Hey everyone!

As very few of you probably know, I am actually a big writer. I love doing a lot of writing about fantasy sorts of stories, and have had a lot of ideas inspired by my two favorite authors. (Tolkein who wrote Lord of the Rings, and C.S. Lewis who wrote Narnia.) One thing that always amazed me about their stories, is that they created entire worlds. They made up history, locations, history for said locations, and even more beyond that. Sometimes even entire languages. This has always been a mind-blowing concept for me, and as of last summer I began researching it.

Since last summer I began work on a novel series labeled "The Ytrialum Records"

This series was inspired by Tolkein and C.S. Lewis (and to some extent various anime/manga) and revolved around a world I created called "Ytrialum" (pronounced it-try-uh-lum) I slowly began work on this world's history and how it worked, including the creation of a system of magic, and a basic history and thesis on where the world came from and how it's creation went about. (And faintly delving into a much deeper concept I'll expand on in a moment.)

This evolved into the first novel, called The Ytrialum Records: Keepers. (Classic fantasy novel name as I discovered after I finished it, noticing three other books in my school library with the name "keepers") I tried sending it to one publisher, who rejected it. Fair enough. I'm an amateur author and I doubted my book or books would ever reach bookshelves anyways.

However my true talent I think lies in my creation of ideas, concepts, and yes, worlds.

The Ytrialum world is very vast, and although the map admittedly isn't very big, the other features of the world that I have developed (and some not listed on the visible map.) make up it's complexity.

Recently, I began to develop an idea for the creator of the world. (Think of him sort of like God, Aslan, something along those lines.) A concept came to mind when I made plans for the final book. This concept evolved into something larger when I wrote a short-story, involving a conversation between the main enemy of Keepers, and the creator of Ytrialum, titled "The Tyrant and the Angel."

This concept, was as follows. The creator of Ytrialum is not God, however he could have gained his powers because of a previous life before he created Ytrialum. It's pretty far fetch'd, but I personally am finding it great fun to work on it. As this has developed I discovered something...

In order for the creator of Ytrialum to have a prior back story, there must be another world that he lived on himself. This world, has earned itself the name of Bylitta. (by-lee-tuh)

I only recently began work on this, and what I'm going to be doing over the next couple blog entries is post my progress as I create a new world (almost) from scratch. This world will be different than the first one. Big time.

I know most of you people aren't that interested in reading a 16 year old highschool students ramblings of his concept and ideas, but I figure some people may be interested in it. If you guys like Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth I think you may find this interesting.

I'll also be drawing some pictures and concept art for a few things as well, so I'll be posting those with it when they come available.

So with that, I shall begin writing and story-boarding for this new world.

Here's a list of how I'll likely split the blog.

• Entry One: System of Nature & World Itself - What is the norm? (This'll be large)
  
• => How fantasy driven is it?
  
• => Does it involve magic?
  
• => Does it involve mythological/made up creatures?
  
• => How was the world created?
  
• Entry Two: Geography & Time Periods - Location, advancement, etc.
  
• => What sort of locations does the world involve?
  
• ===> Natural geography?
  
• ===> Settlements and cities?
  
• => Time Period?
  
• ===> Is the world locked in an eternal time period? (E.g. Like Middle Earth)
  
• ===> What Time Period?
  
• Entry Three: Races, Civilizations and Culture(s) - How do people live?
  
• => Are there different kinds of people?
  
• ===> What differences?
  
• => Civilizations?
  
• ===> Who gets along with who?
  
• ===> How are they different from each other?
  
• => Culture?
  
• ===> Clothing?
  
• ===> Buildings and architecture?
  
• ===> Preferences?
  
• ===> Religion?
  
• ===> Language?
  
• Entry Four: History
  
• => BUCKING HISTORY
  
• Entry Five: Wrap Up
  

So there you have it. Big plans.

I'll be going over this stuff for a little while before posting it online. Brainstorming and such will be frequent.

I'd appreciate it if you guys could leave opinions to let me know if this even interests any of you.

See you all soon! (Or not so soon!)