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Darwinist:
Not at all, its a three part novella told from two points of view. The protagonist for the opening and the close, and the antagonist for part two. It's written in first person narrative, the antagonist was such a fun character I couldn't resist the urge to write a bit of it from his perspective. To really flesh out why he was who he is.

Both characters are immortal and have a unique collection of elemental based powers that they use. The powers themselves are just a minor part of the story and played into the action subtly so as not to scare off regular background characters. The narrative is driven in the idea of what two people like this would be like after centuries of fighting. I reference a few points in history to support this (revisionist, I know) such as Alexander the Great vs Darius III and the Hatfield v McCoy family feuds in the 1800s.

If any of you have access to the OWG on Kelley's board, I just posted an excerpt of it earlier today.

Darwinist:
lol, just re-read that and realized I didn't tell you much of anything about the story itself.

Basic foundation is that these two immortal beings hold a special connection to the object that made them immortal. After centuries of being hidden from them both, its unearth by some developers. Thus begins a race by both parties to retrieve it before it creates another rival - and to keep it hidden from the other person. First section is the protagonists story from the beginning until a mid-point. Second part is the antagonist covering his POV from the beginning to a spot a little further from the midpoint... with subtle nods to events that happened in the first part that he influenced in one way or another. Last part is the protagonists POV again from the mid-point where we left off until the conclusion.

I like the idea of building a universe for my character, this was mainly just an exercise for me to do that. I created a story with two characters and how they intertwine together. How the events in the one story influence the events in the other and vice versa. I'm hoping to extend that to other books as well. Bit characters, events, or objects showing up in other stories that are completely unrelated... yet so familiar. I like complexity.

belial.1980:
That sounds really interesting. I like the concept of two characters eternally engaged at war. (I wrote a short story with a similar concept back in the day but couldn't flesh it out in a satisfactory way.) The POV switching you're utilizing sounds cool too.

Are you close to finishing the manuscript or are you still in the early stages?

Darwinist:
finished the first act the other day, still needs some rewrites but I was gonna let it stew for a bit first. A couple chapters into the second now.

Darwinist:
I'm bi-polar with the idea of releasing my work. It's sort of the same for any other writer, I suppose. Some people crave the feedback, others abhor it. You either write for all, or realize the rent is due next month. I'm caught in the middle. I love to entertain, but at the same time I fear putting out my creative license for someone to potentially steal. In any event, the knowledge that you're not a failure outweighs the concerns of plagiarism.

So if anyone is curious, here's a link to a rough draft of the first novella, told from the protagonist's point of view. Its the beginning six chapters of the fourteen I wrote. It's not the antagonist POV chapter I mentioned above, that character is scarcely mentioned in the first novella.

http://imposter.weebly.com/super.html

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