Just Be There Blog

When characters make demands, who am I not to listen?

An idea just now struck me. All these years I have persisted in writing a novel; actually I've visualized maybe three if not four novels in series to tell Malyn's story. The idea is so very simple and Malyn smacked me up side the back of my head for taking years to settle on it: ('it' being this "not a novel" idea).

I have written chapters that could as easily be completed as short stories and some combined into one or more novellas. If I place these short stories and novellas in order I'd have only a few more short stories to patch in holes to make a decent anthology that say a traveling Bard could make a decent living. (I'm thinking of something like the "Thieve's World" anthologies edited by Robert Lynn Asprin, which revolve around a single theme, a specific location where unsavory sorts have congergated. Only, instead of having many authors contributing, I will merely avail myself as a scribe who is privileged to transcribe these soon to be famous characters into the annuals of Bardic Tales. After all, these characters did have a major role in saving all of Cerilia. They deserve our respect if not our gratitude.)


Malyn never wanted fame, nor did she ever seek to become a hero, yet she has always wanted her story/stories told. Other characters who share her story however, want very much to bask in the flame of fame and fortune. For them it's a matter of good business and or family or national pride.

Well, Malyn as well as Trellen, Vollig, Brenda, Cayen, and Britta are rolling their eyes at me. I'm thinking they are wondering how anyone can be so thick!