Character Development

Hello the few, the treasured. It has been about a month, partly because the previously overworked, underpaid laptop I had kicked it on me. Incidently, it was something that caused me a great amount of stress and worry as the original manuscript was stored on it. Suffice it to say, I have revived it from the ashes and am now backing up my work to a separate source.
This time I thought it would behoove me to focus a little on Griffan, our unsung hero. In a small hilly town he spends his days in the fields with fuzzy little sheep-like animals. He is a shepherd of sorts and has a solitary social circle. There is one close friend but that is all. She and he spend much of their free time together roaming the hillside and playing songs. It is difficult sometimes to imagine oneself as a loner or perhaps an outcast growing up unless you actually have felt these things, but Griffan has found peace in his solitude with his friend and his mother. Much of Griffan's character is driven by his relationship with his mother and this longing for closure as to his father's life and death. There is much pressure to be good in everything in order to honor his father's memory and to find the answers to all the riddles left behind in his wake. With each chapter I hope to reveal more layers of not only Griffan but to other characters as well with an intent at creating a bond between the character and you, my readers.
Thank you... more to come.
Adam Perry

Thoughts on the new year

Firstly, I would like to say Happy New Year to all and I thank you for voting so positively to my book at a mere glance into the world I am creating. Writing from the mind and the depths of one's imagination can be a great challenge and one that is dearly welcomed as I charge forward to completion this year. I am working on the geography of this world and even the language of magic, or Asta as it's called. It will be very arduous to create this dialect and keep its consistency throughout but it will be something that the audience can grasp and speak rather easily. I don't intend to delve into the lavishly ornate speech of Tolkien's Elves but something that makes sense.
The basis of the "magic" of the Astarians is simple. Like Yin and Yang everything has an opposite. Fire - Aflama has it's opposite to Water - Amalfa, appropriately named in that the word is actually the reverse of the word for fire. As if fire could be reversed or quenched, water would be it's quencher. The opposite word, in Astarian terms is usually used in defense, but the word for water is in actuality Hydroa and it's opposite word is Aordyh, another word for fire.
This is the ten cent lesson in the basics of Astarian magic and it's expression. The language of the faithful or Istol will be discussed at a later date as well as more words of magic. Thank you again for taking the time to read a bit about The Spirit Seeker.
yours,
Adam Perry