31 January 2013

Including horses, pets and mentioned once or dead characters
307 individual various characters
80% based on friends and family the other 20% made up from my imagination.
104 humans (includes sorceress and wizards) some have been changed into something else.
28 different races and 8 human based.
38 subplot stories happening at once
2 main plot storylines interacting with the 38 at various points in the story.
15 types of creature or animal thought up or crossbred as an attempt to not be similar to warcraft or lord of the rings or harry potter, or dragonheart or reign of fire, how to train your dragon, warhammer, skyrim, age of dragons, jurassic park, hobgoblins, gremlins, sex and the city, superman 3, the entire series of trueblood, game of thrones, 50 shades of grey, supernatural and avatar.
12 love stories
7 revenge stories
5 comedic characters with some others being a little comedic when the mood fits.
6 good friends being or have been main bad guys in the story.
9 people that pissed me off so i put them in the book to kill them.
15 subplot stories inspired by a real life thing that happened to the person the character is based on.
6 characters based on friends that have died in the last few years (Nancy otoole, Slayer gustafson, Myka Steerpike, Bernablunt, Kat Klata and 2BBchris Diker) 2nd book dedicated to Nancy.
And to think this started as a 50 page short story that would only have a couple of friends in it. now turning into a 6 novels long action/adventure/fantasy/war/horror/rhyming/love story