Huzzah! Chapter 2!

Good tidings, one and all. Just updated Noble Monsters with Chapter 2!

Chapter 1 of Noble Monsters!

Hey all, just updated Noble Monsters with Chapter 1!

Return to our regularly scheduled programming! Here comes Noble Monsters!

Hello everyone! After years of honing my craft at writing fanfiction, I'm finally ready to return to my more normal projects. I've re-purposed Cain and Lucifer, and it's now called Noble Monsters. It's a low-fantasy, dark (borderline horror...) series, set in contemporary times. So far only the prologue is finished. It features several main PoV characters, and will be three books at minimum, but probably more.

This is definitely a story for mature readers. A hard R if it were a film. So people more familiar with my YA fanfiction... you've been warned!

Year 4 Comments

Hello all, making a new page for Year 4 for comments. Keep things a bit more compartmentalized and organized for everyone :). Well we're moving right along now, aren't we!? You all realize that by the time Chapter 8 comes out, we'll be 1/5 of the way through Year 4?!

Adventures of Harriet Potter discussion forum

Hello all! As my travel opportunities haven't proven as fruitful as I'd like, I'm again re-purposing the blog back to my writing. So from here on it is to serve as the sort of comment space for my writings on fanfiction.net because it's easier for me to correspond with readers here than it is there.

For those who don't know, Adventures of Harriet Potter is a re-imagining of the Harry Potter books from the perspective of Harry being a girl. This is not an entire gender-swap, it focuses pretty exclusively on Harry in that regard (and Ron to keep the best-friend dynamic going). It also expands much further into the wizarding world than original canon went. As of this point I have rewritten the first book (added to by 34k words), and the second book (which ended up being more than doubled in length, from 85141 words in canon to 175497 words). I'm currently about 3/4 of the way through the third book, and already it's surpassed canon length by 25k words. So for anyone who doesn't have the link, here's the links books!

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955849/1/The-Adventures-of-Harriet-Potter-Year-1
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955917/1/The-Adventures-of-Harriet-Potter-Year-2
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9489540/1/The-Adventures-of-Harriet-Potter-Year-3

Please don't be afraid to pop back here and comment after reading! I LOVE discussing with readers!

Repurposing of Blog

Salutations all!

Just stopping by to say check out my repurposed blog http://ayoungmanscommonsense.blogspot.ie/ to catalog my new life in Ireland :).

And when I say "new home," I mean it. I've blended in pretty well here so far!

Long Time No See and a Major Announcement

Hello all! Sorry for being so absent for so long, just stopping in to say that after a year of working on my practice project of "The Adventures of Harriet Potter," I have polished up my skills enough to where I feel confident working on my own original writing again. I have a project in mind and am hammering out the details. If anyone out there has any publishing advice, words of wisdom, etc, please feel free to give it!

The project will be a series of books in the young-adult genre. I'm definitely not ready to make an announcement yet as to plotlines and such until I am sure of what my rights are... don't want to "give someone else" the same idea and have them jump on it before I can actually carry it out, after all...

A return, "The Adventures of Harriet Potter," and a defense of fan-fictions

Well, been a while since I did much of well, anything, here on old Blogger.  I have good reason.  Recently, some friends approached me with a proposition. "How would the Harry Potter series have gone differently had the protagonist been female instead of male?" Being a historian by hobby and most interested in subjects like sociology, this was too tempting a project to take on.  I also started doing more research into it as well, and frankly was rather saddened by what I saw.  The article that struck me the most being "The adventures of Harriet Potter would never have done as well as Harry Potter." This pretty much instantly set off my chauvinism detector and it finally put me completely over the edge to actually sit down and write the reimagined world of Harriet Potter.

So, for most of the past year or so, I have been piecing together just how such things would happen. Fortunately, my friends had already done a great deal of the leg work surrounding characters and even numerous new characters as well. So it is simply my job to create a coherent, enjoyable story out of it all.

I know, it usually goes entirely against my principles as a writer to do these sorts of projects. However, my own brother described it to me in a way that killed off all my scruples. He described to me that what I would be doing would be essentially like being a cover band. You play more or less your own version of other peoples' songs to get noticed for your talents. So essentially... yes, that's what fan-fiction writing is. Unfortunately, not many take it nearly seriously enough for it to be taken very seriously by anyone. Unless you know the right place to look...


