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I need a Hellion Prince icon.
Jul. 16th, 2009 09:20 amUp to 12,500 words on the shorter version of the rough draft; and it's progressing very slowly - but I'm also starting to have some success writing in a more linear fashion and expanding on the patchwork of random scenes I had written.
There is still, unfortunately, nothing resembling chapter divisions. Every other time I've tried to write a novel, those have come naturally, determining themselves by pacing. How exactly do you determine where to set chapter divisions if the pacing doesn't lend itself to it automatically? Alternately, uh, what's the maximum length a chapter should be before it collapses under its own weight?
Hm. Have I actually summarized The Hellion Prince here before? I know I posted excerpts back on the old journal, but they seemed to sort of vanish without a splash, possibly because they lacked all explanation.
The Allotment is a magocracy, ruled by powerful families of sorcerers who were exiled from their homeland generations ago after a failed revolution there. Here, they thought, in this new country, they could forge a nation that suited them, where they were in control.
If it hadn't been for the fey, they would have been right. While the King of Oak and Holly ceded a small parcel of land to the mage-lords, a sort of cold war has gone on between them for centuries, and every victory has gone to the fey.
Damarhis is the son of the foremost political manipulator in a nation full of them, and very much eager to assist his father in his machinations. Almost the same age as the kingdom's wild, unpredictable Prince, who is just months from coronation as King, Damarhis is the perfect tool to balance or upset the delicate web of loyalties and treachery in the kingdom. The question is only who will get to use him.
? (summary = very much a work in progress.)
There is still, unfortunately, nothing resembling chapter divisions. Every other time I've tried to write a novel, those have come naturally, determining themselves by pacing. How exactly do you determine where to set chapter divisions if the pacing doesn't lend itself to it automatically? Alternately, uh, what's the maximum length a chapter should be before it collapses under its own weight?
Hm. Have I actually summarized The Hellion Prince here before? I know I posted excerpts back on the old journal, but they seemed to sort of vanish without a splash, possibly because they lacked all explanation.
The Allotment is a magocracy, ruled by powerful families of sorcerers who were exiled from their homeland generations ago after a failed revolution there. Here, they thought, in this new country, they could forge a nation that suited them, where they were in control.
If it hadn't been for the fey, they would have been right. While the King of Oak and Holly ceded a small parcel of land to the mage-lords, a sort of cold war has gone on between them for centuries, and every victory has gone to the fey.
Damarhis is the son of the foremost political manipulator in a nation full of them, and very much eager to assist his father in his machinations. Almost the same age as the kingdom's wild, unpredictable Prince, who is just months from coronation as King, Damarhis is the perfect tool to balance or upset the delicate web of loyalties and treachery in the kingdom. The question is only who will get to use him.
? (summary = very much a work in progress.)
