An Introduction

This is a bit of an experiment for me. Aside from one attempt to make a modding blog a few years back (which fell apart quickly becuase the mod I was working on for the blog fell apart), I've mostly been using the BioWare Social Network's blog feature to make writing/modding updates (and apparently post weird things that make me wonder what I was thinking... nothing "bad", but I'm embarassed by my own work after a certain amount of time.)

Thing is, I'm attempting to move out of only really publishing fanfiction and game mods (though I still plan on doing such things) to having a place where I can also talk about my own original work with an audience that isn't sharply limited to a single community on a game developer's offical forum site. (Also because I can put a copyright statement at the bottom of the page without feeling weird. There's not much need for copyright statements when writing fanfic, since no writer of fanfic owns the copyright for the franchise they write for.)

If you guessed that this sort-of move (I still plan on updating my BSN blog on modding and fanfic stuff from time to time) was brought on by some progress on an original story, you'd be right. I'm finishing up the first draft of chapter one of an original fantasy story, which I'll hopefully have in a semi-readable state real soon. What kind of fantasy? I'll get to that in a later post, where I can talk all about the story (or at least what I'll publicly share at this point) without the information getting lost in an intro post.

For the one or two people curious why I'm using "Jackkel Dragon" as my name for most of the blog instead of my real name, I don't really have an answer besides "I'm used to calling myself this on the internet". Unless someone stole the name before I got to a site (which kinda scares me when this happens since I didn't think anyone else misspelled jackal the way I did), I usually try to take "Jackkel", "Jackkel Dragon", or some variant. Hopefully, if you see either of those names it's me. Hopefully. (This will cease to be true about five seconds after this goes live... or at least five seconds after someone finds this post.)

That's enough rambling for now, though. I'll post some links to my other work that I'm not too embarassed to show below to give some idea of what I've done before.

Finished Mass Effect Fanfic:
Exile
Eclipse

Finished Dragon Age Fanfic:
Broken
Friendly Fire
Diamondback Face
Confrontation

Unfinished (But Fully Playable) Dragon Age: Origins Mod:
Scars of War

Character Preview Short Story for WIP Mod:
Untrustworthy