Book

I started writing a book, and I’m super excited about it.  It’s pretty ambitious for a first book, but I’m going to attempt it anyway.  So far, I’ve only written first drafts of the prologue and some of the first chapter, but I have all of the major plot points thought out and charted.

The plot centers around six wizards, one white, one green, one purple, one blue, one yellow, one red.  My concept is that there has been one wizard of each of these colors since the beginning of time, and every time one of them dies, a new one is born that takes the last one’s place.   The only way for one of the wizards to die is for them to use all of their magic which is measured by how long their beard is.  Every time they use some of their magic, their beard shortens a certain amount based on how much magic the act required.  It will grow back but only as quickly as a regular person’s beard would in real life.  They, of course, have plenty of time to wait for this because they can live to be centuries old.

When the plot begins, the reader is first introduced to Ulk, a giant ogre who absorbs energy from the sun and is incredibly strong and in the middle of destroying a village.  As he does this, an army approaches.  Ulk begins fighting the army effortlessly because of how powerful he is.  The army keeps him distracted as four of the wizards, Sylfaen the White, Rockwell the Purple, Garamond the Green, and Bauhaus the Blue, all use their magic together to create an enormous disc in the sky that blocks out the sun over the valley in which Ulk is destroying the village.  Suddenly, Ulk is vulnerable to the attacks the men are attermpting.  This enrages him and causes him to go into a frenzy, killing soldiers left and right.  This gives time for the wizards to cast another spell, putting the ogre to sleep.

This puts an end to Ulk’s reign of destruction.  The wizards walk toward the slumbering beast.  Sylfaen the White, the oldest and most powerful of the four wizards present tells the others that have done well, but Garamond the Green disagrees.  He is enraged that Sylfaen allowed Ulk to take so many lives for so long when they could have stopped him far earlier if Sylfaen had called them together to do so.  Bauhaus the Blue tries to tell Garamond that he should accept that Sylfaen, being their leader of sorts, is very knowledgeable and most likely had a reason for allowing Ulk to exist for as long as he did.  Garamond is beyond the point of reason, however, and teleports away leaving behind a cloud of green smoke.

Sylfaen says farewell to Rockwell and Bauhaus and teleports away to the place he believes Garamond most likely went, Mazakala, a neutral city in the middle of the continent where the wizards meet to discuss the state of the world and also where wizards are raised from birth and eventually trained by the other wizards.  When he appears here, a nurse who takes care of Calibri the Yellow runs to him and tells him that Garamond grabbed Calibri and disappeared again without a word.  This leads Sylfaen to the next place he is sure that Garamond must have gone, Riobe, the domain of Malgun the Red, the sixth wizard who isolated himself from the others long ago and rules his domain wickedly.

Sylfaen stands before Malgun’s giant red clay tower and calls up to him.  Malgun confirms what Sylfaen feared, that Garamond brought Calibri to Malgun and died in the process due to how little magic he had left from the enormous task he’d performed.  Sylfaen knows that he is not powerful enough to retrieve Calibri and does not even know where Malgun has him hidden away, so he leaves because there is nothing he can do.

The plot thus far is contained entirely within the prologue, and the first chapter picks up a century later when Calibri and Castellar, the next incarnation of the green wizard, are both roughly 100 years old.  I won’t reveal anymore about my book at this time, but I am extraordinarily excited about it and can’t wait to write it.

Author: Jackson Palmer

Jackson Palmer is a student studying literature at the Mississippi School of the Arts. He hopes to use the education he obtains there to write novels, short stories, poetry, and scripts for movies, television, and theater productions. Additionally, he would like to write within a number of genres such as comedy, drama, horror, etc. Some of his favorite writers and influences include Billy Joel, John Steinbeck, and Dan Harmon. He hopes to explore concepts and systems of thought such as existentialism, nihilism, and fulfillment within his writing. He would like to thank you visiting his blog and hopefully reading his work. View all posts by Jackson Palmer