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  About The Morcyth Saga

  I'll start out by relating the reasoning behind why I wrote The Morcyth Saga the way I did.
  
  Why did I decide to write The Morcyth Saga? I suppose the main reason was due to the many series which were currently popular at the time. Series that in the beginning grabbed hold of me and wouldn’t let go, but then over time began to lose momentum in a mire of subplots and overlong descriptive paragraphs which I found myself skipping. When I realized I was skipping pages at a time to pass through a subplot that didn't really move the story along to get to the what I would consider the ‘good points’ (action, adventure, actually seeing the main characters) I figured I could do better.
  
  So I set out to write a series in which the reader followed the main character 90% of the time, action or points of interest were in every chapter, and descriptive content was down to a minimum. As a reader I knew I could create my own visualization of surroundings and figured others could to. I mean, do you really need me to go in depth as to what a teenage boy’s room looks like? Doesn't ‘messy boy’s room’ bring up an instant visual? Stuff like that is what I mean. Certainly there are those who prefer grand descriptive content and a myriad of plots that takes a notepad to keep track of. To them I would say The Morcyth Saga is not for you.
  
  As to the story itself, I was a role player decades ago in high school. And I got to thinking about how interesting it would be should a gamer be thrust into a world in which his gaming experiences could help him thrive. After all, if you take a person from our world and thrust them into a world of magic, wouldn't it be helpful to select someone who would be more amenable to the prospect of magic? Perhaps one whose very interests were along those lines? That was how James came into being, a high school senior who loves creating and then running his friends through his creation.
  
  The Morcyth Saga and The Broken Key Trilogy are both written along gaming lines. The Morcyth Saga is about a gamer that is thrust into a world of magic while The Broken Key is written in role playing style.

  Brian S. Pratt started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Ardel R 

  The Morcyth Saga I think was the best series I have read in a long time. I've reread them and still get the buzz and excitement I had the first time I read it. One of the reasons I found this series really exceptional is how you allowed the characters to develop over the first few books to meet the challenges they would later encounter in the latter books, such as James experimentation's.
  
  I must admit I held hope that we may see another saga with James perhaps a few years into the future perhaps with him training a few others as well to battle d-mon Li or some other force. I guess knowing that the star of D-mon Li was still out there with the beacon attached left a slight opening for a different saga.
  
  But I digress. Overall, this is a saga that I am happy to share with everyone and I am happy you avoided all that philosophical 10 page discussions and 5 page description of what the trees and birds look like. Keep up the good work.

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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