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So, in this issue of TBW Blog, I will begin the journey of The Bridging World’s origin. It started a LOT longer ago than you would think as you may have guessed from the above images.
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It all began when my sister and I, at a very young age, started playing this play-pretend game I would soon come to call “Lost Pirate Land”. Since the beginning, the story was always about being whisked away to an unknown world and getting wrapped up in the war occurring there. Do you remember Jay and Lina from chapter two? Nathan’s kids? Yeah, did you know that they used to be the original main characters of the story? Yup, that’s right! They were the heroes who were going to SAVE THE DAY!
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So, here’s how the plot went. It would start with Jay and Lina coming across a shipwreck that mysteriously appeared deep in their backwoods, nestled in a crater as if it had fallen from the heavens. As they explored the shipwreck, everything would go white and they would be teleported to a new world called Lost Pirate Land. There they would run into a colorful cast of animals that could talk and were trying to protect their home from an invading reptilian race called Kremmons. The Kremmons were destroying the beauty of the planet with their factories that produced menacing war machines. The original inhabitants of Lost Pirate Land wanted to chase the Kremmons off their planet, and so there was war.
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So far, so good, right? It’s cheesy, but not bad for a couple of young kids, right? Well, it had to get weird somewhere. So, my sister and I had a dog (black lab mix) that LOVED to play with us, and she had an obsession with tennis balls. We wanted to incorporate her into our story, so we formed the main plot point which was we were supposed to collect “diamond balls” which were needed to gain access to the Kremmon’s factories and fortresses so that they could be destroyed. The only way to get these “diamond balls” was to hunt a species of black deer (gee, I wonder who played that role) that had diamond balls trapped in their antlers (or mouth in the case of our lovely pet).
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After the diamond ball was collected, the characters (my sister and I as we played multiple roles each) had to hurry up and flee because the black deer would attack us (our dog didn’t like us stealing her tennis balls XD). In order to escape as well as be able to reach the realm where the Kremmons nested, the characters would have to cross… Shark Lake! For those wondering, Shark Lake was our kitchen that connected the two ends of the house. Nevertheless, Shark Lake was the most perilous journey! The sharks had jaws powerful enough to bite through even wood, so if you didn’t have a strong enough boat, the sharks would destroy it sending you into the abyss of the lake that sharks totally can swim in. Told you it had to get weird at some point.
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This was my sister and I’s favorite play-pretend game (well it was mine at least), so because writing at the time was the only creative outlet I had, I decided I wanted to immortalize our game by turning it into a novel saga. As you can probably see from the provided images at the top, I had originally planned to make the story into a twelve-part series. I actually designed the book covers for all twelve books, but sadly, only four of them survived. I lost a lot of them through various negligent accidents as, at the time, I didn’t understand how important it would be to me to still have these as an adult. I am VERY careful with them now. They have survived twenty years minimum.
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And that’s where it all began. From this point forward, the story would grow, mature, and transform several times until eventually, it turned into what you all know as The Bridging World today. Literally YEARS in the making, and what a crazy adventure it’s been so far. I’m excited to share more about TBW’s history, but the rest will have to wait for another issue.
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So, give me an update. How have you all felt about the TBW Blog so far? I would love to hear your input, and if you have any other suggestions on things related to TBW that you would like me to do, just let me know.
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Until next issue, bye, bye
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