Autobiographical fantasy: is this possible? Is this wise? Just toying with the idea right now. Not sure what will come of it.
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Oct 26, 2007 - 06 25 |
Autobiographical fantasy: is this possible? Is this wise? Just toying with the idea right now. Not sure what will come of it. |
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Oct 26, 2007 - 07 09
Outright fantasy, you're gonna have a lot of folk yelling "Mary Sue." But if you go for a kind of magical realism memoir, that could be pretty interesting.
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"Where there's a whip there's a will, my slugs." ~ Orc-driver, The Return of the King
"And pass me another elf, Sergeant. This one's split." ~ Ashnak, Grunts
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Oct 26, 2007 - 07 19
I'm thinking a roman-a-clef sort of thing. Magical realism sounds good too. No danger of me making the protagonist too "Mary Sue" though. I'm too old for that ;)
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Oct 26, 2007 - 21 42
The closest thing I ever came to it was in the draft of one of my novels: one of the books mentioned in it is "Memoirs of a Necromancer", which is the scandalous autobiography of the Master of Necromancy and how he got "where he is today" at the "single most influential Undead man to ever live, die, and come back from death".
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Oct 26, 2007 - 21 47
[strikes a pose] Never too old to be a Mary Sue!
Seriously, I've seen a couple middle-aged ones. The authors tried terribly hard to make them older, plainer, not glamorous jobs, et al - but they were still uber smart, always right, and all of the characters would either agree with whatever they said or would disagree with them and be badly humbled for it later.
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"Where there's a whip there's a will, my slugs." ~ Orc-driver, The Return of the King
"And pass me another elf, Sergeant. This one's split." ~ Ashnak, Grunts