Ima Trooper said:

SARAtonin said:

I AM writing a book.

Have been for years.

High Fantasy.

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How far along are you? I like fantasy. By High fantasy, do you mean like kings, swords, horses and magic?

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I’ve got around 300 pages written, across 3+ books, still need to figure just how things fit together.
And yes, the term high fantasy refers to fantasy that takes place in an alternative universe than the one we live in now.

For me my writing is more of a mental exercise than anything else, me caring much more about creating and flushing out a rich world full of elaborate cultures, histories, traditions, stories, legends, and superstitions. I care more more about the world building, the map making, and how and why the people live and act rather than who the people are themselves. Because of this, for every page of narrative I have written, I have two pages of history’s written. And don’t get me started on the map, between the towns, cities, villages, trade routes, shipping currents, geographical climates, cultural and political boundaries I doubt I’ll ever have a final revision of the map completed. For me it’s about creating a great world inside I can choose to visit whenever the need or want arises. I write for myself and doubt I’ll ever actually allow anything to be published. I hardly even let my wife read what I write.

It’s written in the form of interconnected short stories. There are main characters that are revisited more often then others, but the narrative bounces from place to place, city to city, and person to person drawing deeply into the daily life of different areas and types of people but at the same time, when laid side by side, it’s shows the workings of a vast net of interconnected political and social plots working behind the scenes. For instance, one chapter could be about a barmaid working in a rural tavern fearing for her lover who has recently travels away to go fight in a war, while the patrons at the tavern could be regaling her of new happening in the surrounding area that might pertain to a previous chapter or perhaps on of the people in the bar was an adventurer we’ve as readers met in the past. Then the next could be about a her lover, so happy to be away from that broken down village and pestering woman, but also could be giving us a direct look into the combat first and, while a proceeding chapter could be about a woman nursing her husband back to health, who matches the description of someone the soldier fought in a previous chapter. Probably a bad example, but you get the idea.

As for a synopsis of the world. It takes place about 100 years after a full scale “world war” has ravished the southern continent ending in a very Shermanisk style total warfare, salted crops and burnt churches type of thing. After this a big centralized government has been but into place to prevent something like that ever happening again. In these 100 years religious and mortal powers have been at odds with another, both suppressing things like technology, reading, writing and the sort in an attempt to hold and keep power. But so caught up in this game of charades, the powers that be have ignored until recently a new power growing under their very nose, the merchants, many of whom have formed secret pacts, guilds, and societies dedicated to shaping society as they see fit, from spreading reading and writing to advancing new forms of technology for their own uses. Realizing too late the merchants are who the wealth of the world flows through, the old families and power structures do their best to bury the hatchet and stop fighting amongst themselves and focus their efforts on undermining the merchants. But as this game of control, power, and suppression is being played out, secret forces have manages to do the impossible, breath mana, the lifeblood of magic, back into the world. And with the advent of magic, all former ideas on order, power and control go out the window. Over night previous forms of combat and warfare prove unable to compete with powerful sorcerers popping up all across the globe, many of these wizard banding together united by their own illusions of grandeur. That’s the very BASIC premise of it all.

Asante said:

Bill_Oreilly said:

I'm just saying from a mental abuse point and just oveall fucked up-ness my life is up there with the best of em. It would be a best seller for sure. You can mock me all you want but it's true

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Friends dont mock friends malevolently.

I know you had a very hard and strange time, but if I see you describe what you've been through it makes me almost want to swap hardships.

That, and like Logical Chaos says, I ben through some mucho bizarro stuff myself apart from the hardship.

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SARAtonin said:

Ima Trooper said:

SARAtonin said:

I AM writing a book.

Have been for years.

High Fantasy.

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How far along are you? I like fantasy. By High fantasy, do you mean like kings, swords, horses and magic?

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I’ve got around 300 pages written, across 3+ books, still need to figure just how things fit together.
And yes, the term high fantasy refers to fantasy that takes place in an alternative universe than the one we live in now.

