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How does one create an extraterrestrial creature? Well, I go about it like this:

1. Decide what kind of creature it is
2. Decide what real creature on our planet it resembles
3. tweak it a bit
4. Make it believable

I had the concept of 'cat people' in my head before I even started writing. It is only after all the story telling was established that I started wondering what these creatures looked like. There are several reasons for this.

1. I wanted to get a feeling for how the creatures lived on this planet
2. I had to figure out what era of technology that they live in, in relation to our own
3. I wanted to make the descriptions in the story vague and short, to allow the reader to create their own vision

Currently, I'm painting the cover-art of Adventures in Raoolia in which I'm depicting the main character, Denzcan/Master RRandoll at the moment when he discovers the meteorite that will bestow ultimate power upon him. I really am making it a point to sell to the audience that he is based on a cat, tiger if you will, but isn't a cat. Therefore, features on his body will be exaggerated, and others will be invented.

Tigrens are 10 feet tall, bipedal, and have hands similar to ours, so there are some things that I have to blend between what a cat would have and what a humanoid would have in order to invent any type of technology, albeit swords and plows, crossbows, castles, chisels, etc.

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Adventures in Raoolia Part 2

The Adventures in Raoolia begins on a backwater continent that has one village, one city and one castle. The rest of the continent is sub-tropical forest. It is a very rural, rather unpopulated continent, and the story starts out in a cave, not far from a river, that leads into a large lake.

There is action from the first word, a chase scene is underway, as a rogue group of Tigrens are hunting a Carcalian who has entered their territory!

The Carcalian, named Liotoch (Lio for short, (sounds like Leo)) runs to the one village located on the continent for help, for the city he is from is too far away. Lio convinces the BellBourians to help him (Carcalians that live in BellBour Village) and a small group sets out to get to the bottom of the situation.

To read the first adventure in The Epic of Cougran please click here: http://www.lulu.com/content/232428. It only costs $3.00 to download the book, and then
you can decide if you wish to invest in the novel when it becomes available.

You may email me at contact@pjetimages.com.

Cougran's Intelligent Races

The intelligent life on planet Cougran evolved from cats, millions of years ago. The first race was called Carcalian, and over time another race mutated from them. Now, at the time of Adventures in Raoolia, 25% of all births are Tigrens, which are easily distinguished by their birth mark on their backs (as seen below).

Carcalians are around three feet tall, but during mating season, their hormones trigger a metamorphosis and they grow into fiercer, stronger, 5 foot taller versions of themselves. This gene mutated, and produced a Tigren, who can metamorphosize at will from 3 feet to ten feet. They are naturally very aggressive and combative, and long ago established academies in castles to train themselves to harness this aggressive nature into martial arts combat. Every year, during mating season, they hold an 'Olympics' for each of the seven clans and put on a 12 week show for the Carcalians. This creates an atmosphere that enhances the following week, which is mating week, where the Carcalians fist fight over mates. The females choose several, and they fight until one wins.

The Tigrens are born sterile and do not mate, so their numbers are replenished by the Carcalians, who like our cats, have litters at a time.

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Elements in an Exciting Story 2!

Characters are an essential part of any story. There are several different types of classic character types:

• The hero, who saves the day
• The villian, who causes some kind of dilemma
• Minions, who do the villian's bidding
• Sidekicks, who help the hero
• Extras, who are revealed in passing

The Epic of Cougran contains a villian, who, unlike most stories, is the main character. He is not fighting a hero, for in society, one person rarely emerges as a hero, or savior if you will. I wanted to write an adventure story closer to reality in concept, and have it adhere to fantasy in execution. The reality that exists is that often there is a villian that emerges (Stalin, Hitler, Castro, George W. Bush) depending on your perspective. But no real hero stands out against these adversaries. Sure, they have their opponents, but it's never a one on one battle like the fairy tales that we all love. More often than not, it's a society or group that is fighting the adversary, and that is what I'm depicting, a single individual trying to take down an entire society.

