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<p>My name is Jaq.</p> <p>I am not the Chosen One.</p> <p>Unless you mean the one chosen by my sister for murder when we were ten? My sister, who now heads the mystic cult I ran away from with a million dollars of their money in my pocket when I was fifteen?</p> <p>In a world where superheroes are real, if you aren't bulletproof and able to leap over a tall building in a single bound, keeping your head down is the smart play. Unless, of course, a mystic cult with a million good reasons to be interested in your whereabouts rolls into town, or you manage to get on the blacklist of a psychotic villain, or you annoy a rageful chaos god not known for having a forgiving nature. Might be time for a new strategy.</p> <p>*** Note To Readers:</p> <p>When I was a kid, Dr. Strange the Sorcerer Supreme was one of my favorite Marvel comics. So when I heard they were making a movie of it I was really excited.</p> <p>When I finally got around to seeing the film I realized that over the years my tastes changed. It was a vaguely okay film but it was something I'd seen before. Batman Begins and Dr. Strange might as well have been the same movie.</p> <p>I realized that the two things I really loved about Dr. Strange were the world building, the outsider perspective he has being a mystic practitioner in a universe full of mutants, power armor, Inhumans, and enhanced beings, aaaaaaaand nothing else.</p> <p>The character was too easy; he was rich, his powers were very conveniently OP, he had a nice crib in New York City, and he didn't really have any personal problems.</p> <p>After reading many Brandon Sanderson books where he pays a lot of attention to the magic system and making sure that the powers are interesting in a way that enhances the story, plus having read a lot of urban fantasy while being bored with how generic those worlds are these days, I decided that I wanted to take a crack at it.</p> <p>This is an urban fantasy set in a hero world where I had a lot of fun doing extensive world-building that I will do my best not to dump on you like pigeons after they've eaten a bad meal.</p> <p>I wrote about fifty thousand words and then started posting chapters here because it allowed me to use the free Grammarly program to correct it as well as give me the incentive of finishing it. Putting it on here and getting feedback on it from all types of people has really worked for me and if you do end up reading this I hope you give me the benefit of your opinion on the world, what worked for you and what didn't.</p> <p>This is the first draft after having outlined the story and the characters extensively so it is very much a work in progress. I think I have become a better writer while working on this but I still welcome any critiques and spelling errors that you might catch. See you in the comments!</p>
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