I guess I can give the basic plot of the novel,

As of now I've made a couple changes to the plot, added in and changed some character and hopefully made the whole thing stronger. I've been typing up the outline and making it a lot more detailed, so I still haven't really written much of the actual story. I'm ashamed because I wasted the whole summer when I could've been taking care of the outline and now school has started again and I just keep denying my writing attention it needs.

Hey, all.

It's my dream to write novels for a living, though thus far I've only written a few short stories and poems. I'm not published, though some of my writing is on Writing.com. This is my portfolio, here: http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/user_id/ledzep. I have a novel outlined in a notebook and I started typing the actual thing up, but haven't worked on it as much as I'd like. Hopefully I can get a lot done this summer. The novel is in a fantasy setting, and I hope to write in mostly that genre as well as horror.

If I do get published, or maybe I should say when I get published, hehe, I'm not sure if I'll use my real name or not. I know I'll use my first name and middle initial, Christopher M.

I guess I can give the basic plot of the novel, hopefully it hasn't really been done yet and I'm not making a fool of myself. The title is Ancestors' Blood, and it's about an evil lord named Damos Medraut who discovers an unknown magic called the Hidden Arcane. The magic was kept hidden for centuries when a family discovered it, when they realized the immense power behind the Hidden Arcane, they kept it secret. In order to keep it from being found, they wrote it in their bloodline rather than on parchment or in a tome. Damos discovers the current bearer of the Hidden Arcane, a girl named Justinia Sioddonel, and creates an army from creatures called malgogs in order to abduct the girl and use her hidden power.

The malgog army, led by Damos' right-hand lizardman, Kar'as Bral, attack the town Justinia is in. She escapes with the help of the hero, Althane Holm, and two visitors to their town, a bard named Thallion Steed, who is half-elven, and a mysterious fighter named Razul Nightfall. Thallion knows of a ghost city named Nazlamath, a place where no magic can enter. They hope to go there to try and hide from Damos' magic while fleeing from the remnants of malgogs chasing them.

That probably sounds really cliche, but I feel my plans for it are original enough.

A friend on Myspace had the cover art for Dead Beat as his picture and I asked him what it was. He explained that it was a book about a wizard in Chicago, which intriguied me. He didn't know there were books before Dead Beat and Proven Guilty, so he told me to buy those, which I did. Then I found out there were more books, so I waited on reading those two and found Storm Front. Then I saw the commercials for the TV show. I had to catch up on a bunch of R.A. Salvatore books, so I let my brother read Storm Front, and he started picking up the other books I didn't have.

Around the time the show's season ended, I finished reading R.A. Salvatore's Road of the Patriarch, and that's when I started reading Storm Front. Now I'm about 50 pages into Summer Knight. So, I watched the show before I read the books, but I knew of the books first.