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Adrian G. Hilder

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I was born in 1970 in Lincolnshire, UK to an English father and a Scottish mother and grew up as a child of the Royal Air Force. Moving house every few years with my parents (and later on brother) was the norm and began when I was four months old.
I lived on several RAF bases in the UK and Germany, and there was a time when I had spent more of my life in Germany than I had the UK.
My early years in continental Europe meant family holidays immersed in the bewitching beauty of Bavaria, the Swiss and Austrian Alps. These locations inspire some settings and even events in my stories.

Today, I live in Hampshire, UK with my wife and three boys just a few miles from where Jane Austen wrote many of her works. As a teenager, I had two great passions: c
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Adrian G. Hilder Writer's Block is a rarely encountered monster, but one especially difficult to slay when it lands on the road to storytelling heaven.
It's deaf, so th…more
Writer's Block is a rarely encountered monster, but one especially difficult to slay when it lands on the road to storytelling heaven.
It's deaf, so there is no point in asking it politely to move. I once tried hacking one to bits with Snaga, a particularly mean axe wielded by David Gemmell's legendary Druss. There were bloody lumps of flesh scattered everywhere after that encounter, but the loathsome beast just blinked at me and refuse to move.
I tried asking J R R Tolkien's Gandalf for help, but he just yelled: "None shall pass!" which makes him as bad as the monster I'm trying to shift. Well, should I have expected more from a wizard that needed a halfling to help him work out that he just needed to speak "friend" in elvish to pass the doors into Moria?
Believing that magic is the key to slaying this beast, I then go in search of Pug (or Milamber as he is also known). This guy had a book named Magician named after him written by Raymond E Fiest, so he must be REALLY good. I cannot fail... except that I always encounter Pug at the beginning of his life when he can't even collect shellfish without messing it up. I wish I could find Pug later in his life as a fully capable wizard because he would kick Writers Block's ass (if it has an ass) for sure.
Ultimately, the only way to kill the Writers Block monster is to procrastinate by writing something else - like an imaginative description of how you deal with Writers Block for Goodreads questions. This has a million to one chance of working... but In the fragile reality of Terry Pratchett's Discworld where the gods like to play games, a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten.(less)
Adrian G. Hilder You know that feeling when you make a real emotional connection with a movie or a book - be it excitement or whatever?
Imagine that feeling multiplied …more
You know that feeling when you make a real emotional connection with a movie or a book - be it excitement or whatever?
Imagine that feeling multiplied by a factor of twenty and being present everytime you think about your own story. That's the best thing.
I also get to play god - create my own fantasy world and control what happens in it... except some of my characters develop a mind of their own and began to decide how they will act to drive the storyline.(less)
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“A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.
(from The General's Legacy)”
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“As the dry thirst for water, the starving hunger for food and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.”
Adrian G. Hilder, The General's Legacy - Part Two: Whiteland King

“A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.”
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“A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.”
Adrian G. Hilder, The General's Legacy, Part One: Inheritance

“Patience is all that I have had for fifteen years, more grey hairs, rotted teeth and the continuing decline of my Kingdom my only reward. Patience, Magnar, has overdue debts to be paid.
(King Klonag)”
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“I think there comes a point when the outcome of a battle is inevitable but the fighting has not ended. Then the enemy becomes exhaustion and pain. A common enemy. Does the soldier holding in his entrails and facing the death reaper, care any longer what he fought for?” said Quain.”
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“As the dry thirst for water, the starving hunger for food and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.”
Adrian G. Hilder, The General's Legacy - Part Two: Whiteland King

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

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Adrian G Hilder I won't bug you with lots of recommendations but thought this might appeal. I know the guy on the front cover calling himself James Glasse personally and remember picking him up from my local train station once with his arm in a sling. Apparently his Jeep was over turned by an IED. He's guarding gold shipments somewhere in Africa now.
Who knows, may be it will give you inspiration for a future story set in Iraq ;)


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M.W. Duncan Thanks for the book suggestion. Looks like something I would read for sure. I'll check it out!


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