I’m still writing. I guess that is all I have to say. I am working on To Find a Sword really hard and have added some words to the Ynel novel. I’m having a hard time writing fantasy, but then again, I always do. As authors or writers we make choices about what we write. I chose at some point – consciously – to write fantasy, then at some point – subconsciously – to write science fiction. I’ve been writing more science fiction than fantasy ever since.
Ynel will be finished. I’m not going to let it die off. If you have been with me for any long period of time than you know that I was writing a series known as the Urkia Tetralogy (originally the Urkia Quadrilogy) and I canceled work on it. Some people – who I had talked to very thoroughly about this project – got worried about this. I was told that I needed to not stop work on this project because it was so close to some peoples hearts. I sat down and looked at the Urkia Tetralogy and made the tough decision to cancel the Urkia Tetralogy. This was at first because of reasons that were petty, I admit it. But I have made another decision about the Urkia Tetralogy all together because the story is not going to go anywhere. I have taken a long hard look at it and it is not dead, no most definitely not, but the idea behind it is very juvenile. I am at a stage where I can’t write it.
I don’t mean juvenile as in the story would be better for children and I don’t write that. I mean the idea’s behind the Urkia Tetralogy are from a younger time in my life when I was more juvenile. When the only things I thought about in a story were good verses evil. The story and ideas have not mature and I find myself unable to write the story that I have outlined. I can’t write like the young naive person that outlined the story.
This does not mean that Urkia is dead. Since there is not hard copies of the background of Urkia and how things are in that universe I am going to start making some… changes. I know that is an evil word. The nice part right now is there is nothing to be retconned. I want to Urkia to have its own stories and its own fans and all of the things that the Imonoran Empire has, but I think it needs an overhaul in order for that to happen, in order for me to write in it.
After that is done, we will have to complete Fantasy universes in the RB’s Multiverse scenario. Ynel will have its series of books, Urkia will have a book (if not more) and the Imonoran Empire will have… its library.
As far as the Imonoran Empire’s Library is concerned, as I stated up above, I’m working hard on To Find a Sword. Forced War is still being edited and I think I will be shooting for 11-11-11 for it to come out. Everyone keep your fingers crossed about that. I’ve got a few more ideas up my sleeves as well for more Imonoran Empire based novels (including the entire series of Troigan novels). If you are a writer and you want to play around in the Imonoran Empire make sure you e-mail the RB’s Universe (RBsUniverse[at]gmail[dot]com) so that you can receive a copy of the Imonoran Empire Writers’ Bible. I want there to be more authors writing in the Imonoran Empire Universe. The Universe is just so vast and huge that I can’t write all the stories that it holds. We’re talking about thousands of years worth of stories. If you know an author, writer or anything who wants to write in Imonoran Empire make sure you have them get in touch with the RB’s Universe.
If there are any original fans of Federation Space Online I need you to get in touch with me. I have decided to write a book called “Federation Space Online: The Novel” and I need to talk to some of the original players. This I thought would be good so that people of a new “generation” of Imonoran Empire Fans could get familiar with the way the Imonoran Empire (known only as the Empire at the time of F.S.O.) was before the 3030s. Most of my stories now deal with the Empire just before and after the Aldran War where as at that point in my life I was still fleshing at the Empire’s timeline and only had up to the Crondorian Conflict finished. This book will give us a jump back in time to see how the Empire was a decade earlier and how it coped with the idea of its first war.
I have another story of the young Empire in the 2900s that will be podcasted soon when the RB’s Universe Podcast comes off of its mid season break and have more planned for the future. You see how many stories there are and see why I want more authors. With the Imonoran Empire the title of this entry (Standing on the Edge of Eternity) is really true. The stories for the Imonoran Empire could continue on into Eternity never having any end and becoming infinitely more complex as they went. When I made the Imonoran Empire (as most of you know) I was a kid and it was my imaginary universe that went alongside our real one. It was the “Better Universe” the one that I wished I was in.
Later after I was older and more aware of what I was doing I became more aware of the idea of an alternate universe. After reading such great authors as Heinlein and Asimov whose predictions were disproved I decided that I never wanted to write traditional science fiction and promised myself I wouldn’t (a promise which I broke). I didn’t want to predict that something would come about and come to find it disproved or not even come to find it disproved but have it disproved. With the Imonoran Empire because the setting is alternate universe it will never be disproved and can therefore stretch into our universe as far as we can. If you are a writer, author, poet, artist or just someone who loves the Imonoran Empire, please I beg you get in touch with RB’s Universe (that is me really people I’m all there is for RB’s Universe right now) and tell us that. That e-mail address is RBsUniverse@gmail.com (RBsUniverse[at]gmail[dot]com) thank you.
I have started on another project. I’m having a blast doing this project. It is more of a self discovery project than anything else.
That is really all I have to say for this entry.
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