Author: darkstone8

I am a American fantasy writer. I am married to a lovely woman and have four beautiful children.

From the pages of The Darkstone Chronicles (The Power Within)

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I looked up to see my younger sister looking down at me with hate filled eyes pointing a blood stained sword to my neck. The wind gently blew spreading the familiar smell of rotting, burning flesh the byproducts of the on going three-year war we reluctantly found ourselves in. The bodies of warriors from both sides lay scattered over the blood soaked ground, most of them motionless, some straining for their last breath, others calling out for help to anyone around that could stop their pain.

Zoë leaned down flashing me a sinister smile before pulling away and sheathing her sword. She turned her back me as she began to speak. Tears formed in my eyes as her words struck me harder than any weapon could. “So you see my darling sister. You cannot stop what is meant to be. Your armies will all fall soon, and there will be nothing left to stop the darkness. It will come for all our souls. You have dedicated years to stopping the Darkstone Armies, only to be disappointed again and again.” Zoë turned back around to face me. Her soft purple hair swaying in the gentle breeze.

I looked up at her with loving disgust. “It doesn’t have to be this way Zoë. We can fight this Darkness and win if we band together.”

She smiled at me lovingly “Silence my sweet dear sister. There is no more time for such pathetic dreams. You must face what is truly ahead. You tried to destroy the Darkstone with no success. Now it is my turn to capture and harness its power shaping reality into what ever I choose. I will be a God. I will do as I please, and create what I want. And of course I will destroy as my will sees fit.” Zoë’s eyes twinkled with victory even though victory was not yet hers. “It will be a hard road to capture such a power, a

power that can twist and fold reality to anyone’s will. My sister, I love you.” Zoë’s words came out cold to me and I had not the strength to fight back. Nor the will.

“As do I Zoë. Please come with me. Don’t let the darkness consume you. You can fight it. Please Zoë, we are all that is left from our royal bloodline.” Zoë kneeled beside me and began to weep. I reached up stroking her matted hair aside from her eyes. “We can do this my sister. We will win.” The tears streamed down both of our faces.

Without any warning the tears stopped and turned to a bursts of air escaping from the overpowering flow of blood filling my lungs. Zoë sunk her jewel incrusted dagger deeper into my chest making sure there was no mistake that I would not survive this attack.

My body began to convulse straining, fighting for another breath. Fighting with every bit of strength I had left to survive. Zoë removed her dagger standing quickly watching me as I fell onto my back. She watched as I struggled to keep away the darkness that had started to overpower me.

“My darling darling sister, it’s a pity that you won’t be able to share this with me. I do truly love you.” Her voice seemed to come at me from a distance. My eyes rested on her as she towered above me.

“My lady, the battle is won. Your sister’s forces have started their retreat. What is your order?” Zoë’s generals kneeled before her awaiting her next command. Smiling with blood lust in her eyes she gave her merciless orders.

“Hunt them down and tell them their beloved leader is dead. If they wish to live they will pledge their allegiance to me. If they refuse… cut their heads off and leave them on display for all to see that this is their fate if they don’t follow under my rule.”

“Yes my lady, but what shall we do about our wounded?” Zoë turned around gazing down into my eyes.

“I have no use for them. Kill them and torch their bodies. I want to smell the burning of their flesh as their souls go to hell. Leave my sister to rot, let the worms and the beast have her body.” Zoe’s generals obeyed her orders as she walked away to set in motion another part of her plan that would bring her closer to harnessing the power of the Darkstone.

I’m Back

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Okay, so I went on vacation and didn’t write one word. I do feel really bad about that, but it was very relaxing. On my time off I found out that my favorite author, Anne Rice, put out a new book called The Wolf Gift. I haven’t started it yet, but as far as I know it’s about werewolves . Pretty excited to pick it up and start reading. I’ll let you know how it reads very soon. More to come!

