The blog has been quiet for several weeks, as I have been working hard on two fronts. One is this pesky day job, which pays the bills. The other is recovering from minor surgery. That part is almost complete. The day job continues until I strike it rich with authoring or until my retirement piggy becomes large enough. I have been working on updates to the first Book of Loukas, and also sketching out chapters […]
Update from Rupert Read More »
One of the interesting aspects of writing fiction is that, unless you decide to use existing locations, you have to invent stuff. For Books of Loukas, I decided fairly early on that although the locations would bear more than a passing resemblance to places I have visited or which I know about, I would not, except in the broadest geographical sense, use real places. Instead I would invent places, although I wanted them to be
Inventing Stuff – Archipelagos Read More »
When I started the sketches that would eventually coalesce as The Books Of Loukas 5 years ago, I had no idea what I was going to have to actually do, in terms of detail work. Along the way, apart from inventing 20 or so characters, I realized that I needed to invent an entire town, geographical area and other aspects of an imaginary world. This is not like Tolkien, who invented not only a complete
Books of Loukas – dilemmas on background material Read More »
A limited-duration download of a novella from Book 3 of Books Of Loukas is now available.
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