MaxGiannis

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Hello friends,
I have just posted the first five chapters of my new book, Overtime. It is a psychological thriller as well as a Autofiction, LGBTQ, and Stream of Consciousness. It has quite a few trigger warnings on it that I hope you will heed if you have a hard time reading stories of abuse.
Overtime is by far my most personal novel, even more so then Memories, Scars, and Survival. Even though both are Autofiction, Memories is more about what could have happened if someone finally listened to me as a boy. Overtime is about what happens to the mind when you finally realize and accept that no one every came and you suffered alone for thirteen years. The novel is a Katabasis, or the descent into hell. A popular Katabasis, if you have never seen the word before is Dante's Inferno. I haven't yet read it so cannot speak to how related my novel is to Dante's, nor do I think I am as good a writer as him.

In this novel, I play with formatting intentionally and I hope you all will be able to infer who is speaking. Inkitt doesn't allow anything other then using bold and italics so I had to reconfigure the styles from my document to here, but I hope it's still clear. If you decide to read it, I hope you will let me know how its working for you.
If this type of novel isn't for you, I still thank and appreciate you all for clicking follow in the first place.

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Here's some thoughts I had about wand magic in the Potterverse a while back.


1. Children are born with the ability to perform magic without wands. (Settled Lore)


2. House Elves, Centaurs, Goblins, Leprechauns, etc, can all perform wandless magic. (Settled Lore)


3. Therefore it is my belief all magic is wandless, or else the wands are the magic themselves and any human could perform magic with a wand.


4. Humans have always thought themselves superior but they are equal in magic. So... They created the illusion that wands are special then made it illegal for any other being but humans to use them.


5. It's been so long that they forgot.


6. It's been so long they've convinced themselves they cannot use magic any other way. Even ignoring all the magic they did as children without wands.


7. The trace is bull. There would be no way to detect small time magic from kids (particularly muggles who somehow get it) to know who to track. And I doubt even Dumbledore could cast a spell over the entire world much less just Britain that tracked every instance of magical usage. If they can fine tune it enough to locate Hermione inside her house performing the magic, then they could have known it wasn't Harry who cast the hovering charm.


8. Ron states that kids aren't punished but the ministry leaves it to their parents to police before they get wands.


9. Harry could be different because Dumbledore may have put a spell on him as an infant, and that would have allowed them to detect all magic in his proximity. They likely even had spells on his house anyway, there would be no reason not to, even if Lily's blood was keeping him safe, he never told the Ministry that and they would have demanded extra protection. Fudge even says they watch that neighborhood for obvious reasons.


10. My opinion: you cannot track a human, they track the wand.


11. The ministry knew when Morfin Gaunt cast a curse at Tom Riddle Sr. Without him being a child and without any magical beings witnessing.


12. Therefore the trace never dies but they track every spell and user by the wand forever. It's how they can show up when you cast an Unforgivable curse.


13. Tom Riddle was a child when he murdered Tom Riddle Sr. and his grandparents. He was a village over, and they still blamed Morfin rather then Tom when they should have known he was there if he had the trace.
14. Wands are a registry of every magical user so they can track everyone. And they convinced everyone you can only use magic with their tracking device.

Hello all my wonderful followers, to build onto the last post on my wall, I went ahead and posted the full first draft of my fantasy novel, Death of a Guardian. I will keep the older version that is actually a later version then the first draft so I can continue editing that one as I republish all the new chapter edits as I begin working on them again.
However, for your enjoyment if you would like, the first draft version is the completed version of what it was before all the edits derailed a completed online version on Inkitt. The new edits will all be in first person while the old version is in 3rd person. I felt 3rd person took away from my love of sinking deeper into the minds of my characters and showing who they are and what they want.
For those who began reading the edits over and over as I kept adding things and needing to restart, I apologize and will do better to finish a new draft before I restart. Though I cannot promise not to do it again, it is less likely as I have finally settled on the species/beings that will be in the first novel of the trilogy, with four trilogies planned.

It has been a long time since I have updated any of my writing, but I have recently started finding myself again and began working on the worldbuilding. I have a lot of structural issues I need to nail down, mainly as I move from using real earth reconfigured to making my own entire world using Gleba -- an amazing program you can use and adjust sliders to see what Earth would look like if you changed certain things like how much water to land, how high mountains can peak, the speed of the plates moving, and many other things. So when I find the right map that I love, I will be changing things in relation to bodies of water or mountains, volcanos, and many other aspects. I'm also using it to make the world as accurate as I can with wind patterns, water currents, and all the things that makes earth, earth.
The draft of my fantasy novel right now that I have posted has been edited many times in its new drafts and I cannot be certain where I left it, which isnt really relevant as I have to begin again with the new land around the story. But I still have the first draft posted on Wattpad in its entirety before I began editing for the new drafts back in the day.
I wonder if anyone would be interested in me bringing the complete first draft over here and see where the story started at and once the new draft hits, you can all see how much has changed and how my mind can start in one place and entirely change or add and invent new creatures and species to bring into my worlds.

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