This is a blog that concentrates on the influences and writing of two aspiring author friends called Thadeus Morticaine and Dan Coghlan. They have been friends for many years and found that they have a common interest in what they write, even though they write different things.

Thadeus Morticaine is working on a series of Folk horror stories, fantasy stories, some ghost stories and some sci-fi. He likes HP Lovecraft, Gareth L Powell, Robert Rankin and Kim Newman. He is also very much into his folktales and Celtic and Norse myths and legends.

Dan Coghlan is currently working on a Sword and Sorcery series about a Wood Elf Barbarian, and also a pulp fiction style series of Post-Apocalyptic stories. He likes Robert E Howard and Steve Dilks, as well as Lin Carter and Clarke Ashton Smith.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

 Hello everyone!

Yesterday, in a post, I mentioned about doing an unboxing post. and here it is!

I got a bit excited by the package arriving, so took a load of photos - some of them aren't so professional but I hope you can still get the gist of it.

This is a Patreon reward for a game called The Woods by Oakbound Studios. I realise that it's not quite as well known as, say, Warhammer, but its a game that I love the aesthetic of.

It's a game that combines Celtic myths, specifically from wales and Cornwall and combines them with Arthurian Legend and some Tolkien as well. I'm really enamored by the setting. Its a diceless game and is mostly geared up for being a skirmish game, but there are RPG rules and options for turning it into a full on wargame as well. Many of the miniatures are influenced by either Arthurian legends, Welsh and Cornish and Celtic myths and by some Tolkien-esque things and some have an old-school Warhammer feel to them. Yeah, I love the setting.

They have the website, if you wish taking a look at Oakbound.co.uk

There is a youtube channel as well where aspects of the game and wargaming are looked at.

There are also a pair of Facebook pages. One is for the company in general and for other products and games that Oakbound Studios do including a Moonstone RPG and if you get into The Woods, there is a player group here.

Needless to say, I was very excited to receive the Patreon reward through the post yesterday and I'm very pleased with the warband. I'm surprised - very pleasantly so - that the warband came in a wood box with embossing and with foam inlays for the figures. I'm going to enjoy painting them.

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A good day comes with an
Oakbound Studio sticker.

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Ooo, a fancy box of druids.

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First glimpse, with super fancy
concept art

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Fancy Druid concept art.

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Such a safe warband.

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The Druids prepare to defend Anglesey

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Master Druid in Berlin Calendar Helmet.

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Fury like woman number 1.

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Armed Warrior number 1.

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Armed Warrior number 2

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Apprentice Druid number 1

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Hare Familiar

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Fury like woman 2

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Armed Warrior 3

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Armed Warrior number 4

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Apprentice Druid 2

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Fury like woman 3

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Fury like woman 4

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Super cool Druid Last Stand concept art

Its not quite over yet folks. Last night, after taking the photos for the warband so I could make this post, I got excited and stuck them to their bases - which were kindly included. So, here are some more photos of the warband on their bases. Please pardon the background. I took the photos as is, as they were on my painting table, so you get to see how untidy it is, and also, you may be able to spot a few other bits in the background. Again, apologies for the photos not being the best quality, but you can at least see how they stand when they are first assembled.

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Getting the Druid's band together

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Druid warband close ups 1

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Druid warband close ups 2


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Monday, October 24, 2022

 Hello everyone!

This might be quite a short blog post for today.

I've been trucking on with my writing and the fantasy novella that I've been working on for the passed month is coming along. I'm making progress and working on it each day.

I try and keep a tabs on things with daily updates on a new-ish Twitter account that I set up at @DanCoghlan3 if anyone is interested in following that. I do daily word totals there too.

I had hoped to get the novella done by now, if I'm honest. I'd sort of hoped to have it done a week ago, but that was if I could bust through doing some days where I could work through it unimpeded all day. That's not happened, which is a shame. But I have managed to get a first draft for a fantasy short story done in the mean time.