For me my writing is more of a mental exercise than anything else, me caring much more about creating and flushing out a rich world full of elaborate cultures, histories, traditions, stories, legends, and superstitions. I care more more about the world building, the map making, and how and why the people live and act rather than who the people are themselves. Because of this, for every page of narrative I have written, I have two pages of history’s written. And don’t get me started on the map, between the towns, cities, villages, trade routes, shipping currents, geographical climates, cultural and political boundaries I doubt I’ll ever have a final revision of the map completed. For me it’s about creating a great world inside I can choose to visit whenever the need or want arises. I write for myself and doubt I’ll ever actually allow anything to be published. I hardly even let my wife read what I write.

It’s written in the form of interconnected short stories. There are main characters that are revisited more often then others, but the narrative bounces from place to place, city to city, and person to person drawing deeply into the daily life of different areas and types of people but at the same time, when laid side by side, it’s shows the workings of a vast net of interconnected political and social plots working behind the scenes. For instance, one chapter could be about a barmaid working in a rural tavern fearing for her lover who has recently travels away to go fight in a war, while the patrons at the tavern could be regaling her of new happening in the surrounding area that might pertain to a previous chapter or perhaps on of the people in the bar was an adventurer we’ve as readers met in the past. Then the next could be about a her lover, so happy to be away from that broken down village and pestering woman, but also could be giving us a direct look into the combat first and, while a proceeding chapter could be about a woman nursing her husband back to health, who matches the description of someone the soldier fought in a previous chapter. Probably a bad example, but you get the idea.

As for a synopsis of the world. It takes place about 100 years after a full scale “world war” has ravished the southern continent ending in a very Shermanisk style total warfare, salted crops and burnt churches type of thing. After this a big centralized government has been but into place to prevent something like that ever happening again. In these 100 years religious and mortal powers have been at odds with another, both suppressing things like technology, reading, writing and the sort in an attempt to hold and keep power. But so caught up in this game of charades, the powers that be have ignored until recently a new power growing under their very nose, the merchants, many of whom have formed secret pacts, guilds, and societies dedicated to shaping society as they see fit, from spreading reading and writing to advancing new forms of technology for their own uses. Realizing too late the merchants are who the wealth of the world flows through, the old families and power structures do their best to bury the hatchet and stop fighting amongst themselves and focus their efforts on undermining the merchants. But as this game of control, power, and suppression is being played out, secret forces have manages to do the impossible, breath mana, the lifeblood of magic, back into the world. And with the advent of magic, all former ideas on order, power and control go out the window. Over night previous forms of combat and warfare prove unable to compete with powerful sorcerers popping up all across the globe, many of these wizard banding together united by their own illusions of grandeur. That’s the very BASIC premise of it all.

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That sounds like something I would read THE FUCK out of.

Bill_Oreilly said:

I'm confused are u saying you didn't have much mental abuse in your life or that you did? Just curious.

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Bill_Oreilly said:

And again I want to apologize for my other comments when I thought someone else was you. Please remember I just turned 28 and have a lot of growing to do and a lot of the time my past comes out of me in the most negative fashion. It's just an example of how I failed to come to terms with what I have been through

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No worries, water off a duck's back, and I by no means meant to make light of your journey

topdog82 said:

My answer would be some sort of mixture of stuff I have learned about psych regarding my experiences with myself and others.

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Asante said:

Bill_Oreilly said:

I'm confused are u saying you didn't have much mental abuse in your life or that you did? Just curious.

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I suffered beyond belief. Everybody's worst hardship is the worst in the whole world for them, but what I went through is just obscene.

Bill_Oreilly said:

And again I want to apologize for my other comments when I thought someone else was you. Please remember I just turned 28 and have a lot of growing to do and a lot of the time my past comes out of me in the most negative fashion. It's just an example of how I failed to come to terms with what I have been through

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No worries, water off a duck's back, and I by no means meant to make light of your journey

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Man I'm so sorry to hear about that. I can only imagine. Thanks for understanding about the old comments though.whats that saying?  God gives his strongest soldiers the toughest of journeys? Something like that

Bill_Oreilly said:

God gives his strangest soldiers the toughest of journeys? Something like that

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Asante said:

Bill_Oreilly said:

God gives his strangest soldiers the toughest of journeys? Something like that

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