So I started working on my fifth story, then I realized I had nothing.

My idea for stories five through eight was to follow the exploits of one character at a time through a war and interrelate all four … somehow. So I started thinking of interesting scenes and ways to correlate and show both sides of the battle, such as a character that betrays his own side because he thinks the opposition’s god is superior, but is then killed for treason against his own people, because, after all, he could turn around and do it again.

I thought about a person on a warship (tentatively called the Omega) that gets destroyed and he has to swim for shore and fight for his life. Perhaps a native is bleeding to death and hands over their baby to a soldier, begging them to take care of it. Perhaps one of the characters sacrifices themselves to give civilians from the other side a chance to escape. Read the rest of this entry »