Moon Shadows

History

"Moon Shadows" is the oldest story concept I have. The central premise came to me somewhere between the ages of 16-18 while hanging out with my friend Joe A. I was looking at some of his D&D modules and one depicted a planet baked dry by the sun. I imagined what it would be like if the planet did not rotate and instead the sun sat dead center above a single large mountain cooking the lands around it. The outside world would be unlivable, but maybe there could be something under the mountain. What would that be? How would you reach it?

Since then the mountain and the sun have disappeared, but the secret that would have been discovered beneath the mountain still remains.The idea stayed with me, but when I sat down to write it was invariably to write something else. It wasn't until I had finished revising my first completed manuscript that I returned to this idea. That would have been about 2009 or 2010.

Synopsis

A runaway prince returns to the lands of his heritage in his old age to see what has become of the kingdom and repair the relationships he destroyed when he left. Along the way he meets the herald of a small group of castaways. Befriending the herald his return home becomes an adventure to redeem the castaways, save the kingdom from corruption, and possibly change the fate of the human race forever.

Progress

Shelved

This book technically has a completed manuscript that has never been revised. However, halfway through the story some major premises changed. Instead of going back to correct the first half of the manuscript I continued writing as if the changes were in place. In the end I had two halves of a whole that didn't fit together. I found it difficult to dive back into the story and rewrite the beginning and after several failed attempts to do so I have shelved the project. It is at the point now where I need to re-read the existing manuscript to remember what the changes were and how the beginning of the story is supposed to go.

2013 Goals

1. Locate the completed manuscript. Computer issues and flash drive failures have scattered files across the internet and between work and home. Completed

2. Reread the existing manuscript.

3. Annotate the manuscript with plot changes, foreshadowing, etc. Basically, prepare the manuscript for a 2014 rewrite.

4. Pick an acceptable excerpt for placement on this page.

Excerpt

Coming Soon!