There was something missing in my WIP, The Lost Children of Gaia. I really didn’t know what it was at first. See the story is told from three POVs. The first character is Nathan, the hero (for lack of a better word) and the second is Beka (the heroine if you will.) The last is Providence who gets to live the climax of the book. Nathan kicks off the book with a lot of action and plot driven stuff. Beka shows up in the middle of the book where the slower character development is happening. (Those who have read it would argue that the current Beka section isn’t slow and bowls right along.) Regardless there is a time gap between the plot lines that I thought worked well. That just shows why I shouldn’t think.  Beka is the POV character but amazingly enough Krin, her wife, is the actual focus of that portion of the book. Too some this would be a problem. Did I pick the wrong POV character? Not at all. In fact, Krin is crucial to the development of both Nathan and Beka. So what was missing? Easy, that chunk of time between the transition from Nathan to Beka. In that time gap is ALL of Krin’s character development.  It is in that gap that Nathan first understands the situation he is in as told by Krin. It is in that gap that Beka is taught by Krin that not everything in the world is as simple as it seems. So I’m going to split the difference, tack a little onto the end of Nathan’s  third of the book and tack a little onto the beginning of Beka’s third. It’s going to add about 12k words but they are essential and I can’t believe I skipped them in the first place!

Some of you will find your way here with the Web map I left at Spaceraven.blogspot.com. Others will find your way here through chance. Some random search will lock onto some phrase in this blog and then you’ll be here. Welcome.

You’ll find a little bit of everthing here.  Mostly, the purpose of the blog is to provide news about my writing and disucuss elements of genre theory. You’ll also find  some of the inner workings of life, the universe and everything at least as it pertains to my world.

The title, “From A Barbarous Land,” is Edgar Allan Poe’s way of describing the lands from which the crippled dwarf “Hop-Frog” came. As many know, I find “Hop-Frog” to be one of Poe’s masterpieces. The title also means something different to me but that will have to wait until I have more time.

So… look around. Not much here at the moment.