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KhazarKhum
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IIUC, then it's WK's story, and the others are people he meets along the way. Correct?
Then what's wrong with making it a large, multi-volume serial? So far what you have makes a good first part, followed by another "chapter" from the serial, and so on.
Here's what I mean. Book (or Chapter, or Part , or Scroll, whatever) one, is the part you've finished, ending with him heading up the coast. The next part has just started, with the arrival of the Queen's men. This will go until the next break, at which time you make a new chapter, or whatever.
For OSA, you might consider calling each one a "sequel" to the next & posting them as different "stories" just so it won't look too overwhelming. Or calling them different volumes, ie "In the Darkness" V1, V2, etc
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ghettoelleth
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multi part stories? Speshul stuff.
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KhazarKhum
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I personally don't think you need the list. Honest.
Having them meet WK along the way is the best approach. You have a strong character there, and it would be a shame to shelve him at some point.
If you do it as a serial, then all you need is a little capsule at the beginning. When we last left our hero, he had left behind the family where he was unwanted, and was making his way towards a new life on his own... That sort of thing.
You're not making OCs; everyone knows that there's 9 Nazgul, and that one has a name (Khamul). And there's precious little on their backgrounds, except for conflicting information. So they're not really oc.
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| KhazarKhum wrote: | | IIUC, then it's WK's story, and the others are people he meets along the way. Correct? |
That's more or less how it looks at the moment. Originally I was going to do individual stories but as I was plotting it and placing each Nazgul in their original setting, it started to come out that it was all going to be linked. I'm thinking now it'll be similar to part one - where it is the WK's story but occasionally there will be other scenes involving the others he comes across.
| KhazarKhum wrote: | Then what's wrong with making it a large, multi-volume serial? So far what you have makes a good first part, followed by another "chapter" from the serial, and so on.
Here's what I mean. Book (or Chapter, or Part , or Scroll, whatever) one, is the part you've finished, ending with him heading up the coast. The next part has just started, with the arrival of the Queen's men. This will go until the next break, at which time you make a new chapter, or whatever.
For OSA, you might consider calling each one a "sequel" to the next & posting them as different "stories" just so it won't look too overwhelming. Or calling them different volumes, ie "In the Darkness" V1, V2, etc
HTH! |
I had a go at rearranging the chapters so that the bit with him heading off was the end of the first part rather than the prologue to the second, as anyone stumbling across part 2 wouldn't have a clue what was going on, but I eventually changed it back. I'm still not sure someone could read 2 without reading 1 first, if you see what I mean. What I am thinking is that I could possibly split it in the middle, into two bits; the part set in Numenor that is almost exclusively WK and Mouth of Sauron, and then the second part in mainland ME. I don't know if this would work.
My other problem is the characters - ages ago I asked for advice on how to let folks know that these weren't entirely OCs, (although I'm still thinking it reads that way), because few people would, IMO, want to read about the WK but even fewer would read about some unknown bloke from Numenor. So we eventually came up with the idea of putting that list thing at the beginning. So would I just put another one at the start of part two, if I did split it? (personally I also think that's putting people off reading, but I can't think of any other way to do it).
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SpaceWeavil
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| KhazarKhum wrote: |
What did happen to the son of Harilmor(sp)? |
that's going to come out a little bit later in this part I'm telling now. (if that makes sense? Long, crazy night at work...)
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