'Mana: The Shadows of Destiny' is progressing quite well but through outside influences (such as trying to actually get my house in Dungannon ready to live in by Christmas) it hasn't really grown much in the past month.
In that time I have found myself thinking a lot about my paranormal mystery novel set in the Victorian era, I say 'paranormal' but the general idea was of an adventure with seemingly metaphysical factors in which investigator Jonathon Mainwaring would uncover the actual truth. The idea is to make Jonathon Mainwaring a modern day Allan Quatermain, or more appropriately to make Jonathon Mainwaring an Allan Quatermain for this century, and I am of course referring to the original novels like 'King Solomons Mines' and not the graphic novel or the atrocious film derived from it. Jonathon Mainwaring is at heart an adventurer finding the ordinary in the extraordinary situations that he finds himself in.
Anyone who knows me well enough will know that I generally jump from story to story and back again, so I should point out now that I have not actually left Mana in any way, I just haven't had the time to write. Period. I've just been having ideas for the other story and have noted them duly.
