which would

probably make me a terrible author but there's a point where if you ever do get around get around to writing or want to take a crack at it there's a point where like it's easy to think that and you'll be writing a story and you'll be like like well actually because there are things you want to happen you might intellectually want to happen and then like you're writing it and you're like no this is dog shit like this actually doesn't fit the story so and i've had moments like I think I probably talked about this a little bit, but in my first draft, Jin and Shura were pretty one-dimensional.

Jin was very much just the violent brute, and Shura was more altruistic and very much like, we gotta help people and do the right thing.

And I was like, this conflict just feels so shallow.

I was like, I've seen this before.

And I was writing it, and I'm like, you suck, man.

You can do better.

Was Shadowbane your first attempt at writing a story or was there things along the way? Like, how did you work at this craft to the point where you were comfortable with Shadowbane being something that you were ready for the world to see? So I've written for fun my