The Story of The Henchman - Author's Note

Picture taken from: Jimmy Wellington

I do not want everyone to think that I have not been working on my supposed short story of "The Henchman" or have given up on this blog. The answer to that is Nope, I am still writing, rough drafting and noting. Just with everything that is going on in my life, needed to focus a bit on those external distractions before moving on to something more personal and rewarding to myself. Now while I am still working on the first chapter, I want to give a bit of a background not about the story but about the titles that I have decided to go with. 

When I started writing the first chapter, I wanted to make sure I gave it a title that quickly described what the chapter and mood of the story would be about. So at first I was going to go with popular English Lit titles that I had read in the past and use that as title chapters, that didn't work out as well as I thought. So as I was scratching my head here at the office the song "Fear the Reaper" came on, and that's when it hit me. Instead of going with popular English Lit titles I would go with classic songs (all genres). Here are all the titles that I have decided to go with:

Chapter 1: Unforgettable
Chapter 2: Echoes
Chapter 3: Darkness on the Edge of Town
Chapter 4: Diary of a Madman
Chapter 5: The Man Who Sold the World
Chapter 6: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Chapter 7: Fear the Reaper
Chapter 8: You Can't Always Get What you Want
Chapter 9: Hero
Epilogue:   Life Goes On

Again I cannot wait to clean and write the final draft for Chapter 1: Unforgettable, but at least you see where I am going with the story.

Thank you for sticking around and hope to have something up soon.

Prologue: The Henchman

Image taken from the movie The Dark Knight

A story.
A simple idea.
That’s how it all began...

For a long time, the Henchmen have stood by and watched. Always lurking in the shadows, fighting for a scrap of glory and honor. They always remained silent, following their orders, a soldier through and through. They survive in a society where they are nothing more than third class citizens. Their fate chosen by others, forced to stay in the gutters. Their motto, “Make do, or die!”

For years they have served both good and bad. For years their lives had been sacrificed for such unworthy causes. Discarded into the fire, as if they were scraps of paper.

No one dared questioned the Quorum.
To defy them, to defy their laws, meant your death.
You would be erased, swatted away from existence, as if you were a gnat.

And so our story begins.
Not with a hero, not with a villain, but with a Henchman
For his story starts in the most unlikely of ways..

Comment by the me the guy attempting to write an interesting novel:

"For the past few months, I had been kicking around in my head an idea for a story. Which basically revolves around a Henchman who works for a bad guy (I of course would have more depth to the story than that). My thinking about this story is that for a long long time now when stories, movies, and TV shows want to tell a story t's either about the Hero or the Villain. I wanted to tell the story about the person in the behind the Villain and the Hero...the Henchman. With this story I am going to step out of my comfort zone and dabble into writing a dark comedy. Right now I thought I might as well post a Prologue of sorts and give this story (be it short story, or full grown novel) a coming out party. From time to time, I will update the blog with the story of the Henchman. As I have a few stories in my head, but want to work them out on paper before publishing the. Until then...sit back enjoy the on going ramblings that is the Daily Gregisms..."