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!
Friday, September 6, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
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...
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...
Saturday, July 7, 2012
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
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
Sunday, March 25, 2012
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!
Friday, September 23, 2011
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
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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.
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.
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