I can, but it’s very though for editing. So next update might be a while.

Another chapter with Taji’ra in it, read chapter 13. The baron has a guest, bringing news from Lionor.

This chapter took forever. I just could not find the right way to write it. There were a few small things wrong that made the entire chapter wrong. It still doesn’t feel perfectly right, but right enough to advance the story. Next one is a big one, but I’m already on revising stage there, hopefully a bit quicker this time than with 13.

I actually missed the 1000 readers point by a bit. Currently the story has slightly more than 1100 readers and it’s growing rapidly.

So first and foremost: Thank you.

I write this story for my own enjoyment as well as an experiment in storytelling and apparently it appealed to a lot of other people as well. To blatantly copy my own homepage:

The story currently is 32,410 words long, spans 13 chapters and if it was printed, it would be 137 pages long.

That right there is already pretty good. I have currently about twice that much written down (not all connected together) and waiting for editing. And all of that taken together, about 25 times (or maybe even more) as much worth of stories in my head.

Yes Toreas is going to be long. Yes there is a lot to come. And no, not all and everything is about Eric, Zara, Shimon and Taji’ra. I wont even say if one or all survive till the end of the story. That I can be mean, I think I already established, so no character is safe, ever.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do writing it and that you come back, read more and tell everyone you know about it. And pineapples will be eaten.

And here goes chapter 12 of Toreas. Eric get’s to meet the King and get his ‘reward’.

Now this has been one of those hate chapters. I love it, for the story it tells, but I had to tinker on it forever to get it into this shape. It’s not as perfect as I wanted it to be, but it’s as close to it as I could make it. For chapter 13 I’m being mean again. Well, meaner.

I decided to actually use twitter more in a fashion that it was meant to be used. The blog is for all those things I want to say in more than 140 characters or that have a certain significance to them none the less. Twitter is more fleeting and up to the minute. So for example I will post progress on twitter, when I finish a write down of a chapter, make progress on something else, have writers block or whatever else comes my way in terms of Toreas.

That way the blog is a cleaner place where you can find the things most dear to me and if you are so inclined, keep closer to the pulse of Toreas by watching the twitter status run along. And of course for your easy viewing pleasure, the blog also shows you the latest status updates on the right hand side.