Read the Great Game by Dave Duncan. Protag just like Rap, super good guy. Very good trilogy. Really like Duncan. Very nice ending. (He lives and gets the girl). Goods in another world who get their power by being worshiped, etc. But one god gets out of hand and the hero it is prophesied will kill him.

Also read The Eye of Strife by him which was an interesting style. Each person's very different POV. Sort of a fantasy fiction mystery.

Also read the a trilogy by Harry Connolly The Way into Chaos/Magic/Darkness. It was good. Though the guy main character (Tejohn) was kind of a boring fellow really. A very good guy though. Cazia, the main lady, was a bit of a bitch in the beginning. Infectious monsters running amuck. Some Deus Machina (sp) I suppose. both nice trilogies.

Had been listening to the beautiful Skyrim soundtrack on Pandora and it got me wanting to play it again. It would be nice to write stories that sort of take place there. The thing is have to have characters. That was always my real weak point. As Duncan points out. Setting is easy. Characters are hard.

Finally figured it out once and for all. More or less.

Hit with two hands for both backhand and forehand. Hit flat. Use an oversized racquet which is heavy and strung loose so you can swing smooth and slow and still hit hard. Preferably extra long. Hit the ball out in front of you. Use a topspin grip in order to hit it out in front of you. So on the right side, both base thumb knuckles on bevel two and on the left both base thumb knuckles on bevel 8.