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Well... It's got "Green" in the title...

Hi all.

Well, today I shot out another book to a contest

Blockgarten:
Gaam's Green Valley

This little ditty is a very weird fiction work. It was kicked off back in 2015 during a particularly nasty oil change.

Yah, you read that correctly.

Okay, story time: It was early Spring, after the thaws. Probably around the month of March. It was overcast, cold, wet, and my sinuses were closed for business. It was early and there had been very little coffee (like, NONE) in my life at that time, due to fasting for a blood draw. I had settled into a nasty mood for a nasty day.

So I'm sitting in the waiting room with my iPad in hand. To further embrace the moment, I decided to go full-on gloom and doom: I began browsing through Lovecraft works. The browsing took me into the history of the Lovecraft properties (apparently there are three broad definitions of them: those works that H.P. wanted to give to the world to inspire other authors via family, later works owned by Derleth and his crew, and then the various gaming industry folks).

I pulled some ideas from the pre-1926 stuff and began plotting out a story.

Naturally, being me, a story turned into a full-blown plot covered across 5 (very unique) books!

I wrote the first one during a NaNoWriMo, then shelved it. It was too dark. Too depressingly heavy.

However, after being introduced to the Wisconsin Author Project a couple of months ago, I pulled that old clunker out of the file garage and gave it a good going-over. Smoother lines, nicer shiny bits, and the madness of chaos has been neatly organized...

Now it has been submitted.

Write on!
-Dave

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