Pre-Pre-orders

Nothing like writing until your eyes refuse to work. I did a rather lot of writing today, largely edits and such to Episode 3 of the Fable Star series (Oh yeah that is up for pre-order https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MWBXMNC ) but also some 'test' writing for some other concepts I am working on.

I have had ideas for a variety of book concepts set inside the, as I like to call it, 'Fableverse'. Though I am having trouble getting certain characters just right. I won't lie I am a white guy, or as I like to call it 'Khaki' or possibly beige, and so I sometimes find it difficult to write characters that are not white guys. I personally like stories, in text or otherwise, that have a large variety of characters of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Primarily because I already know what it is like being me and living my life, and want to know what its like to be anyone else and live their life. Though I now have a new found respect for people who are able to create such varied characters, because let me tell you it is not easy.

What is particularly interesting is if you take into consideration aliens. If you include them among the varied characters list, than most writers are terrible at varied characters because just about all aliens are written like one group of humans or another. Though if they were truly alien then they wouldn't act anything like how a human would act, but they also seem to anyway. And I have to admit that I am guilty of writing aliens to be a bit too human. Although I do still want to write up an alien species that has a built-in top hat and monocle, if nothing else than to write up another species with fingerless gloves and sunglasses to have the end all in inter-species warfare.