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Writing again
Jan. 4th, 2014 11:02 amI had a story in my mind that wouldn't leave me alone, so now I'm writing original stuff.
To be fair, this is a story that's lived in me for a very long time, and now I'm untangling several years' worth of fantasizing to make a coherent storyline.
In particular, I need to decide what story I actually want to tell. It's high-fantasy (more or less) and the main story surrounds a group of dryad-like fey creatures. There are also humans in this world, and building their society is also a major task.
The long and short of it is that this whole thing started as a kind of fan-fiction (Think fan fiction LARPing) that I used to do as a kid. The human world for these dryad/tree people/fey creatures was always the high-fantasy world I was reading at the time.
My thought is to start with the tree-people and let the human world form based upon what I need for the story.
One of the things I intend to tackle with this story is the fact that the fey creatures capture and enslave humans. They do this for several reasons, some of which is to keep people out of their forest. My plan is to take a society with an institution of slavery and move them toward a more progressive way of thinking.
Of course, I could do the whole thing as Homage, and make the tree people kind of like Brigadoon; a faerie forest that appears randomly every hundred years or so in various worlds/universes/alternate dimensions. Do it with a deliberate wink and nod to the worlds that have inspired me.
Hmm. I like this idea, too.
To be fair, this is a story that's lived in me for a very long time, and now I'm untangling several years' worth of fantasizing to make a coherent storyline.
In particular, I need to decide what story I actually want to tell. It's high-fantasy (more or less) and the main story surrounds a group of dryad-like fey creatures. There are also humans in this world, and building their society is also a major task.
The long and short of it is that this whole thing started as a kind of fan-fiction (Think fan fiction LARPing) that I used to do as a kid. The human world for these dryad/tree people/fey creatures was always the high-fantasy world I was reading at the time.
My thought is to start with the tree-people and let the human world form based upon what I need for the story.
One of the things I intend to tackle with this story is the fact that the fey creatures capture and enslave humans. They do this for several reasons, some of which is to keep people out of their forest. My plan is to take a society with an institution of slavery and move them toward a more progressive way of thinking.
Of course, I could do the whole thing as Homage, and make the tree people kind of like Brigadoon; a faerie forest that appears randomly every hundred years or so in various worlds/universes/alternate dimensions. Do it with a deliberate wink and nod to the worlds that have inspired me.
Hmm. I like this idea, too.