Arainia Darkstone

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This is about the main character of The Darkstone Chronicles. Her name is Arainia Darkstone. Her age is 19 and she is from the planet Dromadu (Planet of Dreams). She comes from a royal bloodline but was raised to be a warrior. Her skills range from hand to hand combat to being a weapons specialist. Her dream in life is bring peace to her world, and sit by the side of her younger sister Zoe.
She loves to read about other planets and civilizations. Her war experience mostly came from the war with The Dark Armies. In the future she wishes to have children and teach them about the glory of their bloodline and how honor and love flowed from her parents making their kingdom one of the best monarchs around. I will be writing more about Arainia and other characters from my novels very soon.

More to come

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So my screenplay has been going along okay. It’s weird writing something for the first time and not know if you’re doing it right. I looked a lot of other screenplays to get a foundation on how to write them. They are all written differently so I decided to just dive in and do it. It looks good and it helps to have the software to write it. I have change a couple things from the book, but you can’t put everything in. Still pretty fun to write and learn from my mistakes like in all my writing. I definitely will not do the editing seeing how that is the weakest part of my writing world. I plan on posting a few pages in the near future to see what people think. More to come!

How it works for me

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I started drawing and writing comic books with my best friend when I was just a kid. As I grew older I found that I love the part of writing stories more then drawing them. So when I start my books, I go back to my archives and grab my main characters and a plot to build on. It makes it a lot easier for me to get started that way. The main character for my first book was created back in 1987. Her name is Arainia and she was one of the first female characters I created. So I made her beautiful with a soft look to her, and made her as hardcore as the male characters I created. It’s important in my books to have strong female characters like that. It makes writing the story more exciting for me. Anyways, I actually started writing in my head before I even sit down in front of my computer. I tend to lay out the basics for a couple of chapters in my head and fill in the blanks later. I never read any of the books on how to write novels. I just adapted my way and it seems to work. I tried putting everything in outlines before I write, but it seems to take all the fun out of it for me. I want my writing experience to fun, not work. I have to feel the flow. I want the creation of the story to be in the back of my mind always. I am actually taking a small break from writing book II of The Darkstone Chronicles to blog. I find this blogging a good way to get my flow on. It helps a lot and I apologize if it seems like I rabble at times. Just the way my mind works.

Okay, so I started doing my two book writing thing again. My wife can’t believe I can do that, but they are totally two different stories with different characters so it’s actually pretty easy for me. They are almost neck and neck, so I figure if I write some here and there, they might just get done at the same time. That would be pretty awesome. When I start writing on a book I haven’t messed with for so long, I have to read the last two chapters to figure out what’s going on in the story. But as soon as I do that, I remember everything. It also helps that I make log of every character, planet, craft and war that I write about. I’m really excited about the two books, but almost feel compelled to start on the other three also. LOL. That’s not going to happen. I would have creative overload and go into some sort of writers block. Happened before.

My mind is in a constant state of writing. About time. My novels are appearing in my dreams which is awesome for me. I like that it plays out in my head like a movie. I’m trying to think of more ideas to promote my books, like making magnets or giving away prints of some of the art. I’m going to start posting art from The Darkstone Chronicles very soon. I really would like a larger following, and I am adding more people here and there. I believe having a blog has helped me some. I am going try and blog atleast once a day with quotes and parts from my books. As I said before, you can get my first novel at Amazon.com. It’s called The Darkstone Chronicles.

When I write I like to listen to music. It helps me keep focus. I listen to Radiohead, Travis and Palo Alto. Really pushes me and gives me inspiration here and there. Another genre I use sometimes is Classical. That helps with getting into my characters heads. If my one of my books ever became a movie I would love to have their music in the soundtrack.

To all Writers

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I love writing. I love the fact that I can make up characters and worlds and make up stories about them. I’m new to blogging, and I would like to reach out to other writers out there to come and have discussions about the art of writing. I’m very interested to hear your ideas and about how you got started, what books you read and how you are getting your projects out there. As always.. Happy Writing!

My favorite writer is Anne Rice. I love her description in every book. She is really good with painting a picture with her words. She’s the one that inspired me to write a book. She has really great advice on how to publish and deal with agents. What books are you reading? I love to try out new authors but don’t know where to start.

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