Vengeful Progress

Overall it's been a good day. Vengeance of the Ghost is now three chapters and growing. Knaben is still moving along, though I'm still on the second chapter. It was supposed to be a quick set up chapter, but it won't let me do it that way. Too much stuff keeps happening.

So far this month, Shadow of the Ghost has sold 40 kindle copies. Raising the price at the end of the month will probably kill a lot of sales, but I did it as a one month introductory thing and I intend to stick with that plan.

It has been raining here again these last couple days, but it is not my fault. That rain song on the Silk Road CD has not been played in quite some time. I've been listening to Jeff Beck, David Bowie and some early 60s stuff that I like recently. Today, I did play Silk Road (can't do any more damage since it's already raining). My two favorite tracks are the last two on the CD: Eva's Polka (from Finland) and Mozart's Dies Irea. The arrangement for the Mozart composition is awesome. It is best played at maximum volume.

Legacy of Rain

Yesterday, I was into Alice Cooper and writing so the Silk Road CD did not get played. Interesting that it did not rain here yesterday. Today I had some running around to do and since there was not a sign of a cloud in the sky and the Silk Road CD was in the car already, I thought playing it would most likely not produce rain. Well, it's raining here now. Totally freaky.

Legacy of the Ghost is now finished, the writing portion anyway. Onto the editing and the next book of the series, Vengenace. I'm also gonna work on that 'other' story as well. Will write again soon.

New story conquered, sort of, Legacy continues...

After a battle that lasted close to a week or two, the new story has been deligated to keeping up while I try to sleep nights. Sleep is somewhat overrated anyway. At this time, only one chapter remains to be written and Legacy will be finished and ready for the editting sessions.

Samaya suggested I attempt writing both stories at once. I am seriously considering that option when I start Vengeance. The two stories should be easy to keep apart. The new one has only two main characters, one of which is support and guidance. The conflict characters will appear for one or two chapters and then change. At this point, there will be thirteen tasks the main character must complete. Other than that, the only other thing I can say now is that it will not be epic fantasy. As a matter of fact, I have no clue what genre it would fall into.

Vengeance is the completion of the Lord of Chaos trilogy. All the characters (and there are a few) are familiar and only one needs to be fully fleshed out. Simon will grow a lot in the last book. I'm looking forward to delving into the mess I created with Legacy.

While these stories are occupying my mind, I'm reading Ravenshade by C.S. Marks. It's the third installment of her Alterra trilogy and is quite good. I highly recommend the entire series.

Last week, I received the new DVD and CD by the Wiener Sängerknaben: Songs Along the Silk Road and Time. Both are excellent. The DVD tells about the choir and shares the culture, through song, that is found along the Silk Road. It runs just over 2 hours and every minute is worth watching. The CD contains 25 tracks featured in the film. They range from church classics, to ley classics, to folk songs one could hear along the Silk Road. It's interesting that I've listened to it almost constantly for the last five days (excluding today) and every day I've played the CD it rained. I blame the song Sus Xâtin which is an Uzbek rain song. According to the film, it worked in Austria, the Caraco Desert, and the studio where they filmed the song. Apparently, it works in Virginia as well. You can only get the DVD and CD from the shop on the WSK official page:

http://www.wsk.at

It's well worth the acquiring!

More later.

The dimming light at the end of the Legacy tunnel...

Less than two chapters of Legacy to write and I thought I was about home with it. I decided to take my time with these last two chapters because they are so important to the third book. Anyway, to make a long story short, another story has invaded my subconscious mind and haunts me night and day making it very difficult to finish Legacy. I might have to put Legacy on hold and get this other one started. I've never tried writing two stories at the same time, but it looks like that is going to be the way of things.

At least I can work on the editting of Legacy for a while before I have to finish these last two chapters. It should give me the time I need to get this other story (which is WAY different from the Lord of Chaos trilogy) started.

Part 2: WANTED!!!

1998 Austria Viennese Boy Choir 500 Schilling Commemorative Coin.

Also, if anyone knows of any blogs that have WSK concerts available, please let me know.

Later,
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