It's all Happening!

Being the first post, I figured I'd start with an overview of what The Wolf Saga is and what I'm planning on doing with the blog.

First of all, The Wolf Saga is a series of eight stories that I'm writing. Here are the titles:

1. Seven Days
   
2. Aftermath
3. I Love NYC
4. The Rookie
   
5. The Project
   
6. Revelation
   
7. Triumvirate
   
8. The Eighth Day

The Wolf Saga is basically the story of David Martin, whose nickname is Wolf. The Saga spans around 30-40 years and follows from the time he is a young man to great heights. I don't want to ruin it for anyone, so I won't delve into any details. The basic idea is that Wolf is writing these stories as he heading home from a great war and looking back on his life and the world left. The prologue to Seven Days really spells that out a bit, but I'm not quite ready to tackle that part yet.

I have been working the Saga for a long time (about 15 years, since high school) off and on... mostly off though until recently. A few years back, I knew the time for planning and organizing this was over and I needed to just start writing it. Up until then, I had a lot of information mapped out and summary versions written of the entire saga. (If there is any interest, I can post that as well, if you don't mind knowing what's coming up.) Also, a few years back (after finishing the summary versions) I had the idea for an alternate version to Seven Days and started writing it but hit a block of sorts. Not that I lost the desire to write, I just got to a point in the story where I needed to have an idea who/what the protagonist was actually (I had a vague idea up to then) and nothing came to me. So, last fall, I decided to work on another part and picked part 3. Then at the beginning of March, I picked it up again with a new impetus and have been doing really well since then.

So, what's with the blog?

With the blog, I'd like accomplish a few things. First of all, the main focus is to share my writing with more people and have a formalized, central way of doing that. Secondly, by promising an update of some sort it keeps me writing. My goal is to have an update every Thursday. Since documents can't be posted on blogs, so I found a site that hosts documents and I'll link to it.

A few ideas for future posts (but my focus is going to be the stories):

• The story/explanation of how I cam up with the entire saga (it is rather interesting).
  
• The process I'm going through in writing this. Thoughts and ideas I've had and such. This is where questions and comments from you, the reader, come in. A friend was reading it and asked about a certain aspect that I hadn't addressed or just glazed over. So, I thought about it and included it in the story.
  
• More about me and my interests/hobbies/etc.
  

So, without further ado, here's the link to the first 3 chapters of I Love NYC:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13891694/I-Love-NYC

(I was planning on just starting with 2, but including the 3rd provided a better break point.) Currently, I'm working on chapter 9, so I'll be updating 2 chapters a week until its caught up. The blog posts I make will also let you know what was updated like if its a new chapter or an update/addition to an existing one. If you like what you read, please pass it on to friends and family. (A later post I'll make will get into NYC a little further and why I'm doing it first.)