And so, I've been primarily working on the site deviantArt.com where I have now posted six new chapters of my newest project "The Adventures of Harriet Potter: Year One." Yes, I picked "The Adventures of Harriet Potter" specifically after reading that article. And so I'd like to ask you all to please, take the time to stop by, have a look and enjoy a magical world through brand new eye all over again with "The Adventures of Harriet Potter: Year One - Chapter 1 - The Violinist"


http://the-mind-of-kleinnak.deviantart.com/gallery/37892096#/d52kjxf

New Venue

Hey ya'll, just a little stop in to tell you all about my new DA page I've made for my works.  The website it http://the-mind-of-kleinnak.deviantart.com/, please stop by and check it out!

Another update to The First Brother

Salutations!  An odd greeting for me being arachnophobic, but I tolerate cartoon spiders.  Announcing the next big set of updates to The First Brother.  Hit the link here or right above this and check it out! http://kleinnak.blogspot.com/p/first-brother.html

Well that was quick!  Announcing the first updates to The First Brother, added most of a new chapter and about another 1,500 words from before.  Did a bit of updating and editing in the earlier chapters too.  Catch it here, or click the link above! http://kleinnak.blogspot.com/p/first-brother.html

The First Brother

Hey all!  Announcing my newest project, The First Brother.  This is a fairly drastic change thematically from my other two projects, though I admit that at this point I'm probably going to drop Cain and Lucifer at this point.  I like the start, but I really have no idea where I'm going to go with it from here.

Thematically, The First Brother gets much of its inspiration from both the classic westerns and Japanese Anime and Manga.  Its plot follows Ichiro Itano (or more correctly Itano Ichiro, if you put the family name first).  Ichiro is given up by his parents at the age of ten with ten other boys to be trained to serve as the body-guard/assassin to a mob boss.  However, Ichiro soon learns that his leader is no ordinary mobster, and his service will soon test him in ways he never imagined.

Cain and Lucifer

Hello everyone!  Just writing to post the first part of my new sort of "webnovel", Cain and Lucifer.  I'm hoping to be able to post a chapter or so a week, give or take, and you at home get to follow along as it's written.  Don't you feel special!  Anyway, I won't give any spoilers or anything away right now, just read and I hope you enjoy the mystery as it unfolds!

The German in "Beginning" and a call for translators.

As an advisory notice:
Yes, I'm fully aware that the German being spoken in "Beginning" is most likely rubbish.  It's been far too long since I took German in high school so I had to rely on less than reliable methods of translation.  I intend to do the dialogue in the native languages of all countries involved.  Nothing bugs me more than people speaking languages in books/films/television/etc that they would not normally be speaking.  That being said, I'm now announcing a call for translators.  I'll need German obviously, but in the future I will need Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Greek, Italian, French, Czech and Slovakian.  I may not need all these as sometimes the nature of stories doesn't require dialogue (as in pt. 2 of "Beginning" and pt. 1 of "Letters") but if anyone can offer assistance in these languages in the future, or knows anyone who would be willing to offer said assistance, I would be most grateful.  Thank you in advance.

- Nathan

Story Update Again

Newly updated the story, including a title change, something perhaps a bit less hokey.  It's now called Conflict, and includes the short story Beginning.  I have also included "History" sections on each chapter that explains the background a bit of what's going on in the main stories both historically and what was involved in the writing of the story.  You can read it if you haven't found it yet by clicking "Conflict" right above this post.  Cheers!

Story Update

Just updated "Snapshots" (I know, woohoo right? Only been a whole half hour!) Well just couldn't stand letting a product sit on the shelf without letting it out there for the audience enjoy.

New Launch

Hello one and all, and welcome to the Mind of Kleinnak, my sort of sounding board for my works of fiction (short stories, etc) and where I hope to begin to launch my "web-novel" in the near future.  Please visit and enjoy, the first piece that's up is "Letters" under the page "Snapshots", which I hope to compile into a collection of short stories in the near future as well.