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When I was a young teen, I wrote a fantasy novel. I filled up 6, 70-page spiral-bound notebooks, handwritten, with my nonsense. Yes, it is a terrible read.
But the world I created and many of the characters have stuck in my head for 15 years now, and I wonder if I should do something with them.
YES
I was lying in bed, and maybe it's the heat, but I can't sleep, and so I've just been thinking about this world and the people that inhabit it, and by golly I think I have an engaging tale to tale.
It would be fantasy, but incorporate horror, mystery, and sci-fi as well. A wonderful hodge podge of madness.
I'm absolutely interested. That's really cool that you created such a detailed world.
I still have the six notebooks, but I lost the maps a long time ago. But even though it's been forever, if you handed me a legal-sized piece of paper, I could redraw it.
I won't use everything though. I mean, honestly, some of the sh*t on that map was blatant plagiarism, but what do you want? I was 11 when I started writing this stuff.
But the story I have in my head has suddenly excited me, and I'm listing characters and plot points right now.
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Posted: October 09 2010 at 21:14
Epignosis wrote:
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Epignosis wrote:
When I was a young teen, I wrote a fantasy novel. I filled up 6, 70-page spiral-bound notebooks, handwritten, with my nonsense. Yes, it is a terrible read.
But the world I created and many of the characters have stuck in my head for 15 years now, and I wonder if I should do something with them.
YES
I was lying in bed, and maybe it's the heat, but I can't sleep, and so I've just been thinking about this world and the people that inhabit it, and by golly I think I have an engaging tale to tale.
It would be fantasy, but incorporate horror, mystery, and sci-fi as well. A wonderful hodge podge of madness.
The main story is done in my head- now to make it long and drawn out.
Perhaps I'll spend the first several chapters having the hero do simple quests like fetch people's books from the cellar or get rid of the mice in the attic. That seems to be the industry standard.
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Posted: October 09 2010 at 21:36
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Okay, I am officially stoked.
The main story is done in my head- now to make it long and drawn out.
Perhaps I'll spend the first several chapters having the hero do simple quests like fetch people's books from the cellar or get rid of the mice in the attic. That seems to be the industry standard.
I think you should make it into a three-disc concept album.
Oh damn I wouldn't have the strength for such a 3-disc anything.
This is actually where I get worried that (like happens 9 times out of 10), I get insanely excited about a project, work my ass off on it for maybe a week, and then it goes on the shelf, never to be heard from again.
I'm really trying to break that habit, and making music has gotten me over that hump.
I've only completed 2 novels since 2003 (when I started seriously writing fiction), but I think I have honestly started about 20 different novels and who knows how many short stories.
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Posted: October 09 2010 at 21:42
Epignosis wrote:
Okay, I am officially stoked.
The main story is done in my head- now to make it long and drawn out.
Perhaps I'll spend the first several chapters having the hero do simple quests like fetch people's books from the cellar or get rid of the mice in the attic. That seems to be the industry standard.
Sounds like early quests in an RPG. I wants to read it
The main story is done in my head- now to make it long and drawn out.
Perhaps I'll spend the first several chapters having the hero do simple quests like fetch people's books from the cellar or get rid of the mice in the attic. That seems to be the industry standard.
Sounds like early quests in an RPG. I wants to read it
That's what I was alluding to here.
However, don't be surprised if, in my tale, there is no "hero," or people will differ on who the hero is.
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Posted: October 09 2010 at 21:44
Put them on paper, so later someone can find them and publish them and then you will be famous and your work will be taught everywhere and it will be awesome.
That's why I prefer short stories. If done effectively they can be excellent.
I wrote a 35-page short story for my final in English last semester. It was supposed to be 4-10 pages.
As I said, I've completed 2 novels.
The first one was Tolerance. It is semi-sci-fi, but is one of those scathing social commentaries. It could use a facelift I believe, but as I said, it was my first serious attempt at writing.
After the heavy first novel, I wanted a break, and wrote a love story called Atropos Slipped. My wife must've cried a half dozen times through it.
There is one novel that will be fairly short (about 60k words) that I really want to finish. It is called Four Children and it is about halfway done.
Put them on paper, so later someone can find them and publish them and then you will be famous and your work will be taught everywhere and it will be awesome.
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Posted: October 09 2010 at 21:48
Epignosis wrote:
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Put them on paper, so later someone can find them and publish them and then you will be famous and your work will be taught everywhere and it will be awesome.
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