Aurora
Sage
Hello. *waves*
So yeah, I wrote this book during Camp NaNoWriMo that was supposed to have been a standalone story. Then I started editing, adding more and more scenes, refining things and I realized the story has serious potential to write another 2 books. More? I don't know but at least two more. There are a lot of questions left unanswered that would be fun to put in other stories.
Anyway, I've always read epic fantasy with a long list of characters and endless adventures. I can get behind the endless adventures but my list of characters is small. I'm sure that I could think of something but I prefer my casts smaller. I haven't seen this too much in epic fantasy (more so on the romantic side of things). Anyway, what do you guys think? Would it be fine to run with a small cast? I'm not targeting all epic fantasy readers, just a refined audience/section of those who like love stories infused. Just curious what others here think.
As a final thought, a fellow author who writes epic fantasy mentioned that it's the theme of the story that needs to be epic, not so much else. The theme must carry across a span of books, so there must be one burning question requiring an answer. Human questions, morals, that sort of thing.
So yeah, I wrote this book during Camp NaNoWriMo that was supposed to have been a standalone story. Then I started editing, adding more and more scenes, refining things and I realized the story has serious potential to write another 2 books. More? I don't know but at least two more. There are a lot of questions left unanswered that would be fun to put in other stories.
Anyway, I've always read epic fantasy with a long list of characters and endless adventures. I can get behind the endless adventures but my list of characters is small. I'm sure that I could think of something but I prefer my casts smaller. I haven't seen this too much in epic fantasy (more so on the romantic side of things). Anyway, what do you guys think? Would it be fine to run with a small cast? I'm not targeting all epic fantasy readers, just a refined audience/section of those who like love stories infused. Just curious what others here think.
As a final thought, a fellow author who writes epic fantasy mentioned that it's the theme of the story that needs to be epic, not so much else. The theme must carry across a span of books, so there must be one burning question requiring an answer. Human questions, morals, that sort of thing.