What's on Pandora: Adiemus, Dawn Dancing| Adiemus III: Dances of Time
What's on the Nightstand: JosephCampbell|Hero with a Thousand Faces
Save the Words Word of the Day: Locupletative (adj) tending to enrich
Amongst the many suggestions to, I finally picked up JosephCampbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. Friends, peers and colleagues suggested I do so after they had started reading the atrociously long and complicated rough draft that is The Last Scion, the first Shadows Saga book. While TLS has religious overtones, it is not a book about the dawning, craft or practice of any one religion. Nor does it explore man's entwined spirit with anything devine. However, it is an epic adventure story, one of heroes, antiheroes and battles amongst good and evil, even with the "good" are just not as "evil" a group as the antagonists. With that being said, and for those who don't know the history of TLS, it is a story that is the compilation of nearly two decades of whimsical writing more based on character study than that of what they are-otherworldly beings touched by the planes beyond this world's realm.
Since reading and nearly finishing Hero with a Thousand Faces, if TLS wasn't nearly two decades worth of time, research and fun writing, I'd scrap it. I don't want to say it is so cliche it is not worth continuing as I can see now that the concept and story line is nothing new.
What I CAN say about it is, it is written differently than what IS similar to the type of stories out there. I can also say I know now I can change this from being a historical literary epic vision to a story more about the characters and their ability to overcome tyrrany in a historical setting and a damned creature learns from humanity.
