
A lot of people have been asking me about my book. What is called? What is it about? How long is it? How long have you been working on it? Are any of your characters based off of anyone you know? So I am going to answer as many questions as I can in this post.
1) My book is called Shaken Forever- Banner of the Lord's Army. It is part one of two books. The second will be called Shaken Forever- For the Righteous' Sake.
2) It is about Captain Moroni. I have fictionalized his personal life as well as his famous battles and such. I have created new characters and used real historic figures such as Helaman, Pahoran, Lehi, Teancum, etc.
3) You can keep track of my progress in the length of the book by looking at the right side of the blog.
4) I have been working on this since January 2, 2010. I had a writer's block for 1 1/2 months though (Feb-March).
5) Yes, many of my characters have at least one characteristic from someone I know.
Bradley Meyer-- Captain Moroni-- because he is very open with his opinions on how he feels about the government
Shaelyn Eggers--Helaman's wife-- she is spunky, but very sweet
Mark Lindsey-- Helaman-- because he is quiet, but really smart
Afton Meyer-- Ammoron (Do not take this personally. He is not really a bad guy yet. Just confused by his brother)-- because he is very attracted to the opposite gender and acts like a professional when it comes to them. (not because Afton is a bad guy)
Taylor Lawerence-- Moroni's wife-- I mostly based the character's physical appearance off of Taylor (except the character has blue eyes)
Any other questions? Feel free to ask.
Awesome! Is my character Gadianton?
ReplyDeleteGadianton does not appear in this story. Sorry :) But you did have some inspiration on Moroni's mother-in-law
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! Can't wait to read it. If you want a proof reader or anything, I'd be willing to help out.
ReplyDeleteI was looking at your progress. About how many words per page? How many pages do you expect it to be?
Derek
Derek: The average page has about 300-400 words. I am not sure how many pages it will be, but I'm hoping for around 8-90,000 words.
ReplyDeletekels, you are awesome!! you are so talented in ways I couldn't even hope to be! good luck on the remaining writings! can't wait to read it!
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