Oh my, it has been a hot minute since I posted anything here. I am so sorry. I’ve been playing around with other platforms, and between work and the summer heat, I didn’t do as much writing on anything as I’d liked.
Yet I have done some!
I’m back on my writing queue of working on a new story every two weeks and I got a lot of writing done this past few weeks. It felt good to be creating again after taking the summer off, and it was so much easier to do without all that hot sticky weather.
This writing period was broken up between my two web series. My post apocalyptic story Malice and my scifi adventure Scavengers.
So lets get into it.
A little background about Malice. It’s set three hundred years after the events in my zombie plague novel, the Quiet Dead, and revolves around a group of mercenaries who battle creatures that were created during and after the Great Plague. Zombies, revenants, wraiths, vampires, that sort of thing, and I plan to explain how these creatures came into being. Right now the story is told from two POV’s, the main one is from a young man named Aaron, who becomes involved with a band of mercenaries who call themselves Malice. When their leader, a man by the name of Evren Malice, suggests he become a recruit for the group, Aaron decides to give it a try.
It’s just a test, how hard can it be, right?
Let’s just say, it was a little more than a test, and he decided at the end of it, it wasn’t his thing. While he was celebrating with the young man who did become their newest member, they had a visitor who wanted to hire them to go into the QZ quarantine zone. This is a large area of Ontario that encompasses everything from Port hope west to Sarnia and Winsor, and south through the Niagara reason, using the natural rivers as a barrier. There is a small band of missionaries there that he wants the Malice clan to escort out. Evren realizes that they will need a few more people and ask Aaron if he’d be willing to help out. Aaron is unsure, but he wants to do the right thing, so he joins them on this mission.
This is as far as I’ve written and things are going to get interesting on their journey to Port Hope. They have to pass through the enclosed town of the Nee, and through miles of reclaimed forests that include a village that has a small wraith nest, not to mention their stay in Port Hope and crossing the bridge into the QZ and what they find there. I have a rough draft written up to when they arrive at the monastery, but after that, it’s going to be all new words, and I’m so excited to start work on that!
I have 23 parts already posted for free on my Patreon page, and this week I managed to get another six revised and posted. They’re not very long, just over a thousand words each, and it should keep me on my posting schedule for the rest of the year, until my writing schedule comes back around to my web series weeks.
Now for Scavengers.
Scavenger is one of two scifi stories that I have in my writing queue. It’s about a space-junk hauling company run by the Tremaine family who live on a compound on a desolate word on one of the outer arms of the galaxy. They’re far enough out that no one bothers with them, but close enough to civilization that they don’t have to travel a great distance to get supplies. It’s very convenient.
Ben and his crew Tandra a techno (someone who had technology built into their bodies) kind of like the borg, but not so extreme, and Elwood, the best driver in the galaxy, they both have a bit of a past as well which I want to explore. This series originally started out as a script, but it’s never going to be made so I’m turning into a written web series.
If you’ve seen the promo video then you know Ben and his team come across an unconscious woman and care for her. She’s lost her memory and Ben’s father doesn’t think it’s a good idea to just drop her off without any knowledge of who she is. So she works for them as an accountant, because even though she doesn’t’ know who she is, she still has those skills, but it isn’t until they go for supplies from three very paranoid brothers, that things start to get interesting.
I was so into this idea of it being a tv show, that I even wrote out a bible for it. And that’s why each chapter has a name. I have six episodes written out in script, so I have a lot of material to draw from and plan on revising it all into novel format.
I don’t have as much of the story done as I do with Malice, and the first nine parts are all in script form, but I plan on revising them into a novel. I have a good idea of where I want this story to go, and I’m just starting to get into the mystery behind their new employee.
This isn’t a free read like malice, but this story is free to members and it’s free to sign up.
So that’s my writing update. If you’d like to read either of these stories, you can find them at the links below.
Link to Malice: https://www.patreon.com/posts/122491194?collection=105888
Link to Scavengers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/118298944?collection=183410
Darke Conteur 
