The Emond's Field Five in #TheEyeOfTheWorld #WheelOfTime leave at around 50k words in chapter 10.

I'm at around 40k words, chapter 12, and my "Illustrious Seven" are about to head out.

Of course, my "inciting incident" was nothing so grandiose as a Trolloc attack, to be sure (instead, my novel opens with the MC getting a letter stating that a certain king has been murderized to death by killing, a certain McGuffin has been stolen, and that this world's BBEG will wake soon. Quick, clean, to the point). Is it cliche? Yes. Do I care? No.

Sometimes cliches and tropes are there for a reason. And I'm writing more mythology than fantasy anyway, with living gods interfering and meddlin' with mortal lives, ala the Odyssey and Iliad, where gods can be killed ala the Norse tradition of Ragnarok, and where mortals are divine touched ala [take your pick].

This isn't some basic bitch fantasy tradition grounded in Tolkien and riffing on Jordan with a dash of Erikson for flavor.

This is someone who's read the Poetic AND Prose Edda, who's read her Homer, who's read her Gilgamesh, who's read every bit of Arthurian Lore she can get her hands on, and who's not only read Hamilton's "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes," and Campbell's "The Hero With a Thousand Faces," but who wrote papers on the Monomyth in university.

I completely deconstruct the classic notion of Elves. They're beautiful, yes. But in the world's past, they're conquerors, colonizers. Now they're a shadow of that, their empire having fallen (thanks to a certain king and his knights that sat around a circular table).

I deconstruct the notion that darkness is evil. The world ITSELF was birthed from "The Living Dark, Where No Light Shines," and the Creator and His brother (the Kinslayer, the BBEG) forged the world and all living things FROM that darkness. From the sparks of their forging the Light of Life sprung forth, and Divine Shadows were cast.

There is no light without shadows, and darkness is not evil.

Even the BBEG himself is not EVIL, just... Entropy and Chaos, whereas the Creator was Order and Structure.

Yeah. This ain't yo mama's fantasy.

Though it does have an Orpheus in the Underworld arc.

Only, ya know... Orpheus actually succeeds in rescuing Eurydice in this one.

(Also Eurydice may or may not be havin' a hot lezzy relationship with the Queen of the Dead, but who's counting?)

So yeah. Anyway. I'm rambling when I should be writing.

Who wrote 6500 words on their novel in the past 12 hours?

THIS GAL.

Is it good?

Probably not.

But hey! This is the vomit draft, and Legend of the Fallen Prince is now at 37k words!

For context, my NOVELLA that's with an EDITOR, Vomit Draft was 36k words (final draft, pre-editor, 43k words). So, my NOVEL is at 37k words now.

And it's not even a quarter of the way done.

Yeah, I'm #WheelOfTime ing this shit. We're talking, as far as timeline wise to compare the two, they've not even left Emond's Field yet (in this case, the City of Mal/the King's Blessing Inn).

Yeah, I'm 37k words in, and the main characters have yet to really even meet.

Hells, TWO of the Illustrious Seven (actually eight people, but eight is an unlucky number, see?) haven't even been introduced yet! And two of the ones that HAVE been haven't had a PoV chapter! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Can't tell I was influenced by ol' Tollers and RJ at all, can ya?! 😜

Couple that with how I write relationships, and it's pretty damn clear my influences from Robin Hobb are showing, and my magic system is CLEAR that Brando the Mando Sando's finger prints are everywhere.

That said, these people INFLUENCED and INSPIRED me. I'm not lifting or riffing or ripping off.

Well, maybe riffing on Tolkien a bit, since it's Norse Myth and Arthurian Legend...

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/114195776569580506

I’m still salty that the show got canceled. 😡

But funnily enough, on the spur of the moment, I rewatched this absolutely magnificent episode yesterday and it turned out that it was exactly a year ago that I first saw the same episode.

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I’m nearing the last 20% or so of Book 5, and there are so many loose ends. I’ve really loved these books but the story seems so all over the place. I don’t plan on stopping, but editing would’ve been helpful.

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Just started with the Eye of the World. Many people complain that it's too similar to Lord of the Rings.

That's not a problem for me, I haven't read Lord of the Rings either!!

I've tried to start reading this series before, two years ago when my low reading comprehension allowed me to read only easier books. I had to put it down because it was too slow paced and difficult for me then.

I've warmed up to slower pace since then, and my vocabulary is considerably better.