Day 1

First of all, to anyone who finds themselves on this blog: welcome.

I've had a story floating around in my head for some time now, one that a good friend of mine and I first started to contemplate on a windy summers day about 3 years ago in our neighborhood Borders. We had read copious books together, series after series, spending countless hours discussing and dreaming about what possible plot twists our favorite authors could make next. After awhile, even though plots were far from the same, things started to blend together and worlds began to mesh - the stories all followed the traditional fantasy outline of Tolkien. We longed for our own world, and in that longing, in that deep desire to disappear into our own imaginations, Hierarchy was born.

After spending most of my early life hungrily consuming the contents of every major fantasy novel I could get my hands on, I had decided that maybe - just maybe - I could write one of these things myself. Stories based on Arthurian legend, stories revolving around dragons and elves, and even a story about a certain orphan wizard shaped my vivid imagination. As I mentioned earlier, the vast majority of the fantasy novels I read followed the Tolkien template, but there were a few that stood out like a hot piece of steel fresh out of the forge and made a true impact on me - Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series, George R. R. Martin's A song of Ice and Fire, and more recently Steven King's The Dark Tower.

In all honesty, it wasn't until the project seemed to come to a halt that the desire to make it happen truly started to burn within me. As days turned into weeks, and as the weeks began to fly by, I just couldn't take my mind off of the Hierarchy. It sat idle, like a beast lurking in the depths of my subconscious just waiting for an opportunity to attack. I know this makes the idea sound voracious and like some creature from hell, but in a way it was. It just wouldn't, no, COULDN'T leave me alone.

I started to write. Truth be told, the more entrenched in the plot I became, the more fearful I was to write the story. A writers greatest fear is that the story they create, the world that their imagination birthed, will not be as good as it originally seemed. I wrote sporadically, jotting down notes in my classes and occasionally writing a paragraph or two, but nothing truly serious. But I've made my mind up, and this blog is a testament to my decision - it's high time this story got the attention it deserves. This blog is going to be a running diary, a place to test out ideas, scenes, and character development. Mind you, I wont be giving important things away but I do plan on giving readers a taste of what's to come.

This blog will be the map of my journey through the Hierarchy - I hope you all enjoy this adventure as much as I do.