Raggbur wrote:
Just noticed this topic. Now my novel can be found in thousands of places. Sometimes a page or ten written down on paper, then another page or ten in a word doc. I ticked 'finished but not published', but I'm sure that when I now try to gather it, I'll change hundreds of things in the story. Happend before.
Now there are some questions I'd like to ask my fellow OR novelists.
1) Where and when do you get 'inspired' to write some pages for your novel ? Or do you just sit down and say: "Now I gonna wright something down!"
2) Is it visible you were inspired by lotr (I think we all were) ?
3) What was your main idea / character ?
4) What races does it include (uruks/wargs/halflings ?!)
No, I'm not some sort of intervieuwer who's gonna make money with this when you've published your books!
K
My novel is about 3 seperate worlds or dimensions. Lungard, Vengard and Ontagard. That is as far as I am willing to divulge as the enemies have many spies.....I wriet when I can. I have been writing it and rewriting it for nearly 11 years before i had read tolkien. I suppose my main influences are Norse mythology and Icelandic Sagas, the writings of William Blake, H G Wells as well as Tolkien. I would say that Beowulf is also an influence as well as Saxon Poetry. To use the forms...
1) I get nostalgic and think of the past and use past episodes in my life in my writings. It may be abstract ideas to memories and I am deeply inspired by dreams and tend to inhabit my own dream world hence my interest in worlds within a world. I can look at something, for instance a bridge, and get inspired but I have a terrible visual memory and find it hard to visualise things. I write every day even if it is only a line or two. I keep many notebooks and jot ideas as quick as they come and flesh them out later
2) Who isnt? I do, however, tend to lose the influence and have abandoned entire sectios for being to Tolkienish. However, read any of the Icelandic sagas and you see where Tolkien was inspired. I have kept Tolkien's sense of place that also occurs in HG Wells writing
3) My novel is set in two different eras (well they are 2 different novels). The first is Goldhelm, a female warrior who is of mixed morals, her passive brother Thaddeus, Morcris Strongarm and the shady Dagleth. In the second, Morcrison (son of Morcris, also called Thallanar), Thaddeus, Hrama (pronounced thra-ma), Hrethnor (pronounced threthnur) and an elderly Dagleth. The idea is the end of the world and my love of the moon. I was very inspired by Cormack Mcarthy's 'The Road'.
4) Races include Goblins, Half Goblins, Nocturnilas, Wulca (wolf men, more beserker than werewolf!!), faerie, Troll, Hobs and The three great wyrms and the lesser wyrms
Nick any of my ideas and I will get angry
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