07-24-2018, 04:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-17-2018, 07:55 AM by Mattias Westlund.)
I split this off from the Lore thread since I'm about to go even more off-topic here.
I know this is probably not the place for stuff like this, but I don't know where else to post it TBH. I haven't done any serious fictional writing in years and I'm not a member of any writing forums -- in fact I'm not even aware of any. So I'll just throw this out here and see where it goes.
When I wrote Greater things, I was fully aware that while it does work as a self-contained little yarn, it also felt like the first chapter of a bigger story. Writing about locations and briefly mentioned characters (Olvan and Jedd in particular) I got a lot of ideas for expanding on what was in there. For fun, I started writing a second chapter. And came up with even more details that I wanted to expand upon. And then a third. And now I'm at the point where I think I could actually make a small novel out of this.
The working title is Strands of Darkness and it's an oldschool sword and sorcery romp, inspired by pen & paper roleplaying games, the gamebooks of the 1980's, and the pulp stories of the early 1900's. Actually, there's a little bit of Western in there as well, with its frontier settlements, lawless regions, ghost towns and whatnot. The firstthree five six eight ten eleven chapters can be found here:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
I'm probably deluding myself here, thinking that I could write something in a second language that someone would want to read, but hey. It's mostly for a bit of fun. It's not meant to be a highbrow fantasy epic.
Taking a break from the mixing and tweaking for a few days because heat is killing me, I wrote a short story called Greater things. Kind of [edit: not kind of, directly] inspired by the theme and song titles of Lore. PDF version here, EPUB version here. If you're interested in checking it out (it's just 12 pages long), let me know how it looks on your end and if you spot any grammatical errors or other language blunders.
I know this is probably not the place for stuff like this, but I don't know where else to post it TBH. I haven't done any serious fictional writing in years and I'm not a member of any writing forums -- in fact I'm not even aware of any. So I'll just throw this out here and see where it goes.
When I wrote Greater things, I was fully aware that while it does work as a self-contained little yarn, it also felt like the first chapter of a bigger story. Writing about locations and briefly mentioned characters (Olvan and Jedd in particular) I got a lot of ideas for expanding on what was in there. For fun, I started writing a second chapter. And came up with even more details that I wanted to expand upon. And then a third. And now I'm at the point where I think I could actually make a small novel out of this.
The working title is Strands of Darkness and it's an oldschool sword and sorcery romp, inspired by pen & paper roleplaying games, the gamebooks of the 1980's, and the pulp stories of the early 1900's. Actually, there's a little bit of Western in there as well, with its frontier settlements, lawless regions, ghost towns and whatnot. The first
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
I'm probably deluding myself here, thinking that I could write something in a second language that someone would want to read, but hey. It's mostly for a bit of fun. It's not meant to be a highbrow fantasy epic.