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Yes! You can pace better this way, and you don't have to actually finish the actual book to read it in its entirety, so you have a clear view of everything and can change things around without having to remove a large piece of writing, saving you time

No AI Find my dark fantasy novel here: https://bit.ly/hecatombs

Definitely. My novel ended up having 160k words, which is a sweet spot for me personally. Not too short that it feels rushed, but not too long that it feels overstaying its welcome. But what I'm saying is with the barebone first draft, you're still on track even though you feel like you wanna...

Hello, my name is June Chevalier, and I'm a fantasy author. I would like to share my method to writing a novel, which I've actually employed to finish my recent novel "Gotterhavn: Hecatomb's Prize". I have heard so much about writing the first draft fat, and then cutting the fat later on during...

Hello, if anyone wants to check out my worldbuilding project, you can visit my website https://www.gotterhavn.com My novel is also available to read for free there! Or you can listen to the audiobook on YouTube here: Feel free to ask me or leave a comment! Thank you :D

Ah, that's completely understandable. It does categorize itself as being on the darker side of the genre. But I don't want to write a doom and gloom, nihilistic story. I like a hopeful ending, whether the hope is explicit at the end, or implied.

I'm trying to build the world around the themes of being stuck or cursed with immortality. The lore, the economy, the politics, are all created specifically to cater to this central idea. Maybe these short explanations sound too "out there," but there's little exposition in the novel itself. I'm...

Thank you! Just discussing about it helps me develop the world. Birth rate is slow. It was quicker at some point in Gotterhavn's history, but Gotterhavn as we know today has a very slow birthrate, obviously due to the long lifespan, and possibly infinite. To put you into perspective, the main...

Exactly, and that is the kind of dilemma that the main character faces in the novel. Suffice to say, soldiers who suffer more death usually are the ones who lose, because they would be too tired to continue fighting, especially if they also keep losing territories. I feel like it's such a cool...

There are many underworld creatures as well, and if someone dies in the underworld, he goes even deeper down the hierarchy of realms into the void, like a limbo. The remnants of gods in the underworld were deliberately placed by the gods so that their faithfuls may find a way back to Gotterhavn...

Yes, and the thought process of such people is what I'd like to explore in my novels. Same thing with someone who has been a soldier for 1000 years. Imagine dying over and over, only to come back and run to the frontline one more time.

Hi, thank you for the welcome! Yes they are like reborn or resurrected through the power of their respective gods. They will still age biologically, unless they consume this natural resource which is very valuable like oil in our world, or the spice in Dune. This resource will make your physical...

Thanks for the warm welcome :) It's explained through some scenes in the novel, but whenever an Immortal dies, they would have to go through an underworld and find remnants of their gods to be able to be resurrected again. They retain their memories, but they get a new body. So if you die being...

Hi, I'm very new here, although not new to worldbuilding in general. I'm almost done with my second novel. Unlike my debut novel, I decided that this time I needed to push myself and create a world with a little bit of an extreme take on fantasy. Hence the birth of Gotterhavn. It's a world where...