about the world, about the history, about the characters, anything you want to share!
i'll start.
one of the characters in my first novel is banned from the kingdom for killing one of the first kings 100 years earlier, but he still very much lives there.
that same kingdom didn't have a name in the first two novels, but is called new stormhold in the third, so named after stormhold, the place in the mortal realm where half-fairies live.
nova didn't know the word for snow because she had never seen it before.
luna is a pansexual sex addict.
it took me 11 months to write my first novel, by hand, daily. the second novel took 7 months after that.
that's it, that's all i can think of at the moment.
cool, i wish i could write whole books but i’m not there yet.
Anyway so pieces from one of my stories is about a girl who is secretly an angel and she lives with humans, acting like she’s one of them.
But then when she’s 15 she is sent to a special school filled with students that are all different kinds of mythical creatures.
She hides the fact that she is an angel when she’s there because she isn’t sure where’s she really belongs in the world.
But one of the friends she meets can “see” that she’s an angel.
Then there is some kind of war or battle that will happen because humans find a way into the mystical place and start attacking and the girls best friend (the one who knows she an angel) gets severely injured and in order to save her friend (and eventually everyone else) she must reveal what she is.
somewhere in there she also learns things about her past and family…i’m not sure what happens next, still missing some pieces but i’ll work it out eventually.
Everyone in my book is separated by their voice range.
My trio is a team made up of a ninja/knight-thing boy, a homeless thief girl, and a "perfect" prince. They kind of hate each other at first, but they become best friends of course.
I'm also basing the countries' histories off of a mixture of medieval Europe and feudal Japan (if "ninja/knight-thing" didn't already tip you off :P). At the time of the story, the world has almost fully developed the steam engine. But they're set back in other ways.
I like everyone else's details!
The voice range thing is funny if you just mean the way they talk. XD Or do all your characters sing?
When she was 13, one of my main characters, Eloise, was sent to study as an initiate in the temple of Lilaeth, the Lady of Night and Gentle Deaths, for a year. In her time there she excelled at all her studies and even received the Blessing of Lilaeth, which allowed her to grant gentle, peaceful deaths to those already dying. A few weeks before she was set to leave, an assassin found and attacked her, but she used her blessing to force death upon the man before his time, something only the most powerful priests of Lilaeth are meant to be able to do. She ran away from the temple that night, without taking any of her belongings, and showed up several weeks later at her home in Kydestra, hundreds of kilometers away. She never said a word about the incident to anyone.
Well, my characters eventually get magic powers when they are blessed by the gods of another universe. All of their powers are elements, except one, and they summon them based on their extreme emotion (idk how to really explain it lol).
For example, my character Lilly is very sad and cries a lot, she is a bit of a crybaby heh. So, she was blessed by the water god and so her element power is water. My character Grant has a short temper and gets angry very easily, so he was blessed by the fire got and his power is fire. He can summon his power at first through feeling very angry, until they practice enough and figure out how to summon them on their own.
Humans were not originally capable of magic; they only gained access to it a few thousand years ago due to exiled aliens screwing everything up (it's a long story).
The use of magic is regulated by a large number of beings known as spirits, each one watching over a specific branch of magic (there are many watching over each branch, not an enormous number of branches). Some get curious and get attached to humans, and if the human gets attached too, sometimes they go as far as a relationship and having a half-spirit baby. (I do not recommend this.)
Want more than the standard branches allow? Try messing with the magic directly imbued into the land, and see what unique things you can create! (I do not recommend this either.)
@Masterkey That sounds like one cool trio! Now I'm wondering what a ninja-knight would be like lol
One of the characters in my trilogy is this old wizard (obviously with a beard because cliches) who thinks of himself as "fashion guru of the century" and says he will save all the main characters (and the world, naturally) from the horrid fate of wearing an unfashionable outfit.
@alice lemme guess, he has a huge crush on a certain pineapple-wielding grandma?
@Masterkey Oh my god. No, but YES. SO much yes.
At first, I thought the book I'm working on would just stand alone, but now I'm seeing another way. I could set up for a sequel by never resolving how much all the blinkers (a race of my creating) hate humans in the first book. The sequel could be the exploring of other lands and a resurface of a war. I'm also thinking of writing a prequel. If I do, then Endel (one of my two main characters) will more than likely tell the whole story, with some fun remarks from Elyzabeth (my other main character) sometimes. It would be about Endel's research into what even started the original war in the first place and what he came up with.
all these characters and stories are incredible!! I wish my story had that much plot and development!
right now my story takes place in some kind of cyberpunk universe where the Earth is a living celestial creature and these creatures called Elementals (that act like the Earth's immune system) drive humans close to extinction and off the planet where they can repair the damage humans made.
the main story starts years after the war.
I'm writing my characters with non-cliches in mind. One of my girls and guys are in a platonic relationship, friends, and won't get together.
My story is comprised of three separate stories…
One: A man, traumatized by the death of his wife and child, trying to change the world so that no one has to die again.
Two: A young woman who survived the impossible, and who is gifted magic in a world where magic is hated and feared.
Three: An uncle, repenting for the murder of his nephew, armed with his nephew's sentient sword.
But! One of them is the villain, and two of them are the protagonists. Which one is which?
My main focuses are the worldbuilding and character development, and I'm hoping to bring in a lot of different variables!
Oh oh oh, is it number one?
The Elven, the race that came long before humans and "mysteriously" vanished, used copper in all their jewellery and decorating habits, as it was readily available and looked pretty darn good. (copper poisoning? who needs copper poisoning when you've got magic?) But with a strong oral tradition and the knowledge being so widespread as to why they vanished, no one bothered to write it down, leaving present-day humans very much at a loss as to what happened to their ancestors. ^^;
The main character's little brother (I haven't chosen his name yet I'm thinking maybe Victor or Jensen. It's still in development) got expelled for punching a kid in the face so hard he broke his nose, and he also got busted for drinking in the same year (he was 14). He started to settle down at 15 when his sister started explaining to him that it was cooler to be a gentleman rather than be an asshole, and he listed to her because he looked up to her. However, at the end of the story, after everything that happened, he's not the same. He's a broken 16 year old boy with PTSD and trust issues.
Also, that same kid is the same one I use to tell crazy stories that I've experienced in real life. So when the main character telling her brother not to shoot pedestrians with a paintball gun because that's horrible and he'd get in a lot of trouble…. yeah there's a whole irl story behind that lol.
Here are some totally random and not so random facts about my series
- One of my character's last names is Manakatserman, named for a hurriedly made up name said in a radio show 'Cabin Pressure' and is from the episode Kuala Lumpur
- One of my characters is named Shasta after the main character from my favourite book of the Narnia Chronicles; A Horse and His Boy. Though I did gender swap the name. I was also going to name another character Aravis, after someone in the same book, but decided I couldn't steal all my names from Narnia.
- Another character name, Degenhardt, is named after one of the characters from a TV show I watched when I was little called 'Silver Sun'
- I was inspiried to write one of my stories after on the drive to school I saw a paddock full of black cows in the fog
- One of my stories is from a story I made up for a Minecraft world I created
- My whole universe came into being after I became jealous of the made up languages on Game of Thrones, so I ended up creating my own alphabet and then a place where people spoke it and the rest is history
@AJMaskell YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCITED I AM THAT YOUR FAVE BOOK IN THE NARNIA SERIES IS THE HORSE AND HIS BOY I GOT SO EXCITED.
Ahem. Sorry, I just adore that book too, I read it at least once a year. And it's hard to find people who think the same, or who even like Narnia anymore…
