Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Idea for My Novel

The one comfort I have is that I think my story idea is pretty good. It grew out of a conversation a friend and I had about the deplorable lack of female perspective in The Lord of the Rings. It started out as just a fun writing exercise, with her and myself as the main characters, and grew into a complete fantasy world entirely distinct from Tolkein's, with its own language, culture and history.

I tell people it's "an adventure story from the girls' point of view, but I wanted them to retain their femininity, so I threw in some guys to do the fighting and found myself getting into their heads, too." So now it's told in alternating chapters from the hero's and heroine's points of view.

Gotta get back to writing that thing.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, you do! Immediately. It's a great idea, I'd love to hear more about it!

Nighfala said...

Thank you! I don't know when I'll be back to it. Things are so busy here. But I'll post again when I do.