Thoughts

Once again I’m thinking about ways to get more people interested in what I write. I know people visit this site, because I can view the stats, but barely any of them ever comment or even make use of the buttons I set up in an attempt to make things easier. Knowing that people do visit is a comfort. It means that I have readers even if they don’t want to get involved more than that. I just know that I started writing this way so people could be more involved if they wanted to be and I would really love to have more people collecting credits, as having people ask me for stories makes me want to write more. I also have my prompts page which hasn’t been used yet.

I don’t know what more I can do, really. I am still waiting for a reply from the Web Fiction Guide, so if the World Walkers collection is accepted I’ll get the rest ready to be added. I plan on sending out some submissions. I just feel like I’m missing something. Part of that may be not having any ebooks ready for sale, because I’m hoping they’ll gain me some interest, even though I’m not selling via any of the known places. If things were easier for International authors I would, but the IRS make things difficult. (Anyone who thinks of some way around this problem will be smothered with more stories than they could possibly read.) Other than that… I just can’t think of anything else.

I’m more than grateful for everyone who is reading and getting involved, because I never thought I’d get one reader. Until I started posting my writing nothing was ever good enough, so I ended up with hundreds of drafts of one chapter and nothing more. Now I’m writing and sending out the first drafts, because I know people like what I write, even if there are occasionally typos. Doing that is making me happier than keeping everything hidden away, thinking that I could never be published.

However I would love to know what more people think when they read my stories. I can add more buttons, although I’m not going to put anything critical on them, and I’d really like having more people click the write more buttons. That does make me want to write more. Is there some way I can make it easy for people to comment, even if it is just to say a couple of words? Can I make it easier for people to ask for the stories they want to read? Let me know your ideas and I’ll do my best to implement them.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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40. Races of the Web

The fae, when creating the many races of the web, were often more interested in the different magics they could give each of them and so many were based on the human race. In part this was because many of the fae who had survived the end of the magic on their old world could be seen as the lesser fae, because they were more humanoid. Only a few of the greater fae, the less humanoid, managed to survive. Some had a part in making sure that there were at least a few races that were based on those who had lost their lives. No one is quite sure why, although some believe that the greater fae needed more magic in order to simply survive, while others think it is due to the stronger connection the greater fae had to their old world.

As the world creators worked together with the race creators, and there was often several of them working on each world, some worlds were created specifically for the races that were going to live there while others were created in order to test the races who would be placed on that world. Everything they did was an experiment, because most of them didn’t care much about who they were creating or what would happen to them later on. It wasn’t because the fae are uncaring in general, but the Yellow family is still seen as the least caring of the thirteen families, more interested in what they can do with their magic than anything else. Some of the Yellows really are like that. Others did care about what they were doing, but they were entirely sure that what they were doing was the only option.

Due to their lack of understanding the fae’s experiments could easily have gone very wrong. Almost all of the races were given some form of magic, often based on a magic the fae knew of, although they were just as experimental as everything else they did, and this could have ended everything. Instead they got lucky. They had landed on a world with some understanding of what needed to be done and it worked on making sure that those things were done, along with its newly created child worlds. Unfortunately the fae don’t know this, so they believe that everything they did worked, apart from those things they know for certain went wrong (like the doors leading to Taithmarin, Kankirin, and Aerith).

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

41. The Hidden Places

The hidden places were both created by the fae and by the magic they used to create the new worlds. Almost every world has at least one hidden place, some of which were created in order to allow the fae to experiment more and others by the magic so that those viewed as dangerous or were in trouble could find somewhere safe. Unfortunately, or fortunately for some, these places can only by those with the ability to walk through doors, whether that ability is natural or not, although there are a few that are totally cut off from the web almost all the time.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

Web Fiction Guide

After checking the Guide today I have found that the World Walkers collection has been approved. View the listing here.

I’m so happy. I think I’ll get to work on the other collections as soon as possible.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

Web Fiction Guide

The World Walkers collection has been accepted. View the listing here.

I'll be working on the other collections soon.

42. The Doors

Every door is a little different, even the doors created by the fae. Some are permanent; some move; some are transient; some will take you to different places depending on the day of the week or the phase of the moon; some will take you back in time; some will take you forward in time; and some… well, a magical door can pretty much take you anywhere. There are people, normally demons, who know what each door will do, but none of this information is written down, even though most of the doors cannot be used by the walkers.

The permanent doors created by the fae have beautiful stone frames around them, as a symbol of their existence. Each is guarded by at least one gargoyle, although these gargoyles aren’t the same as the ones you’d see on Earth. All of the gargoyles have a stone shape and a human shape. It is due to the gargoyles that demons can have trouble travelling through the doors the walkers use, but they are some who are happy to let a demon use one of their doors.

None of the other doors have a physical symbol. They are purely magical, so if you don’t know they’re there and you don’t have the ability to walk through them without a tattoo then they’ll have no affect on you. Often walkers come across these doors but have no idea. It may be possible to create tattoos for these doors, if someone with the right magical ability knew they existed, but it would be a difficult thing to do.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.