Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. I just wanted to start off by saying thank you to all of you who have read our book or are currently reading it. This process has been such an experience and the main reason we did it was so that we wanted to get our ideas out on paper for ourselves, and so that you, the reader, could hopefully get some enjoyment out of this crazy idea we came up with back in 2015. I hope you are enjoying it and we would love to hear some feedback from you all, whether it be here in the comments or reviews on our Facebook page or Amazon.
When we first started this book I had no real experience writing outside of what school had provided me, and it taught me a lot of lessons along the way. I had a hard time really developing the characters in a way that made sense to someone who was not in my head. Not being able to describe someone in a way that truly showed who the characters took a lot away from the character as a whole. It took a lot of working with other people, especially Parker, to help me develop these characters in a way that made them come to life in the book. I spent more time editing than I did actually writing at first, but after a while, I started to get a better understanding of what I needed to do to make it make sense to the reader and not just myself. I am telling you all this because writing is not easy and is something that takes practice, and for all of you out there that follow us here on this blog, do not hesitate to write just because you do not have experience. Writing this book was one of the best experiences I have had and has taught me so much.
When we initially came up with the idea for this story it was nothing like the finished product we released. The initial idea was more of a satirical and more sadistic take on the old Jim Carrey movie “The Truman Show”, where Earth was being broadcast to another set of planets to show a lesser planet of individuals for entertainment purposes. This small idea spawned so many more creative ideas, and now we have an entire universe that we have come up with. This universe we have built has so much more content to offer, and we hope that you all are ready for a crazy ride because we are working on the second book as I type this now, and it only gets crazier from here.
The content we have lined up for all of you, I believe, will really intrigue you. Our story arch of not only Alastor, but of so many other characters, is so vast, and so much more than we were able to put into the first book, it makes us excited to keep writing and explore the characters even more. We have so much planned for these characters that it has us chomping at the bit to write what we have in mind for them.
As of right now, we are done with outlining the second (and possibly third) book worth of material and have begun writing the material for it. The number of hours we poured into brainstorming, outlining, and discussing where we wanted to take each and every character for this next story arch is easily twice what we put into Gehenna. So as of now moving forward, we will be working on the writing for the next story arch and I will be trying to do 1 to 2 blog posts per week on varying topics with additional content for those of you who sign up for our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/BryantAndParker. This additional content will be different things ranging from exclusive artwork to unreleased writings from future releases.
Until next time folks.
Cheers,
Bryant
Loved the book can’t wait for the next one !
Thank you! We appreciate the feedback and can’t wait to show you what we have been working on!