It all started with a NaNoWriMo. I'm sure many authors today can say that with a reasonable amount of accuracy. Really what it is had more to do with a writing project my mother assigned me during my sophomore year in high-school-homeschool. She'd decided that that year, instead of doing the usual creative writing exercises, all my other classes would be condensed around November, with that entire month freed for my first major story project. The Novel.

I'd written a lot during November that year, but not enough to meet the goal, but I continued writing. 50k words turned into 500k words, and I was just nearing the end of the novel when my hard drive crashed, and I hadn't had an adequate number of backups. The thumbdrive got washed, the backup CD got bubbly, and I was up a creek without a paddle. I'd lost my inspiration, my drive, and my ideas.

Come this last year and another Nano. Well, this time I was nowhere close to 50k, I'm still nowhere close; but that month there was a realization. I can describe. Vivid scenes flow from my fingertips, stories almost write themselves, and on paper I feel they're clunky and too wordy for real description. But the comments started flowing from the few people I was brave enough to show my work to. Friends, and family members alike, loved my story. So now I continue writing, being as vivid as I can, thinking like I would if I were the character.

The result: Dwindling Aether.

Dwindling Aether is my first real foray into long-form writing that I'm as inspired to write as my first project, and I really hope it continues as it has so far, that I can continue to have the inspiration to write as Marcus Telethes thinks, sees, and feels the world around him.

So the tl;dr of it really comes down to: It's been an adventure. One full of loss, rebirth, and inspiration, that I really hope you enjoy. So we'll see. Dwindling Aether will be an ongoing project until the book's conclusion, probably sometime in mid 2013, if I can keep it up. XD