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Genre: Fantasy
About TRtbn21Location: Albuquerque, NM Home Region: Age:25 Favorite novels: The Dragonriders of Pern series, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Chronicles of Narnia, This Present Darkness, The Buried Pyramid, To The Vanishing Point Favorite writers: Anne McCaffrey, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Jane Lindskold Favorite music: I usually can't listen to music while I'm writing; I'm a musician, so my attention ends up on the music instead of what I'm writing. If I do listen to anything during the writing process, it's instrumental and meditative. Non-noveling interests: Music (in all respects), following God, video gaming, archaeology, mythology, Egyptology, paintball, Shaolin kung fu, the military, graduating from UNM, traveling, foreign languages and cultures |
Joined: October 24, 2009 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 3 NaNoWriMo buddies: 0
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Brief Author Bio: I'm 25, a Christian, a music education major at the University of New Mexico, and an aspiring film composer. However, in the midst of the chaos that being a musician is, I often devote time to writing (mainly fiction and poetry). I have way too many interests that I tend to want to spend a degree-worthy amount of time pursuing! The upshot of this is that these things definitely help my writing. I think NaNoWriMo is crazy, and I think I'm crazy for wanting to try it as a student, but hey - it might actually get me to finish something. |
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Synopsis: The Last Fairy Tale (working title)
What begins as a small adventure to satisfy curiosity becomes a race against time and a battle against supernatural forces for an intrepid young Irish woman and a self-styled knight-errant in 16th-century England. An encounter with a strange old man starts Caitlin O'Cavan and Fallon Gware on a quest for a doorway between worlds and the truth of magic - a truth that the pair must bring back to the real world in order to combat the invisible forces that threaten to bring the progress of humanity to a screeching halt. Aided by some familiar figures of bygone legend, Caitlin and Fallon learn what they must to save their world, but when seeming success takes a shocking turn for the worst, they must decide which forces to place their trust in for the ultimate victory: true magic and the powerful Old Ways, or simple faith and love.
Excerpt: The Last Fairy Tale (working title)
The Last Fairy Tale
By Laura Pirard
I am here to tell you a predictable story. At least, it is mostly predictable. If I tell you that it is an adventure set in the time of chivalry and magic, then there are more than likely several elements to it that you will automatically guess. The images and words in your mind will run thusly: knights, wizards, battles, good versus evil, romance, heroes venturing forth on incredible and impossible quests, and the like. Well . . . I tell you that this story has all of those. And you’ve probably heard so many stories like this one by now that you’re prepared for a nap after the first chapter. I wouldn’t blame you. Such stories are nothing new.
This one, however, is true.
The only reason you’re paying any whit of attention now is to scoff, I daresay. I wouldn’t blame you for this, either; I would do the same, were I in your position. Most tales are spun out of pure imagination. Some are created to convey a moral. Others are simply for entertainment. Still others may have actually happened but were exaggerated into something unbelievable as they were passed along. I want to give you this account right now, penned and spoken by the one who lived it, so that doubt may be lessened. This fairy tale is quite typical in some regards, yet unconventional in others.
You see, there is a knight in this tale that lives in an age when there are no more true knights. There is one wizard – the last real wizard – who lives in hiding during a time when magic is feared rather than esteemed. True magic is also shown to be something different than most believe it to be. The battles of this story go unseen and unknown by the people they target, and good and evil play tug-o-war with true magic in a dangerous contest. Love is revealed to be powerful beyond the simple belief that it conquers all. And the quest - my quest – takes me across lands, worlds . . . even times, although that part is simply my guess. My tale also crosses paths with a story that some would call the ultimate legend. Perhaps the most amazing thing about it all is that the world was nearly destroyed, and yet it never would have guessed.
What say you? Will you listen?
Then pray you, sit and turn an ear to me, and let me tell you a story that is familiar . . . yet not.
