Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Help Me Cure My Writer's Block

So I have been a bad boy lately. My first novel I wrote a couple years ago, "Coobo the Superhero", was a great learning experience. I eventually plan on going back to it, fixing it up and giving it the proper launch it deserves. But since then, I have written a second one that is completely different starring a brand new character called Ruby Rogue. I finished it a while ago and it's sitting somewhere on my hard drive just waiting to be edited and released to the people.

Lately, I've kind of stepped away from my writing for various reasons. Now I am ready to jump back in and get back out there and reconnect with the writing world. But there is one problem. I can't get my writing groove back. The typing mojo is gone :(. But I am fighting my way out of it.

To get back into writing shape I am going to write a weekly chapter of the prequel to the Ruby Rogue novel. But the only thing I know right now about the prequel is how it starts and how it will end. Everything else in between is a mystery to me. That is where you come in.

Week to week I am going to be asking for different prompts and ideas from you and will be incorporating my favourite reader generated ideas into each chapter. Also there will be a kind of "Choose Your Own Adventure" element to it where the readers will vote on what the characters should do next or do later or some other aspect that I should be starting in the third chapter. Hopefully, with your help, we will make an amazing prequel to this novel.
Anyways, for any of the go getter artistic types. I am going to be needing a cover page for each chapter. As you can see by the cover of the first chapter, I my artistic abilities are extremely limting. So if this story inspires you artistically in anyway, feel free to let me know and I can post some of your original work for the prequel as the cover page for the week's chapter.

So this blog is all about feedback. Let me know what you think. And visit the blog often as I will be posting about other fantasy news, random ideas, my other writing exploits, and also will have a Game of Thrones review when that show gets going again (can't wait for that!!).

So here is the first installment of the Ruby Rogue Prequel. I hope you enjoy it and come back for more.

***You can also download it in read it on your mobile devices. Just click the download link in the SCRIBD toolbar below the chapter. Pretty sweet stuff eh?***
Ruby Rogue Prequel - Chapter 1