I am like, totally a fake fantasy writer.
Jan. 25th, 2009 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrMostly cause I'm too concise.Take this latest chapter, for instance. My chapters in Bound are roughly ten pages each - in html format. Some are nine, some are 11 or 12, but the average is about ten. When I start a story, and start to get a grasp of it, I can gauge how long each chapter needs to be--this is mostly because I am weirdly anal, and I cannot take it when one chapter is three pages, another is twelve, another is one paragraph (argh, Moby Dick, I fucking hate you). It's also why I try to make certain each part contains the same number of chapters. It fucking bugs me if they do not match.
But, I can't always win.
Anyway, anyway. My point here is that I totally fail as a fantasy writer. I just wrote a battle, and I am not very good at it. Any proper fantasy writer would have made this thing at least twice as long, and included all the lovely details of war and military that I simply don't know, and can only learn so much about, war and war-thinking not really being a strong point of mine. I'm a romance writer first, not a fantasy writer, even if people try to convince me otherwise.
This is all said in amusement, mind you. I like noting differences, and I have always known I am too concise to ever be a proper fantasy writer. I wrote Lost Gods, yeah, but each of those is only a novella. Any fantasy writer would have made each book about 400 pages, and introduce a plot so complicated it makes my efforst look like fail.
But, I probably would have fucking hated that series. I like being concise.
Though, having said that, I am forced to admit that by the time I am done with it, Bound should cap at roughly 200,000 words. It'll be my longest, and likely most complicated, story to date.
Yet, I'm still too concise for proper fantasy. Hee hee.
But, I can't always win.
Anyway, anyway. My point here is that I totally fail as a fantasy writer. I just wrote a battle, and I am not very good at it. Any proper fantasy writer would have made this thing at least twice as long, and included all the lovely details of war and military that I simply don't know, and can only learn so much about, war and war-thinking not really being a strong point of mine. I'm a romance writer first, not a fantasy writer, even if people try to convince me otherwise.
This is all said in amusement, mind you. I like noting differences, and I have always known I am too concise to ever be a proper fantasy writer. I wrote Lost Gods, yeah, but each of those is only a novella. Any fantasy writer would have made each book about 400 pages, and introduce a plot so complicated it makes my efforst look like fail.
But, I probably would have fucking hated that series. I like being concise.
Though, having said that, I am forced to admit that by the time I am done with it, Bound should cap at roughly 200,000 words. It'll be my longest, and likely most complicated, story to date.
Yet, I'm still too concise for proper fantasy. Hee hee.
