A lot of my overall style is probably influenced by David Eddings, since I used to read his books in rotation in Junior High and High School. Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series is also a heavy influence. I enjoyed the smaller-scale stories, and the sense of moral ambiguity. The hero wins all the time, but you're not always certain that they made the right choice; and neither are they. That appealed to me, since it feels a lot more like actual decisions in real life.
Well I already had to do that once, and am in the (slow) process of maybe doing it with another. I lost the entire manuscript for Battlefields of Blood about a year and a half ago. I mean, the files were still there; they were just corrupted. So I pulled up the old version on Amazon and just typed it all out again, and made countless corrections, additions, and alterations in the process. I completely changed the character of Lueka Haurton, having to rewrite all of her dialogue as a result.
I am also trying to expand The Sword of Vathir - currently a novella - into a full length novel. The problem is just that I like it so much as it is, that nothing I add to it seems to make it better. So it may just end up remaining as it it; but we'll see. I'm open to anything, as long it meets my own nebulous standards.
