#Because a half-orc named Mike The Masculine who´s main goal in life is to have sex with everything.... That´s a bit too silly

[chaos-storm]

I´ve been working on two books for 3-5 years now, and both of them have been hard to write for different reasons. 

The first book - The Prequel, is a book about entering an abusive relationship and how destructive traumatic experiences are. It´s also about how traumatic it can be to force gender/gender roles onto someone who doesn´t identify as that gender.  (Which is hard to write because it´s difficult to handle such heavy topics right) 

The second book- The Sequel is about overcoming trauma and finding solace and strength in the friends and relations you make over time.

Both books are based on one of my DND characters - Terra, and the second book partially takes place in some of the sessions we´ve played through during the campaigns. 

When I first started writing the sequel, I originally tried to stay as confined to the canon dnd sessions it was based on. However, I eventually realized that I can treat this entire story as an ever so slight AU to the canon and that opened the doors wide open for me to make a great book without being confined to anything

#Basically I realized that first off I´m no longer in contact with the DM who´s word we were playing in so I can do whatever I want #with the characters he originally made #and since the majority of the players who were there for the context probably won´t even read the book #So my main focus should be to write whatever makes a good book/story - regardless of the established canon #Though some things I always knew I would leave out of the book #Like Mike The Masculine helping Terra and Thorowal kill Laurous (The main villain in my book) #Because a half-orc named Mike The Masculine who´s main goal in life is to have sex with everything.... That´s a bit too silly #I can´t write that into my book about overcoming the trauma of abuse and finding strength and family with the friends you make #life