Introduction

It's been five years since I began this journey. And that's what it is, a journey. I was first inspired by the philosophical and doomsday prophet, Ansurimbour Kellhus; who is the creation of  Canadian author R. Scott Bakker, writer of The Prince of Nothing Trilogy, and, The Aspect Emperor Trilogy. Though my character, who shares the same name, was first inspired and written as a cheap carbon copy, was first inspired by Bakker's work, the only similarity left to him is his name. I am proud to say I am coming into my own as a writer.

While my world began with the inspiration of Bakker it drew on several other authors, such as Tolkein, and even a little Terry Goodkind. However, it wasn't until recently that the world of Eurwa started to come together. The ideas had always been floating in the back of my mind, but I never could put them down on the page. They just seemed too...vague, too vast and complicated for me to ever write. I tried several times, but nothing ever seemed feel right. Even the first attempt at this seemed perposterous. That was until I picked up Gardens of the Moon, byt Steven Erikson. My first observation was that he had a very similar writing style to mine. As I continued on in the series I began toying with the idea of working out my story in a similar structure as was set up in The Malazan Book of the Fallen. I even came to break out of my idea of a trilogy for my story. That's when I took on the world. My world.

When you create a world you need a lot of things. Mainly some sort of cultural motivation behind each and every nation, people, culture, race, you name it, in your world. You also need to be able to sort out the complexities of the histories of these nations, have the always existed? How did they come to be? Who knows who, and how do they get along in the political spectrum. All this and more, geographic locations, how has this affected them? Isolationists or not? It can be daunting. And, for me it is. My world is simply huge and it keeps growing, every time I begin to think about it new things come up. When I first started I viewed the world as small, simply part of a continent, the majority of that continent mind you, but that was it. Now I have six continents and each one is going to be showing up in one way or another throughout this series. And yes, it is a series. No longer three books, now I'm looking to double that, if not match Erikson's megolith of ten novels. Ladies and gentlemen I intend to succeed. I hope you enjoy this look into a world that I am still fashioning. I have everything needed for All That Lies Bare. Now I must write it.

You will not get the full story here. This blog is merely a means to talk about my writing, give you ideas on where I am going, and on how well the story is progressing. I will provide snips of the rough draft, but you'll have to forgive me if I enjoy to keep my work close until it is finished. I will provide you the prologue, and if I receive any requests about information you may want about the world of Euwa and my work, that won't give away my story, then feel free to contact me.

You can reach me by email at: tytex200@hotmail.com

Let us begin.