#authorgate?

@Kaizersurus No worries about your questions. I like a good conversation. Since I’m not live streaming, yet, and I don’t do dedicated book videos (because I just don’t have a large enough audience yet to make it worth it) I love to talk about this stuff here.

are they all going to be between 200-500 pages like standard fantasy books, if you don’t mind my asking? That’s the length of a lot of the best books out there in the genre.

At the start, yes. My first book, Guardian of Innocence, tops out at 247 pages and 110,794 words. As a new to publish fantasy author, I stuck with the rule of keeping it at/under 120,000 words, because I haven’t earned the right to make you all purchase and read a 400+ page book yet. At 247 pages this story is tight, stays on track, and hits all the marks I want it to.  Now, if left to my devices, I will go long in the page count total, especially if it’s a stand alone book. Guardian is book 1 of 5/possibly 4, so I’m not trying to cram the entire adventure into one book. All of my foundation series will be 2-3 books long, so none of them will be massive in size. When I start to get to the mainline stories, that’s a different situation.

Here’s the thing. As I said, the main storyline is adapted from my D&D days. Within foundation series books will be character introduction books to the central characters from the main storyline, some of them getting their own books so readers grow with them as they start out, others appearing in the foundation series as, for lack of a better term, party members so you are introduced to them slightly. By the time you get to the first book of the major old D&D session/story I want to adapt, you will see the first generation of the main storyline hero cast assembled. You will have traveled with them on various adventures, along with the supporting cast that has been built. Then it’s a series of big event books that are stand alone which will easily pass 400/500 pages, yet meant to be a series, if that makes sense. Each books has a solid ending, but you know the story is going to continue. That’s kinda how it all goes til we get to, I guess, the third generation of our heroes and their friends and family, then I go back to trilogies (and in one case a dualogy) until we reach the end of the entire saga which isn’t a total ending…I’ve just finished what I consider the main story. Course…we talking a couple dozen books here in total…so…I’ve got a lot of work to do…fortunately at least 4 of them are already written…just need  massive rewriting to remove what I don’t own and the fact they were written over the past couple decades before I settled on my current writing style.

Frankly, one of my dreams is that if this universe is successful enough, and people enjoy it, I would love to allow others entry into it to write stories. I mean, I’m literally creating a universe, which means as long as someone doesn’t write something that messes with my main storyline, there are countless stories for a creative writer to come up with if they like the lore I’ve set up. Fallout from so many of my stories will be felt on countless worlds, there are endless possibilities for other creatives to have fun and add to the texture of the universe. I mean, I would love to set up a playground for others to have fun in as well where they can add rides of their own to only make it better.

are you over on mythicscribes.com

I don’t know what that is. I tend to be very routine in my internet travels and interests, so I don’t stray far from my habits, especially when it comes to reading and writing. Considering what I want to try and do, I seems a resource I’ll likely have to become familiar with down the line.

Hmm, might be interesting to have a fantasy-authors podcast between various channels, discussing lore, how they would do it, what kind of lore they like and otherwise discussing the nitty-gritty of it, their views on the subject of fantasy stories and otherwise chatting about fav fantasy movies, games or books. Might look into that some time, on the CultureCorner or something.

As a total lore nerd, that sounds like a good time. We all have different methods and choices we make when world building. When you can get a group of nerds chatting about the lore of a franchise, to me that is a sign of success.

I’m thinking of making a start on a few fantasy short stories on a website that I’m working on. When I get the one I’m working on finished and on my site I might see if there’s away of allowing people to pay and download it as a sort of ebook. At a relatively cheap price like £2. It means that I can at least make some form of money as I’ve not been to work since last March due to the pandemic so it would be nice to have a little side project to work on. The thing is, I’m using a blogging site so I’m not sure if that would work over there or not as I’m not exactly tech-savy!

@Roas

Its supposed to actually be steam-punk fantasy with a bit of Arthurian legends thrown in that I’m working on. I’m guessing that I got too tired of the woke nonsense and decided to create my own stories for a change. And I read. A lot. On the website that I’m working on I’m also putting in some film reviews as well. So basically a bit of both. I’m not going to use YT for any of this for obvious reasons and plus I’m very camera-shy and hate being at the centre of attention lol.

@Roas

That actually sounds good! I’ve always had a soft spot for the King Arthur legend (I’m going to pretend that ‘Legend of the Sword’ doesn’t exist, especially with that silly David Beckham cameo on it. I don’t think I laughed so hard😂) and I’ve always enjoyed the Clive Owen version of the character. Zack Snyder directing an actual King Arthur film would be amazing as it’s my favourite British Legend (a dozen apologies to Robin Hood even though he’s at a close second).

I highly recommend Merlin 1998 Roas, it’s awesome and perfectly embodies and captures of the majesty and greatness of Fantasy, with Sam Neill in the lead role, and with the emphasis being on his relationship with Nimue and his father-son bond with Arthur, and how the latter’s death broke him.

And DragonLady, I’m also fairly camera-shy, which is why on my channel, I’ve chosen to keep my face hidden, and just do podcasts and what not, doing essentially the Mauler or ItsaGundam thing.

As to the team-up thing, yeah will probably post when available, though first need to get set up in the new house, and finish 2 books that are due for the end of this month, and get prepped with some friends, whom I’m starting a VG company with, so there’s lots to do.

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@Kaizersaurus

I liked that version of ‘Merlin’ with Sam Neil in although I hadn’t realised for years until I started watching ‘Peaky Blinders’ that he was Irish😳😂. And it had Helena Boham Carter playing crazy Morgana so her playing crazy is always a plus in something. I’ve always liked the idea of her being Harley Quinn but I think Helena is too old now sadly.

Some more ideas for my story have popped through my head this afternoon so I’m going to see where they take me.