I came up with the main character's name in an odd way. Back in early winter I was drifting off to sleep, but in that space where you are not yet sleeping, and not fully conscious either. It was in that space that I heard a voice clear as day. It sounded like someone was either standing beside the bed, or somewhere just above me. The voice said one word in a heavy Irish accent, Lorcan. I jolted awake and literally looked around the room expecting to see someone there, but therw was nothing. I shook it off and went to sleep.
A few days later I was writing the book and came to the point where I needed to choose the main character's name. Immediately I felt it should be Lorcan. Then the event of that night came back to me when I first heard the name. Before that, I never heard the name anywhere. I looked it up and found it was an Irish name meaning “violent”. So I chose a Norwegian last name that means “burning coals”. And that was how I came up with the name. Half a year later I still have no idea where that name came from, and what the deal was with that Irish-accented voice in the night. But there you have it. Lorcan Colborn...
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Let me open this blog by stating I never thought of myself as an author. Odd for someone who has a book over 800 pages published, I know. Nevertheless, facts be stated, an author was never something I ever wanted to be, nor saw myself becoming.
My life has been so active, so busy, and filled with adventure that I never had time to sit down to type much. I didn’t even learn to type in school back in the 80s. Still today I type using two fingers, though I must say at a decent pace. I ran two wilderness living and skills schools for a decade, and through those websites learned how to type by creating articles for internal blogs. I learned, tediously and painfully, how to manage the websites on my own. Another skill I never foresaw myself doing in life. My whole life I was always in impeccable health and physical condition. It was always one of my top priorities to take exceptional care of my body through exercise, physical training, top-quality foods, and supplements as well as ongoing work on my mindset. As it usually does, life seems to run on its own plans though. I will say my life has not been remotely easy, nor kind on my system. Presumably, due to incredible damage over the years of a very challenging lifestyle, I developed ME/CFS, among other chronic conditions. I observed internally as the conditions slowly intensified since 2008 and methodically removed my ability physical function as I used to. Once the issues reached enough severity to keep me down for months of the year, I decided to start writing. It is true that through the old blogs that are no longer in existence, I typed out over 1,000 articles in about a 12-year period. But I decided I wanted to try my hand at writing books. The process started mostly on my laptop while being bedridden for almost 6 months last year. Lethal Tracker was finally released this month of July in the year 2022. 816 pages and 42 chapters later, I managed to get it out to the world. To my surprise friends and family around the world have begun buying it. But even more of a surprise is the fact that my entire healthcare team, spanning two countries, has bought the book. Lethal Tracker is a very heavy read. Though even in the midst of the violence and brutality of Lorcan’s life, there is a deeply woven sense of spirituality about him as well. Lorcan has an ongoing struggle with not only life as it is, but also with who he is, the exceptional skillsets and talents he has most frowned upon by “civilized” society, and his core self which seems to be of a dual nature. I will not get more into Lorcan at this time. I will save that for the next blog entry. I will leave off by stating that Lethal Tracker deeply follows tracks of my own life as Lorcan Colborn claws, fights, bleeds, and traverses the many pages of the book. |
AuthorWhite Wolf Von Atzingen has traveled the western hemisphere extensively. He is a Northman, teacher, author, artist, nature lover, and martial artist living in the remote mountains of Vermont. Archives
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