Magicka

The title of this blog is also the title of the story I'm currently working on.

One of my first blog posts was about how I took Creative Writing a couple of years ago, which helped in my decision to becoming a writer due to the story's success. I hope to transform this "story" into a novel someday. I first started writing Magicka in that class, and chose to continue working on it after the school year was over. I made little progress on the story and even abandoned it for about a year, but I am now rewriting it from scratch. I could have used some of my old writings to save time, but after reading them, I realized that I have become a much better writer. I still need to become even better, but I have definitely improved since Sophomore year.

I am currently three pages into first chapter, which amazes me. I have always found the beginning to be the hardest when writing anything, so the fact that I am slowly making progress is fantastic.

I'm usually not a list-type of guy, but I want to make a couple of bullet points about my goals for this novel. In all honesty, this is more for my benefit. I think it would be interesting to post this, and then look back on it near the end of the year. I have to write 40 pages of Magicka by the end of the year for Advanced Creative Writing, so I hope to accomplish these in that given time.

Goals

• To create unique, dynamic characters who are also identifiable.
• This will be one of my greatest challenges. This story is fantasy fiction with magic (if you couldn't tell by the title. Oh, and no, the title has more significance than that), so it will be somewhat difficult to make the characters relate-able.
• To make everything understandable.
• I have two main points going against me in this aspect. First, I am the writer. As the writer, anything I type will be perfectly understandable to me. The problem I will have is making it understandable to everyone. Not only that, but I'm trying to write a fantasy fiction story, so my descriptions will be more outlandish simply because of its creative nature. I don't want only a certain group to like my novel. I want anyone to be able to pick it up, start reading, and then scream for more.
• Redefine magic.
• This is nothing like Harry Potter. Don't get me wrong, I love the series as well, I just feel as though the word "magic" is automatically tied to Harry Potter nowadays. It will remain one of my all-time favorite series, but I want my story to redefine what "magic" really means.

I thought I had more originally, but those are the only three that I'm really focusing on as of now. I will probably make a note at the end of my future posts to update on my progress, which will be a nice way for me to see how much work I got done for a certain week. I hope to write at least one hour a night on Magicka alone, so that'll be a good start.

Also, here is a drawing of Rel, one of the five main characters. I could describe him and his personality, but where is the fun in that? For those of you who want to comment, try and guess! If you don't want to, then I suppose you don't have to, although I highly suggest it. All the cool kids told me they're going to do it, so you probably should too. No pressure.

(I did not draw this, just for clarification.)

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