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Dr Steve Brule
Dreamer
Very good posts from everyone. I think the hardest reason for me to pick a hero and then just write it "like a normal story" is that I value world building so much that I have centuries and centuries of lore built up. Empires rising, falling, conquering. Gods being born and killed. Alliances swaying and bonding. So much in my world is dynamic and changing. I guess when I look at my world in my mind, I see the whole timeline scope of things so it is hard for me to narrow it down to a single point of interest because I feel like I would be leaving so much out that I wouldn't want to be shoehorning info in.
Like I said, originally I hadn't planned on making this universe into a book. I made it just for the fun of it. I think that's why I may have this somewhat stubborn attitude when it comes to publishing. I'm not really looking for it to be a success, or popular. Don't get me wrong it would be nice and I wouldn't complain but at the core, I am writing because I enjoy it.
I just had a thought. Perhaps I could write a book, maybe a trilogy or something, set in this universe. Once that is released, maybe then I could make the sort of expanded mythos of the world. That way I am able to market some of my work while still being able to complete this lore project. It's still just an idea but I kind of like the sound of that. A few of you here said that the Silmarillion is loved by the fans because they fell in love with lotr/hobbit first and then wanted to know more about the world.
Like I said, originally I hadn't planned on making this universe into a book. I made it just for the fun of it. I think that's why I may have this somewhat stubborn attitude when it comes to publishing. I'm not really looking for it to be a success, or popular. Don't get me wrong it would be nice and I wouldn't complain but at the core, I am writing because I enjoy it.
I just had a thought. Perhaps I could write a book, maybe a trilogy or something, set in this universe. Once that is released, maybe then I could make the sort of expanded mythos of the world. That way I am able to market some of my work while still being able to complete this lore project. It's still just an idea but I kind of like the sound of that. A few of you here said that the Silmarillion is loved by the fans because they fell in love with lotr/hobbit first and then wanted to know more about the world.