This one is going to be a little rough, I think. It’s a concept that’s been rolling in my brain and something that I have wrestled with for some time. Titling it alone was a challenge because I’m not sure what to call the point that I’m at, now. I’ve heard this sort of thing referred to as a spiritual deconstruction, in the past, but I don’t think that really applies here because I’m still a spiritual person.

So, I'm taking a break from reading the works of Pierce Brown for a couple of weeks and will be sprinkling in a review for the movie Dune this week and a review for the game Metroid: Dread, next week. I’ll be back with a review for Iron Gold on December 1st, so keep an eye out for that! This review for Dune is one I’ve wanted to do for a while because I’d like to add my voice to the cacophony. That’s what everyone wants, right? Someone else shouting their opinion? Right? That’s what the people need?

We’re finally here! The session I’ve really been looking forward to… writing copy for your players. Today, we’re going to create something we can give to our players that they can use to build the backstory for their characters. I’m going to talk about the different things I include in this initial handout and I’ll even be giving you access to the handout that I’m creating for you to review. I’m eager to get started, so let’s just dive in!

Today, I want to talk about my writing history. I’ve been writing for several years and I never had a good example of what a writer’s path should look like. It was hard to tell if I was doing everything the right way, though there isn’t really a correct way to go about becoming a writer. This isn’t going to be a post giving advice on becoming a writer or suggestions for how to develop your skills--I’ll release something like that in the future. Instead, I’m just going to talk about the things I did historically as I learned to write and found my voice.

Now we come to the end of the first Red Rising trilogy. This has been quite a ride and I’ve been reading a lot of Pierce Brown. My original plan was to immediately pick up Iron Gold and start with that after all of this, but I think I need a break for a couple of weeks so that I can rest and reflect on this trilogy. That’s a problem for tomorrow, though! Today is the day I review the final book in Pierce Brown’s first trilogy: Morning Star. If you haven’t heard my thoughts on the first two books, they can be summarized as Red Rising being mediocre, but Golden Son being a fun experience. My expectation was that Morning Star would be as good or better than its predecessor, but were my expectations met?

Because we now know what all we want to happen in our arc—or what might happen—we have a lot of work to do to get the setting for our arc fleshed out and expanded. This course is going to be where we take care of that. By the time you've finished with this part of my homebrew campaign creation series, you'll have a solid grasp on the setting of your arc. We've done a lot of world-building so far and we're about halfway done with that, now. Soon, we'll be focusing largely on the stories of our campaign. Bear with me, we're nearly there!