I'm about three fifths of the way through it now. I may take another break from it when I've reached the end of this chapter and write another fantasy short story. There's one I've wanted to do about a barroom brawl including wizards. I like the idea of things escalating as the patrons get drunk and start trying to use their magick.

To be honest, I'm generally beginning to feel a bit bogged down by this novella. But then again, when I'm at this point in a longer story, I usually feel similar. At the beginning of the story, you always feel full of ideas and feel motivated to get as far as you can and when you get about three quarters of the way through, the end is in sight and you feel eager to see all the drama that unfolds during the climax of the story. I suppose I'm not there yet. I'm still in that middle zone were you haven't got the ending in sight and the vigor you started with has worn off. I suppose I'm just waiting for that 'second wind'. Lets see where I'm at by the end of this month and think again shall we.

Anyway, hopefully tomorrow, I'll have another blog post. I had some post through this morning and I'll soon do an 'unboxing post about what I received. all I'm going to say is that its wargame related, a skirmish game in fact, so it should be curious to any wargamers and roleplay gamers too. Plus, I'll leave this picture as a tease to end this post. I always feel excited when there is an Oakbound Games logo involved.

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Mystery box from Oakbound Studios


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Monday, April 11, 2022

 Hello everyone!

Guess what, life still got in the way after my last blog post. Yeah, I was hoping that that wouldn't happen, but it has. But anyway, I think there'll be a little influence over my writing and a few more minor commitments, but no so drastic as they have been over the last month.

That unfortunately means that I've managed to get very little writing down in the fortnight since my last post, and that's something I was almost immediately dreading. I'm still not sure I want to go into what has happened too much, but I think there is some much needed help coming in to some areas, which I'll welcome.

Onto some peripheral things that have happened in the meantime that is actually relevant. One thing I've been thinking about is to include some wargaming and roleplay games that I think are relevant. I have got into a game called The Woods by Oakbound Studios, which I love the background to, with inspirations from Celtic Myth, King Arthur Legends, Welsh Legends, some Brian Froud things and some terry Pratchett inspiration. I've been painting up some models, all be in badly, ready for a few games. I do need to base them up properly. Please excuse the quality of the photos as well.

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Fodden and Pixie Badger-Riders
for The Woods

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Representations of the four seasons,
for The Woods.

If you would like to check them out, please take a look at their website here, and their facebook group here.

Also, I received my copies of Jungle Tomb of the Mummy Bride, a campaign setting for DnD 5th Edition and also for Dungeon Crawl Classics. I managed to get a copy for each. Hopefully, they be available for general sale soon.

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Jungle Tomb of the Mummy Bride,
for DnD and DCC

Anyway, where am I heading from here? Will I be continuing writing?

Of course I will. I realise that life has got in the way recently, but storytelling is something I serious about. It sometimes feels like there are so many stories in my head that its difficult to get them all down quick enough. Sometimes that's a problem - it doesn't exactly aid focusing. But still, even if I have difficulty getting stiff out there for you guys to read, it's still something I'm serious about doing.

So what's happening with the story I was working on until recently?

Well, I think I've lost momentum with it at the moment. I think that it would be much easier to start the story over again. It's a shame, I was about half way through the first draft, but I'm having difficulty building the momentum up with it again. To be honest, I'm not really happy with how the first half was going as well. There were clunky bits in it and I think it could generally have gone a lot better anyway. I think starting it over again could fix a number of the problems that I'm seeing at the moment. I'm still having difficulty getting the characters to the nub of the story, to the necropolis of a mummified elf king. But those should work themselves out.

I still have the other couple of stories to edit, but that'll be once I've completed a couple more first drafts. I want to go through things in batches, get a few first drafts done, then work through them with second drafts, and then edits and so on.

Anyway, I think that's enough for this week. Hopefully I'll have a lot more writing based news to share with you. I hope you all are well and I'll see you next time.

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