Inspiration

What inspired me to write a book? For that answer we have to go back quite a few years. I have always loved fantasy and sci-fi, at about the age of twelve I used to visit my cousin’s house and we would play war hammer role-playing for endless hours. My cousin is an exceptional Games master with a talent for describing places and people. He is also gifted at being able to create a story that is fun, realistic and one that you cant help but immerse yourself in. The way he would describe a battle made you feel like you had actually made the move, his description would allow you to envision the scene as though you were there. This embedded in me the hunger I have for all fantasy things, I think it also shaped me in the way I create any characters I play in role playing games both on the computer or in book games like war hammer.
After playing War hammer for many years I came into the world on computers and role-playing games like Baldur’s gate. I love these games as developing a character is easy and you don’t lose dice each time you throw them. This is all lovely I hear someone shout, but what has it got to do with writing? Well its this love of fantasy that lead me to read The Hobbit and in time The lord of the rings. Nice enough books but I found the reading labouring and sometimes down right boring. It was by chance on holiday at the age of nineteen that I had nothing to do one rainy day that my father-in-law lent me one of his books by David Gemmell. I think it was Winter Warriors. The book was great the characters well developed making the book a compelling read. It was about this time that I bought a book from a second hand shop as well, the book was Guardians Of The West by David Eddings. This too I found exciting and now one of my many favourite books. Upon my return from holiday I went to my local library and emptied their stock of Eddings books, though not the ones with Leigh Eddings on. After reading through them I went and emptied the library of the many Gemmell books. Years past and I grew older, I got married and had children. Then About two years ago I decided to re-read the books by Eddings and Gemmell. Inspiration! I couldn’t believe it, I felt like my head was going to explode with the ideas that came to me. That is in short what inspired me to start writing a book, what I shall put in the following postings is more about the ideas I had, where I got my character names from and how I perceive the world I have created along with it many inhabitants both humanoid and animal.