C. S. Thurman

Happy Halloween everyone!

This last month has been crazy with so many ups and downs, but mostly ups. Things have been pretty crazy at work and at home. I don’t have as much free time to write like I had before at work, and I keep seeming to find more projects for me to do or end up taking on. This isn’t a terrible thing, but it does put me in a bind on how much time I have for myself.

Luckily, I still have enough going on to let you all in on how I’m doing (except for the fact that this is coming out a few days late) and hey, it’s my birthday!

Because of how busy I am, I do not have another Muldrix chapter, but I am working on the next one and a revised Chapter 7 as I found it didn’t end the way I was thinking originally. Hopefully by next month I will have much more to share. I also plan to change how I publish those. I am a painfully slow writer and will occasionally find myself in a sprint of writing for a week, a month, or sometimes longer, only to find myself burnt out. I’m not sure if that’s because I push myself to hard, or if life just happens and I can’t find it in me to continue. Either way, that is not what happened this time around.

What I am hoping to do is join those who participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and write a good chunk of the Muldrix series. If I can write about 50,000 words or so, then I will have close to 90,000 words total for everything that I have thus far. Since this is an Epic Fantasy I have no intention of ending the story at that mark, but it would be closer to being half way done instead of still being in the beginning. The other reason I want to write so much in the next month, is so that I can post each chapter on a different time table than what I have been doing.

I get that 1 chapter every other month is not very exciting, so I’m hoping that I’ll be able to really buckle down, and get this story pushed out so that everyone can enjoy it without waiting for years to read the whole thing. It will still take me time to read through and edit it, but I’ll be that much closer to finishing.

However, the main reason I am behind (some of it from being burnt out, the rest is from having this project) is because I have been working on my son’s book more than anything else. It’s not long, but when I’m already pressed for time I find that I can’t get as much done as I want. Besides wanting to write the book, I’ve also decided that I would be the illustrator and add my own artwork into the book for him to enjoy to. Yes, yes. I know that I am crazy to take on this task but hey, I love that boy, and I want to make it one of the most memorable presents he gets this Christmas.

Besides writing for my son I have also been enjoying “The Rings of Power” Amazon show and it’s finale.

Review for “The Rings of Power: Season 1”

I love “The Rings of Power.” I cannot express how much I love this show that it hurts. When I first started the show, I was skeptical. I continually asked myself “how are they going to fit everything into this show?” “Are they really going to do 50 hours?” I thought that they would include everything from the Fall of Númenor to the Making of the Rings of Power. Boy was I wrong.

I’ll try not to give any spoilers away, but I loved that they showed the power hungry side to Galadriel since that was something that Tolkien had mentioned often in his own writings about this Elf maiden who sought to command and lead the Elves. Since of course she doesn’t overcome that aspect of herself until much later (you know, in The Fellowship of the Ring with Frodo offering the One Ring), I enjoyed how they showed that part of her being swayed by Sauron. Everything about this show was fantastic.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I was right there with everyone about Galadriel surviving the Volcanic eruption, or with the ships of Númenor carrying all those men and horses. The math didn’t add up. But the question came down to, am I willing to suspend my disbelief a little more? I understand if for some that question is already too much going into a fantasy story, but for many of us, this is our life long dream fulfilled. I have been wanting to see a movie/story of Sauron since I first watched the movies (around 11-12 years old) and I am finally getting it.

What I can’t get is why more people can’t get behind the show? I understand that it’s not what everyone wants, but Amazon didn’t get the rights to “The Silmarillion” they got them for “The Lord of the Rings” and it’s appendices, which includes a timeline for the Ages of Middle-Earth. They can only mention what is in those pages, and anything else is built around creative license. Plus, if any of you where concerned with how this turned out, just wait until “The Hobbit” becomes public domain in 2032, then we’ll start getting some weird stuff since they can’t make anything similar to how the current Movies look.

For what it is, I love “The Rings of Power” Amazon show, even with all it’s faults. For that, I think it’s even better because it let’s us look at it closer. And, it helps bring in new people into the fan base who will go and read the books and learn to love everything Lord of the Rings as I have been for the last 20 + years of my life. Besides, not every book to movie adaptation goes perfectly, and I expect it never will.