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How do people DO this?
I'm sitting on the first chapter finished in my wee dwarven epic, and boggling over the thought of regularly posting. I will probably sit on it until it's all finished, but the thought that authors post regularly while still in the composition process? Mind. Blown.
I'm having so much fun with this: Tolkien was just a wee bit elven-centric, and just a wee bit western-centric Can we say white-ass anglo-catholic? it's part of what made me 'eh' the most when I first encountered him, that and the songs. (ohgod, all the songs. Get that shit outta my prose.) But the great things about creating a world where everything is concentrated in one small area (and then you sink it, buh-bye Beleriand and Numenor), there is SO MUCH left over. I have four dwarven clans in the Orocarni to play with, the six elven kindred of the Avari, and let's thrown some eastern Men in there that *aren't* minions of Sauron. These are the folks who *haven't* been through a half-dozen apocalypses (apocoli? Buffy fans would know) - Tolkien was *rough* on his creations.
And then I have to filter that through my dwarves, so there will be very little at first of the Avari (who really don't like that name: the rest of the elves who fucked off after the Valar are the deserters, who are they calling 'Unwilling'.... aaaanyway) and I don't want to ignore or sideline my canon characters, well... Bilbo is going to get the short end of the stick, to pun only slightly, since he's going from main POV character to... mostly not. I need to give my dwarves some love.
I mean, I'm specifically giving each of the dwarves some attention, because the one thing the Hobbit movies did right was give each of them very unique looks (none of the completely interchangeable Rankin/Bass dwarves from my childhood) and fandom has taken that so much further, I want to live up to that standard of characterization and use it to further the story and the world depth.
But aaaanyway, I have a full-time job and a volunteer job and a cat who won't let me type when he's in my lap! (He's too big. I can barely reach the mouse around one end or another: thank goodness for being bi-mouserous.) It'll be finished when it's finished. I hope.
I'm having so much fun with this: Tolkien was just a wee bit elven-centric, and just a wee bit western-centric Can we say white-ass anglo-catholic? it's part of what made me 'eh' the most when I first encountered him, that and the songs. (ohgod, all the songs. Get that shit outta my prose.) But the great things about creating a world where everything is concentrated in one small area (and then you sink it, buh-bye Beleriand and Numenor), there is SO MUCH left over. I have four dwarven clans in the Orocarni to play with, the six elven kindred of the Avari, and let's thrown some eastern Men in there that *aren't* minions of Sauron. These are the folks who *haven't* been through a half-dozen apocalypses (apocoli? Buffy fans would know) - Tolkien was *rough* on his creations.
And then I have to filter that through my dwarves, so there will be very little at first of the Avari (who really don't like that name: the rest of the elves who fucked off after the Valar are the deserters, who are they calling 'Unwilling'.... aaaanyway) and I don't want to ignore or sideline my canon characters, well... Bilbo is going to get the short end of the stick, to pun only slightly, since he's going from main POV character to... mostly not. I need to give my dwarves some love.
I mean, I'm specifically giving each of the dwarves some attention, because the one thing the Hobbit movies did right was give each of them very unique looks (none of the completely interchangeable Rankin/Bass dwarves from my childhood) and fandom has taken that so much further, I want to live up to that standard of characterization and use it to further the story and the world depth.
But aaaanyway, I have a full-time job and a volunteer job and a cat who won't let me type when he's in my lap! (He's too big. I can barely reach the mouse around one end or another: thank goodness for being bi-mouserous.) It'll be finished when it's finished. I hope.
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Also - good to see you here! I've missed your posts here.
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I've been trying to reconnect fannishly (although it helps if I actually hit post instead of leaving the window open for days in one of a billion tabs.)
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Oh, yeah, that would help.
Do you know about bitchin’ party? Biannual fan con held in Issaquah and happening April 14 and 15.