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Finding this a little late, but hopefully it will provide some motivation.

Author(s): Lissa Loren
Setting/Universe: Campaign Verse is I guess what I'll call it.

This setting started as something based off of a DnD campaign that I played for a few months and evolved into a completely separate animal that's been a little hard for me to tackle.

I have a trilogy planned in the shadows of my brain. I have a prologue book outlined on paper. And I have a first couple of chapters that I hate with a devastating vengeance written in my word processor. I'd been planning everything with a giddy excitement for months, which was perhaps my downfall. The second I started writing, the words in my head started stumbling over each other, eager to be put down and none of them had the fluidity or passion that they did in my mind. I got discouraged and then just stopped writing.

Writing has long been something I've loved doing, and I love this story that's trapped in my head and I want other people to love it someday, too. Hopefully, this kind of structured prompt-based environment will help me develop some of the smaller details and voice problems I've been having in writing the novel itself.

It is a fantasy and I believe I will be focusing strictly on the prologue novel here, which takes place 200 years prior to the meat of the series, during the foundation of the ____ Empire. (No permanent name for it yet.) Andren, the younger son of the deposed King of Rohsfoll, has been a trader for the past 15 years, and the Captain of his own ship for almost as long, when a storm pushes his ship into a dense fog and eventually causes them to run aground. The land they encounter is one not on any cartographer's map, the region marked only by the edges of the wall of fog that never dissipates. With no way to leave, they must simply try to survive.