Before the story, there was a story...

I began working on the following "epic" 6 years ago. In that time many plot twists, events and characters have crawled out of the shadowy crevacies in my brain. Input from other people tend to lure them out in the open, but since no one will read this but me, it will merely be a place to finally get some of this down in a concrete form, even if the concrete form happens to be non-concrete.

The story is set to be five books in length each book touting a good 500-600 pages each. Whether or not I can meet this quota remains to be seen, but I'll try my hardest.

The story takes place in what starts out as a fantasy setting with cliche magic and dragons. As story progresses, the reader finds out that it is actaully a telling of future earth after the "Apocalypse", more truthfully, two "Apocalypses". Each of the first four books center around a main character (Book 1 -> Char A, Book 2 -> Char B, etc.). These four will the sub-major main characters. In each book, each main character will have four other minor main characters or "party members" (Char A -> Char A1, A2, A3, A4; Char B-> Char B1, B2, etc.). The fifth and final book will be the conclusion containing a "raid" party containing the four previous parties.

If it is not noticed already, the number 5 is a common theme in the books. There will be five books which is the final number. I like five for this because I feel a trilogy is very overused and plain. Six is just two trilogies. Four is an even number, it doesn't feel right. Five is the way to go, a little oddity. The length that four has, but with the conclusion book of an odd number.

[more to come]