So, my website name is The Shadows of Chaos. To put it simply, it is the name of my Magnum Opus, the series I am aiming to complete.
It is a Fantasy series with Sci-fi elements, depending on which part of the story is being told. I can’t get too deep yet but I did want to put a snippet here for the name and why my site is called such.
Some fun little facts, initially it was going to be a trilogy set on one world. I wanted to use the duality of Light and Shadow in a fun way. The story would be comprised of two main parts, one with a focus on the concept of Justice and Light while the second would be a more nuanced flavor. Twilight, that moment between the light of day and the dark of night, represented a core idea in my mind and so the title was to be The Shadows of Twilight.
Unfortunately, when I decided to start thinking about it more, the Twilight trilogy came out and ruined Twilight as a book title for a that time frame (yes, I’ve been thinking about writing a book series for a very long time). A silly reason but one that stuck. The theme changed from Light and Shadow, very obvious Good and Evil symbols, to Creation and Destruction and the force that would govern both, Chaos.It will be a
Everything is born from the primordial Chaos and everything is eventually broken down by the same Chaos. Unlike Light and Shadow, creation isn’t immediately associated with Good and Destruction isn’t entirely associated with Evil. This better fit both modern story telling methods and themes as well as provided a more interesting thought process on how I might approach creating the series. With this new perspective, idea grew and the scope grew. I went from one world to many and more characters decided to jump into the fray. It will be an interesting road to writing this series. A lot of the base things are set in my mind already. The bones are ready.
As such, with the scope expanded, here I am the Shadows of Chaos project on my list of things to do before I die.
Before then, I will be working on other things to sharpen my writing skills. The first series I will be looking at writing is a traditional Fantasy called the Light of the Moon Project for now. I hope to start working on that series in earnest over the next few months. I am planning for one or two Young Adult level books of medium length for now but we will see how the story evolves.