An Introduction To Steve Francesco

An Introduction To Steve Francesco

Steve Francesco is a man of large build, at about six foot two and rather stocky you'd want to think twice about a bar fight with this one. Steve grew up in the city and was bullied somewhat at school, his grades were relatively low but that was a mistake that wouldn't hold him back. He's smart and ambitious, but most of all cunning, and when you wrap those traits up with resentment and anger, you can get an incredibly dangerous mix.

It wasn't long before Steve realised that the city wasn't his playground and he did some odd jobs, earning what he could before departing for the countryside towns, where he'd reside for several years, making connections and doing what he could to impregnate his presence on the communities that were around him. He'd become well known and he found with popularity came the ability to earn more money. One day, a man approached him about some work that wasn't strictly speaking legal, and the businessman within kicked into gear, realising he could profit from leasing people out to work, acting as an agency. This is where a fair amount of his money would be made.

As his popularity grew, so did his following, so more people signed up as protection for hire. Most of this came in the form of night club work or bar doormen, but the larger jobs were in the cities. The business that was growing brought him some attention that was unwanted, and he moved houses several times in a few years.

Steve had acquired everything he'd always wanted, except for two things. A wife and revenge on those who'd bullied him in school. The revenge came a little later, but the wife came much sooner than he'd thought, when one Louise Raina rolled into town.

An Introduction to Lawrence Murray and Louise Francesco

An Introduction To Lawrence Murray and Louise Francesco

I want to take this time to give a brief break down as to what this book's actually about, because the more I mention it on social media sites and to friends/co workers, the more the question "what's it about" pops up. I understand that and have been happy to answer such questions mainly, but there's been one problem. I've not actually vocalised or written out a synopses for the book yet, because I've not needed one before; therefore, I'm unable to describe it well enough. So, I figured I'd come out and write a piece about the background of the story and give you an introduction to one of the character's I'm starting to love.

Lawrence Murray is a man in his mid twenties who for many years has been a thief, jumping from place to place on the globe every so often to make his way in the world as best as he can. He does this because the idea of a nine to five in an office makes the lining in his stomach spin, and he's able to move around as he pleases, taking what he needs to survive and live in the open air. On the odd occasion he'll stay at a small hotel for a while and get to know some locals, then he'll get bored, take his fill of goods and move on.

You may ask, how doesn't he get caught? Lawrence is good with disguises and creates different characters depending on his situation, so his identity is hidden when he's in public, and then he performs his work at night so he's relatively out of sight. For a couple of years he was alone in his journeys, until one day he came across a girl of similar age, called Louise Raina, who was attracted to the somewhat cocky attitude Lawrence set forward. There was an instant connection between the two, and Louise shared the ideology of a life in the open air and decided to join Lawrence on his travels, where the two would work together and become relatively skilled in their art. Over the coming years they'd bond closer and closer, when an untimely argument splits them apart and Louise is lured in by the charms of another man.

Lawrence is forced to move on without her, even though mistakes had been admitted by Louise and she begged him to stay, but things got incredible complicated and Lawrence moved on, even if it was against his will. For five years he roamed England, drowning himself in remorse and anger, digging himself into a deeper and deeper state of depression. We pick our story up when he decides he's going to go back for Louise and see just what's up and whether or not she even remembers him. The story follows their attempt to free Louise from a tyrant of a husband, who's abusive and vile to her but well connected in some dangerous industries. There will be violence, there will be risks, there will be thievery and there will be some unexpected twists in their plan.

That, is the basis of my story and I'm getting more and more emotionally connected to it the more I write it; and I strongly believe that there are people who would enjoy it when it's finished. The text above shouldn't give anything away that's in the book essentially, it's a backstory and a catching up let's say to bring you up to speed.

Feel free to share this post around to anyone you think might be interested in this kind of story, so they can then dial themselves into my twitter or whatever for when it eventually gets published. I'm looking into a couple of different publishing methods and I can say now when it's done it will be available to buy somewhere, so keep your eyes peeled. I want to be one of the first gaming YouTubers to be a published "author". ;)

Cheers,

-Rue

Digging Deeper

Digging Deeper - 14/11/2013

We are nearing the last month in the year and in the games media scene it starts getting busier just after the summer, and throws itself into action all throughout the rest of the year, so I'm busier than ever at this stage and haven't been writing as much as I've been thinking about writing. I'm trying to not let it slip off of my radar too much though, as I'm at a more crucial point now.

It's hard for me to come out and say just how much of the book has been written as a fraction, or as a percentage because I seriously don't know how long it's going to be. I know where roughly where I want it to end, what happens near the middle and all that, I just need to figure out how I'm going to get there. What I'm currently writing is likely to sit about a third of the way through, and it's a big chapter, the first chapter I've come across that's required some serious thought. I think the reason for this is that the rest of the chapters are lying down some ground rules for the characters, and showing you a little bit about who they are and what their stories are to some extent, and this next part of the book is the first time where they all start intertwining in such a pretty big way. There's a couple of plots running at the moment and I don't want there to be another one, because I feel having two plots currently twisting around each other like rope is deep enough.

As the chatper is more demanding than the last few, it requires me to use my head even more, thinking of creative ways to play the scenes out and getting it to a stage where there's no massive holes in it, and it'll probably take a bit of time. So when I'm writing I want to have a clear head and not be constantly thinking of something else, or have a distraction near by meaning I can only sit down for half an hour. Up till this point the rest of what I have has been written in a fair few, two to three hour sessions and I'd like to keep it that way.

I also keep reminding myself that this isn't a job, and it isn't work, this is for my enjoyment and there's no reason to rush it. So keeping that in mind I continue to keep digging deeper and letting the creative juices flow. We're virtually hitting winter now so I'll have an excuse to stay inside.

-Rue

Words Are Emotions

Words Are Emotion

As I've started getting deeper and deeper into this book, I've started connecting with the characters a lot more, thinking up back stories for them and personal traits that they carry from situation to situation. Key points in the plot have now been laid out and I think I'm about ready to get stuck into the real meat and potatoes of the novel.

Before I started writing this section of the novel though, I wanted to step back and take a look at what I had already written, and what I read back left me in a state of shock, because I saw it from a completely different perspective. As I was reading certain aspects of the book, the plot and the characters within it started popping out at me, showing me the aspects of my life that are just littered all throughout the darned thing, and what scared me most is that I didn't even notice it as I was writing it.

I don't think by any stretch of the imagination that it harms the book, if anything I think it enhances it because of connection between the characters I'm writing about and myself. Even if some of the parts aren't a direct link to something I've felt in the last five, six or seven years I can see loose connections to it, and it surprised me because it just... Shone through.

Knowing that this is happening makes me feel good, to be honest because it must mean I'm getting into what I'm writing, and putting some passion behind what's being put onto the page. I hear so often "you can't take any meaning from words on a page, especially places like facebook and twitter, there's just no human emotion going into what's being said." For a long time I believed it, but maybe I've reached something that might change my mind, because for once I've looked at written words from a different perspective; instead of just words they're words written by someone who has feelings, and everyone feels differently, so everything that's written is emotional? I don't know. It was just something that came to mind and I figured I'd write an entry about it, as I haven't done one of these for a few days.

Book's coming along great, really enjoying it and I'm about to get properly stuck into it with one of the main chapters.

-Rue