The Tourist
Banned
One of the reasons I came to this forum was the idea of being folks involved in fantasy. While I'm not your fairy, zombie, or quest kind of guy, I am writing about a place few have been.
Most of my story takes place in Purgatory, but not exactly as you might think of it as an adjunct to religious thought. From the POV of my lead character, he lives in a world of "familiar yet different," as they have cities, vehicles, wars and rumors of war all within a crazy quilt of a 20th century feudal oligarchy. Notice I said 20th century. It's a world more familiar to me, than to you.
In a nutshell, he's there to fix a rip in time, and as a twist he is both the cause and the answer. To accomplish this he meets many standard characters in literature, like guardian angels, the fallen, people he might of known on earth and old lovers. No sorcery, amulets or voodoo dolls, but there are ethereal themes and images. And he's one of the themes, much to his surprise. He's also a bit player in his own story.
Now, my purpose. I have been sorely disappointed with many creative writing forums. In fact, I'm in the process of extricating myself from one now. I have either met people more concerned about talking about writing rather than actually writing, or one trick ponies who think they have a new concept because they spell the lead woman's name "Catniss."
Even fantasies must have mores, logical cause-and-effect principles, laws of gravity, governments, etc. There's the rub. I refer to their money as ducats because I couldn't think of anything else. Much of the time I feel as if I'm breaking every rule in the book to write a book.
This is where I need some guidance. Does this issue arise here? If so, how can derive answers from the members here to avoid the obvious pitfalls?
Most of my story takes place in Purgatory, but not exactly as you might think of it as an adjunct to religious thought. From the POV of my lead character, he lives in a world of "familiar yet different," as they have cities, vehicles, wars and rumors of war all within a crazy quilt of a 20th century feudal oligarchy. Notice I said 20th century. It's a world more familiar to me, than to you.
In a nutshell, he's there to fix a rip in time, and as a twist he is both the cause and the answer. To accomplish this he meets many standard characters in literature, like guardian angels, the fallen, people he might of known on earth and old lovers. No sorcery, amulets or voodoo dolls, but there are ethereal themes and images. And he's one of the themes, much to his surprise. He's also a bit player in his own story.
Now, my purpose. I have been sorely disappointed with many creative writing forums. In fact, I'm in the process of extricating myself from one now. I have either met people more concerned about talking about writing rather than actually writing, or one trick ponies who think they have a new concept because they spell the lead woman's name "Catniss."
Even fantasies must have mores, logical cause-and-effect principles, laws of gravity, governments, etc. There's the rub. I refer to their money as ducats because I couldn't think of anything else. Much of the time I feel as if I'm breaking every rule in the book to write a book.
This is where I need some guidance. Does this issue arise here? If so, how can derive answers from the members here to avoid the obvious pitfalls?