Celtic Bard: Blog

I have a pre-announcement announcement on my external blog (http://jmfhildebrandt.livejournal.com/) concerning my writing. I would post the news here as well, but I don't want to get in trouble with the webmaster, so do me a favor and check it out on my other blog.

I got an e-mail from a reader inquiring about the stories of mine on Finestories.com and SOL that are currently "In Progress." While he did not mention the poem The Prophecy that is posted on Finestories, I will say that that particular project is part of something much larger involving the first novel I ever wrote, which is easy to tell that it was my first. With luck, nobody will ever see that in its original, finished form. EVER! The concept was good, the characters engaging, and the writing . . . well, why dwell on a novice's (started as something to do between graduating high school and going to college) first try? Let's just say The Prophecy is on a shelf until I get around to completely rewriting 600+ pages of very epic fantasy. As for the other four long neglected works currently incomplete, I wrote the following reply to the reader:

"I am actually working (albeit slowly) on all of them. Unfortunately real life has intruded since around the new year, when I had planned on having a bunch of things done that wound up going back on the shelf. Enter the Darkness has just been updated, the next chapter of Future Distorted is going to be done soon (hopefully), An Abridged History of the Order is research intensive so I have to have long periods of free time in order to be able to write with several research web pages up in the background, and I have hit something of a block on The Death of Love in Morristown (in other words, that one might be a while in getting updated). Look for the next chapter of Enter the Darkness by the end of tomorrow at the latest, as I will be submitting it as soon as I am done checking my e-mail."

As the e-mail says, Enter the Darkness Chapter 14 has been submitted and should be up either later today or early tomorrow. Enjoy!

As is intimated in the subject head, real life has intruded/aided my intention to have had something posted by now on one of my open projects. The intrusion comes in the form of work (as opposed to writing blocks), which has gotten extremely busy of late and means that I have not had time to sit down and type anything into the computer, never mind edit and post it. It has aided because while I do not normally have access to a computer that I can write on at work, I have had time to write down stuff by hand. This means that the next chapte of Enter the Darkness is close to finished, I have been working on finishng the next chapter of Future Distorted and Anomaly of the Fates, and I have even gotten the beginnings of some other things started (one of which will likely be something I will only publish, not post, though I may post snippets here (on LiveJournal). All of that is my way of saying please be patient. I know some of you have given up hope that some of the stories left unfinished will never be picked back up, but I am working on them (most of them) and I do plan to post something soon.

Thanks for the patience and have faith, writing is someting I have to do (it is the only ways to get the crazy/wonderful/odd/etc. ideas out of my head), not something I do as a hobby that might be dropped when it gets old.

Another quicky for you. Chapter 3 of Anomaly of the Fates is submitted. Look for it either later today or tomorrow.

Per the title, here it is: Chapter Two of Anomaly of the Fates has been submitted and should be available today or early tomorrow. Enjoy!