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I've started writing Althea again, for no apparent reason. (Well, I restarted the Kestra fanfic, then I decided that it was supremely pointless and just generally not going to turn out any good.) I don't think I can write fantasy though. Especially not fantasy romance. I seem to be doing too much scene-setting and not enough actual story. Then again, given that the two main characters haven't actually met yet, this isn't particularly suprising. But it sounds more like I'm introducing all the characters as if I'm writing RP descriptions for them rather than a coherant story.
The politics side of it all is even more dire than the characterisation, too. So far I appear to have absolutely no grasp of the logistics of quasi-medieval intercontinental trade. I guess I should just put the places closer together, but I do hate it in books when it's somehow impossible to go over a certain mountain range because the author can't be bothered to deal with what's over there, and can't invoke 'magic' because there isn't much if any of that around here. So I tried to make the places I have almost worked out cover enough land to be vaguely sensible, but that just makes trade between them look a bit silly. And I still haven't decided what hair colours my elves are allowed.
The relationship between the elves and the dwarves in the Elven Domain is kinda sketchy, as well. Originally it was going to be backed up by some kind of odd telepathy thing, but it all seems rather unnecessarily complicated. So now it's more to do with economics (the dwarves that live in the Domain are poor, just because they are (self-perpetuating low social class), and the elves are rich, so they have to work for the elves if they want to eat). I'm not sure if I should just drop the whole dwarves-hate-elves thing, though. It'd make more sense if the dwarves in the Dwarven Strongholds hated the aristocracy of the Elven Domain, but an average dwarf just didn't care much. And I have the old elf-king run off to the Dwarvern Strongholds, so presumably he knew they weren't going to slaughter him on sight or anything.
Yay for failing to create vaguely sensible worlds before beginning to write. This is what I get for basing a story off a dream...
(hmm, I wonder if I could do anything with that fairies thing. rather modified, of course - names changed to protect the guilty, and all that. probably it'll be too much hassle to make it hang together.)
The politics side of it all is even more dire than the characterisation, too. So far I appear to have absolutely no grasp of the logistics of quasi-medieval intercontinental trade. I guess I should just put the places closer together, but I do hate it in books when it's somehow impossible to go over a certain mountain range because the author can't be bothered to deal with what's over there, and can't invoke 'magic' because there isn't much if any of that around here. So I tried to make the places I have almost worked out cover enough land to be vaguely sensible, but that just makes trade between them look a bit silly. And I still haven't decided what hair colours my elves are allowed.
The relationship between the elves and the dwarves in the Elven Domain is kinda sketchy, as well. Originally it was going to be backed up by some kind of odd telepathy thing, but it all seems rather unnecessarily complicated. So now it's more to do with economics (the dwarves that live in the Domain are poor, just because they are (self-perpetuating low social class), and the elves are rich, so they have to work for the elves if they want to eat). I'm not sure if I should just drop the whole dwarves-hate-elves thing, though. It'd make more sense if the dwarves in the Dwarven Strongholds hated the aristocracy of the Elven Domain, but an average dwarf just didn't care much. And I have the old elf-king run off to the Dwarvern Strongholds, so presumably he knew they weren't going to slaughter him on sight or anything.
Yay for failing to create vaguely sensible worlds before beginning to write. This is what I get for basing a story off a dream...
(hmm, I wonder if I could do anything with that fairies thing. rather modified, of course - names changed to protect the guilty, and all that. probably it'll be too much hassle to make it hang together.)