Denzcan acquires supernatural powers from a meteorite that has crashlanded in the southern part of Raoolia. Denzcan, who was kidnapped by a crime syndicate as a child as a feeble attempt to create an army of Tigrens, escaped the clutches of this crime syndicate, and was never heard from again. Over time, he blames the entire society for his problems, and when he gets the means to destroy them, he sets out to do so by creating a virus that turns anyone bitten into a loyal Minotaur soldier. These soldiers have only one purpose, to carry out Denzcan's subliminal commands to the letter, and they do so, without remorse or thought of consequence.

Several hero types emerge along the way to try and stop Denzcan and his army, just like in real life, but the real adversary is the society. Obviously you can't generalize and say society is fighting back, so I introduce various characters that represent that society along the way to give hope to the readers.

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Elements in an exciting story!

What does every exciting story need? There are several elements that makes an exciting story, and I have incorporated them into The Adventures in Raoolia. Every exciting story has some kind of chase scene, whether they are chasing an object or relic, chasing people, or chasing an animal, chase scenes make an audience get excited about what's going on! Will such and such get away? Will they find the missing piece of the puzzle? What happens when they catch up with their quarry?

In Adventures in Raoolia, the whole story is about someone running from somebody. The opening scene has Lio, a Carcalian, running from Denzcan, Puven, Sabbel, Wensha, Teelor, Sando, and Fent, who are a wild gang of Tigrens. Will they catch him? Where does Lio go for help?

As time progresses, the chases get more elaborate, small groups chasing small groups, small armies chasing small cities, and eventually the chase includes millions of soldiers against millions of other soldiers!

To read the first adventure in The Epic of Cougran please click here:
http://www.lulu.com/content/232428. It only costs $3.00 to download the
book, and then you can decide if you wish to invest in the novel when
it becomes available.

You may email me at contact@pjetimages.com.

The Epic of Cougran - Adventures in Raoolia Part 1

The Epic of Cougran - Adventures in Raoolia is an attempt to recreate the novel. In today's world, we live in a visual entertainment atmosphere that has sophisticated action, edits to alleviate long areas of boring narration, and computer graphics to create entire new worlds!

My efforts toward writing these series of stories is to target young adults with an illustrated novel with adult levels of violence, concepts like 'absolute power corrupts absolutely', and of course, action and adventure!

The Adventures in Raoolia and subsequent stories will be subdivided into groups of chapters called books, which I'm borrowing from the Christian Bible. Each group is designed to be published on its own, if finances dictate that approach. Each story, when they are finished, will be available for sale on my website, http://www.pjetimages.com.

Each individualized book will only have the text of the story, which is the preference to many readers. When the entire novel is put together, it will have a combination of computer graphics, painted illustrations, and paintings.

Over time, this world will grow, and many 'novels' of stories will spiral outward, many exploring the lives of the people who are caught into the web of Adventures in Raoolia. There will be back stories, stories about the society, explorations into their sexual lives, pre-historic stories of wild Tigrens ripping apart whole villages of Carcalians, the establishment of the Tigren Academies, and more!

To read the first adventure in The Epic of Cougran please click here: http://www.lulu.com/content/232428. It only costs $3.00 to download the book, and then you can decide if you wish to invest in the novel when it becomes available.

You may email me at contact@pjetimages.com.

Creating an Epic: Where does one begin?

The process of making something believable to the average reader, especially if you are creating fiction, has to have very strong roots in reality in order to sell it to the reader. How does one achieve this? Research, research, research!

I had to first figure out what I wanted to write about. Then, when I decided that it was going to take place on a fictional planet, the 'real' work began! I had to figure out what kind of star system this planet existed in, how far away from the star it was, how long a day would be, how long a month, a week, a year would be.

Then I had to come up with land masses, a society, races of beings, cities, villages, a societal structure, and something unique about 'my' beings. What makes these creatures unique? What issue are they struggling with that will capture the reader's attention?

Obviously, this task is overwhelming and time consuming, so I made a decision early on to only establish the information necessary to tell the story. All the other details could be explored in other stories arising later.

So my journey into writing began, and 42 chapters later, and an Epic is born!