There are very few times when I feel embarrassed to receive a compliment. But whenever someone tells me they start writing or have launched their own story because of The Wandering Inn, I think it is one of the highest forms of praise. I also don’t believe I had much to do with it, but I have known Yootie, a member of the Discord server, for a while. I think they get The Wandering Inn in its many strange, silly, and sometimes wonderful ways, so when they said they were trying their own story, I wished them success.
And now, I am delighted to announce Sunspot, a story about transformation, magic, identity, choice–and pain–is hitting the Topwebfiction’s best stories. It is already on its second arc, and my own beta-readers vouch for its quality and magic! I’ve been wanting to shout out Sunspot for a bit, and let me recommend it to you like this:
It is a vast world on its second arc. From a new author who’s found a story they want to tell. It could be a long journey for anyone who begins now, but you could see it and follow it just like the first people who found The Wandering Inn.
If nothing else, I encourage you to check out Sunspot, and give it an upvote on Topwebfiction, or spread the word because like MelasD’s work, I want anyone who started writing because of The Wandering Inn to find the greatest success. It’s incredibly hard to start writing, let alone online. Exciting, yes, but it’s nerve wracking and personal and hard and so, when I recommend Sunspot, I’m also wishing Yootie the best of luck.
It reminds me of the early days of The Wandering Inn, with adventure and promise for the writer as well as the story. I hope it’s a grand tale in this world and ours.
–pirateaba
Synopsis:
Dalton “Ezzen” Colliot lost his father to the Frozen Flame on the day magic came to Earth, seven years ago. It left him with a scar on his hand and an obsession—but no spark. In spite of this, he has become a leading, if reclusive, expert in magical theory and glyphcraft, in hopes that he might one day make pilgrimage to the Spire and wield the Flame that passed him over the first time. He longs to transcend and become like the Vaetna he idolizes.
But when he finally gets his lucky break in a second close encounter, he finds that the nature of the Flame is so much more murky and twisted than it had seemed in the glyphs, an inexorably transformative force that reshapes its wielders as much as the world, an exercise in pain. As he grapples with this discovery, he finds himself at the heart of an escalating conflict between the forces of this young age of magic: incandescent magical girls, cutting-edge militaries, and cults worshiping fleeting gods, all scrambling for scraps in the Spire’s shadow.
A webserial about pain, transformation, identity, and choice.
