Beginnings
Where to start? That's the big question. Sharing something you've created, are creating, is terrifying. In writing, it's impossible not to bear your heart - every character you conjour comes from an undeniably twisted world, the world which exists chewed up and processed through your own perception. The beauty I find in science fiction and fantasy is the creation and imagining of new worlds from the pulpy remains of this one. With these new worlds, new ways of being are born, and from the new ways of being, we learn more, in turn, about the world-which-encompasses-us . Writing has been particularly difficult for me, I've found fragments of thousands of worlds which never saw much light, and across the years I've stopped and started the process of exploring them. What prompted this project is a labour of love by Freehold Games that has repeatedly brought me back to the space of imagination and play when I needed it most - Caves of Qud. Caves of Qud is a world of epic...