The Silent Wall, take two
I'm trying my hand at NaNoWriMo again this year, almost as usual should I say. Big surprise, huh.
In the past few weeks, I've been slowly but steadily working on a 'reboot' of my Eien world. I had worked on Oreason / Oraison d'Être in 2007, but technically that one is more a prequel of sorts; the main bulk of the story is still the one involving both continents. So this time, I gave a good scrubbing up to The Silent Wall, got rid of some nasty plot holes, and I'm going to work on it come November. Most if not all this 'book 1' will be devoted to Varsa, to be honest, to Project Heimdall, and to the ethically challenging conflict between the Watchers and the Waisen. It had always been my intention to make the Watchers a state police employing mostly telepaths; so I decided, why the hell should that be secret? Let's have it in the open, and let's have the rogue telepaths (the Waisen) a bit more foorthcoming (read: terrorists).
Ren and Kittin are still here. Ren's definitely... different. :p Also I've added Emmerich, who's a wee shite in his own right, and he and Ren are going to be... interesting to write about.
Hey, I even drew a cover (featuring Varsa's army of airships and the Heimdall itself), and came up with a synopsis!
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The Silent Wall - Cover by Yzabel on DeviantArt
For the past century, the Varsan Empire has been steadily annexing its neighbouring countries, but the greatest conquest of all still eludes it: what lies behind the Silent Wall, that strange, impassable barrier of storms and electromagnetic phenomena that rends the world in two?
At Mirochilov's State Weapons Factory, Ren Ackermann whiles away the days, bored out of his wits in a job that doesn't offer him any challenge anymore, yet afraid of getting noticed-he still remembers the day the Thought Watch caught his father for thinking the wrong political opinions. However, when the Air Force starts recruiting technicians to work on the mysterious Project Heimdall, and his supervisor suggests his name, he decides to seize this opportunity for a change. Yet life on the Aschen base is not exactly what he's signed for: why are there so many accidents, and why does he feel like someone's constantly watching him?
Mechanic on board the Albatross, Kittin Wattinger has a gut feeling that her career is already over: insubordination and a botched mission in faraway Ius have relegated the whole crew to military backwaters, and there's little chance of them proving their worth again-or not? For the Air Force needs a crew competent enough to fly the newly built Heimdall... competent, and very expendable, in case something goes seriously wrong.
Meanwhile, in Stetz, young Watcher Emmerich Ziegler prepares himself to move to the capital for his first field assignation-and he has all reasons to be proud of himself, for isn't he a Class 10 agent, the highest potential, thanks not only to his abilities to read thoughts, but also to bend matter to his will? Only the field is much trickier than what he thought, as he discovers for himself when his path crosses that of a particularly vicious and elusive group of rogue telepaths.
If you want to follow my antics on the NaNo website, too, this year's novel is here.
In the past few weeks, I've been slowly but steadily working on a 'reboot' of my Eien world. I had worked on Oreason / Oraison d'Être in 2007, but technically that one is more a prequel of sorts; the main bulk of the story is still the one involving both continents. So this time, I gave a good scrubbing up to The Silent Wall, got rid of some nasty plot holes, and I'm going to work on it come November. Most if not all this 'book 1' will be devoted to Varsa, to be honest, to Project Heimdall, and to the ethically challenging conflict between the Watchers and the Waisen. It had always been my intention to make the Watchers a state police employing mostly telepaths; so I decided, why the hell should that be secret? Let's have it in the open, and let's have the rogue telepaths (the Waisen) a bit more foorthcoming (read: terrorists).
Ren and Kittin are still here. Ren's definitely... different. :p Also I've added Emmerich, who's a wee shite in his own right, and he and Ren are going to be... interesting to write about.
Hey, I even drew a cover (featuring Varsa's army of airships and the Heimdall itself), and came up with a synopsis!
The Silent Wall - Cover by Yzabel on DeviantArt
For the past century, the Varsan Empire has been steadily annexing its neighbouring countries, but the greatest conquest of all still eludes it: what lies behind the Silent Wall, that strange, impassable barrier of storms and electromagnetic phenomena that rends the world in two?
At Mirochilov's State Weapons Factory, Ren Ackermann whiles away the days, bored out of his wits in a job that doesn't offer him any challenge anymore, yet afraid of getting noticed-he still remembers the day the Thought Watch caught his father for thinking the wrong political opinions. However, when the Air Force starts recruiting technicians to work on the mysterious Project Heimdall, and his supervisor suggests his name, he decides to seize this opportunity for a change. Yet life on the Aschen base is not exactly what he's signed for: why are there so many accidents, and why does he feel like someone's constantly watching him?
Mechanic on board the Albatross, Kittin Wattinger has a gut feeling that her career is already over: insubordination and a botched mission in faraway Ius have relegated the whole crew to military backwaters, and there's little chance of them proving their worth again-or not? For the Air Force needs a crew competent enough to fly the newly built Heimdall... competent, and very expendable, in case something goes seriously wrong.
Meanwhile, in Stetz, young Watcher Emmerich Ziegler prepares himself to move to the capital for his first field assignation-and he has all reasons to be proud of himself, for isn't he a Class 10 agent, the highest potential, thanks not only to his abilities to read thoughts, but also to bend matter to his will? Only the field is much trickier than what he thought, as he discovers for himself when his path crosses that of a particularly vicious and elusive group of rogue telepaths.
If you want to follow my antics on the NaNo website, too, this year's novel is here.