As I said above I am writing a short book. The basis of the book is that it is set in a medieval, high fantasy world meaning there are kingdoms, kings, queens, knights, war, death, and epicness. There are four POV characters and the story will end with the beginning of a war. A goal that I have is for one of the messages of the story to be that the reader doesn't need to know what happens during the war, the story can end with out true resolution because war will always have the same outcomes: death, destruction, and rebirth. Those three motifs will be weaved throughout the story, hopefully giving the reader a thorough analysis of them. This book is not promoting pacifism per se; many awful events will happen throughout the story and my main goal is that they raise the question "What is the worst thing in the world?". I don't know the answer to that yet but I'm hoping it will come to me during the process of writing this story. As I mentioned above I really love history, so I will definitely try to incorporate events in the story that parallel events in world history.

Tessa Repsher is a local writer who has published two novels in the mystery genre. Her knowledge about the writing process and story development will be invaluable for my project.

My third mini goal is to have written half of the story. The way I have decided to go about this is by writing two (out of the four POV characters) chapter's in their entirety and then writing the other two POV character's chapters afterwards. I have decided to write the story this way because I have found that focusing on one character at a time helps with the story's continuity and also with the indepth development of each character.