Allen G. Bagby

One Reason Why Star Wars Was Great

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on August 7, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with A New Hope, Amazon, Blood & Soul, book, creavite writing, David Gemmell, fantasy fiction, George Lucas, Heroic fantasy, High fantasy, luke skywalker, Star Wars, writer

I’ve totally revamped Out of Oblivion the last 6 months after an epic bazillion words. When I got to the end of the first serious draft I was not happy with the ending. I don’t settle.

Recently I got together with two of my genius friends to discuss the end of Out of Oblivion. I sent them a message on Facebook prior to meeting basically saying the following:

What Makes a Story Great?

Let’s use Luke Skywalker’s “moment” in the finale of Star Wars over the Death Star.… Read more

Well Worth It!

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on May 2, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Alberta, Arches National Park UT, Banff, British Columbia, Canyonlands National Park, Columbia Icefield, Delicate Arch, Devil's Tower, fireworks on the 4th of July., Glacier National Park, Grand Tetons, Kansas City, Lake Louise, Logan's Pass, Mesa Arch, Montana, Mount Rushmore, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, Yellowstone

I hate boring vacation videos. Thus, I suffered great anxiety over squeezing this video down to a gargantuan 19 minutes. I estimate I took about 12 hours video. I originally tried to whittle it down to 4 minutes and one song. But were just too many “moments”. So I worked hard to make it interesting and exciting. I’m a storyteller. So, tried to amp things up as it progresses to the end.

Good friends. Good times.… Read more

A CAUTIONARY NOTE

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on April 11, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Ant killer, Fire Ants, genocide, Kim Jong-un, Metallica, N. Korean, poison

I finally feel 95% normal after committing mass genocide Wednesday afternoon. No regrets. I went to bed at 8PM that evening a bit nauseated with a mild headache. I watched an hour-long documentary about N. Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

The headache intensified and my gut started churning while watching the doc. Since I had no guilt over the mass executions I had committed, I thought it was something I ate that day, but I had eaten the normal stuff.… Read more

Out of Oblivion First Draft Done

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on March 9, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment Tagged with Blood & Soul, Bob Seger, Brandon Sanderson, Brent Weeks, Conservative, creative, creavite writing, David Gemmell, fantasy fiction, George R. R. Martin, Heroic fantasy, High fantasy, J. R. R. Tolkien, Joe Abercrombie, Lord of the Rings, Robert Jordan, writer, writing a book

12308775_10207271787625708_8364153024136053772_n What’s the most important thing a writer can do when writing a book? FINISH!

No matter how rickety the construction, get…it…done! I learned this with Blood & Soul. To me, my struggle was monumental because I put a lot of pressure on myself to write the best book I could write. I labored long, long hours to find the theme, the message, the climax for the first book.

What is the moment of resolution for Out of Oblivion?… Read more

Giving Blood & Soul Away For 5 Days and other news

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on March 5, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

To celebrate Spring Break and provide an epic escape for those inclined, Blood & Soul is FREE on Amazon starting tomorrow at 12:01AM. I will GIVE it away until Thursday at 11:59PM. So, to my friends who’ve read it, SHARE THIS POST on the social network of your choice or forward the

link along to someone who you think would enjoy an epic adventure. THANK YOU!

As many of you know, I have written huge amounts in the Creed of Kings Saga.… Read more

Price Reduction on Blood & Soul and other stuff. :-)

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on February 21, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

All I have to compare is my own experience. Blood & Soul continues to sell a few Blood_&_Soul_Frontcover_FinalAGB books a month with zero promotion and it’s been almost two years since publication. Although I’ve tried to understand why it’s still selling, I’m bewildered and happy about it. I could have promoted it more in the last year but I’ve been working on the next book, Out of Oblivion. At the end of the day (pardon the cliche…and the rhyme) I have to write more.… Read more

Out of Oblivion & A Couple of Recent Blood & Soul Reviews

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on February 15, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Amazon, Blood & Soul, Book Trailer, David Gemmell, fantasy fiction, Heroic fantasy, High fantasy

I’m a few days away from completing the first draft of Out of Oblivion, the next book in the Creed of Kings Saga. I suspect it will take a few more drafts before it goes to my editor, Andrew Doty at Editwright.com. Like Blood & Soul the next book can be read separately.

Thought I’d share a couple of recent reviews of Blood & Soul. To see on Goodreads click here.… Read more

Great Progress

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on December 24, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

Chipping away. After wasting some valuable time, I’ve finally got things in place for writing more. I’ve had big issues with my laptop and time over the last year. My laptop was huge. I loved the big screen. Some of you have seen it. It’s an anchor. It’s powerful. I think it could be used as a weapon. It’s lethal and it’s awesome.

But when I sit down to write at my favorite places it’s like setting up camp.… Read more

The Longest Way is Often the Shortest

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on June 7, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

In other words, I believe that if you rush things, take shortcuts, you only make mistakes or won’t choose the best route thus it slows you down and things get complicated. It’s an old adage – slow and steady wins the race.

I had to back up on the next book in the Creed of Kings Saga. Wow. Such revelations if you plumb the depths of your story. Out of Oblivion is shaping up nicely.… Read more

Redemption

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on May 31, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

Lots of people are asking on a regular basis if I’m writing the next book. YES! I made huge strides during the editing of Blood & Soul on the next book. I wrote the outline to Out of Oblivion. Why write an outline you may ask? Well, I’ve written 5,001, even 10,001 words that got obsoleted by a change in the story. That is why I outline now and will continue to do so in the future.… Read more