SpaceChampion Posted September 9, 2016 Author Share Posted September 9, 2016 I think it'd be a bigger impact to create something that never existed there before. Going from united to disunited to united again is less impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnar of Skagos Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 6 minutes ago, SpaceChampion said: I think it'd be a bigger impact to create something that never existed there before. Going from united to disunited to united again is less impressive. Good point. I'm still very far from the ending, so that is something I'll have to consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Scenarios that suggest unity: There is some external threat that has forced the three realms to unify. It's the lingering result of some old Empire-builder, a la Charlemagne. Few different waves of migration. Common language (especially written language). Few natural boundaries between the realms. Scenarios that suggest independence: No external threat. No history of Empire. Multiple different waves of migration and settlement. Language differences, no written language. Natural boundaries (forests, rivers, et cetera). From what you've said, with early medieval tech, and a boxed in territory, I think having independent kingdoms is more likely - there's no need to unify, even if they have the social infrastructure to do so (which they likely don't). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted September 9, 2016 Author Share Posted September 9, 2016 There could be a technological change that changes the political situation. Didn't the invention of the stirrup result in the Mongols conquering nearly everything they could get to bordering the steppes? Yeah, here it is. And the stirrup allowed mounted knights to be possible and thus feudalism was born. This makes going from small kingdom to a unified kingdom possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 6 hours ago, SpaceChampion said: I think it'd be a bigger impact to create something that never existed there before. Going from united to disunited to united again is less impressive. I wouldn't say it's less impressive. It's a very different narrative imperative though. A re-unification would most likely drag up all sorts of old laundry, old rivalries, reflection on why it fell apart in the first place, whether doing it again is a good idea and how it should be different from last time- but also nostalgia for the old etc... A fresh unification would potentially be (narratively) more forward-looking. I'd suggest that if the actual unification isn't meant to take over the entire plot a new unification might be easier to manage, because you're just dealing with the change from the previous status quo to the new status quo without a yet older status quo trying to stick its fingers into everything. But if that kind of thing's your bag... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnar of Skagos Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 There is also the issue of creating far too many locations and kings and courts and lords to keep track of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.T. Phipps Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 The Fantasy Book Critic was nice enough to print my essay - TO MYTHOS OR NOT, which discusses writing in H.P. Lovecraft's world. http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2016/09/guest-post-to-mythos-or-not-to-mythos.html I'm quite proud of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 An interesting submission call: http://www.tor.com/2016/10/06/tor-com-publishing-opening-to-fantasy-novellas-on-october-12th/  "However, we will only be considering novellas that inhabit worlds that are not modeled on European cultures." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 I wish I had something ready for their previous call, that was perfect for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Gilfellon Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Wonder if my novella of a woman from an African type setting being sent to marry someone from place not modelled on a European setting, but could easily be construed as one, to avoid a war might count. On the basis of which. How foreshadowed do things need to be? Ending of novella ends with revolution breaking out in the city against the King, which happens because another group sought to remove the control the King and Church had over an ancient order. It's only hinted at through a single conversation between two characters at the start. The POV character is then out of the country escorting the girl back to the city. When they get back there is a Fencing Contest that ends with the start of the rebellion. Things are left in confusion as to what is happening as I focus more on what happens to the woman and the man who brought her to the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.T. Phipps Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 That's awesome, THE FANTASY BOOK CRITIC reviewed both my latest books. http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2016/10/mini-reviews-cthulhu-armageddon.html?m=0 The audiobook of CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON came out today. Good timing everyone. Post-apocalypse human vs. monster vs. god vs. monstrous human action! http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Cthulhu-Armageddon-Audiobook/B01LX4JCHS/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Still getting my short stories rejected. This one was interesting, because the reader thought my Antarctica story was worse than my Turkish horror story - the former has got a straight rejection, whereas the latter got a revise and resubmit. I'd honestly have thought it would have been the other way round myself, but it just shows how subjective this stuff can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callan S. Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I wonder what the trace of a story reviewer is? But then again I guess that'd be writing more for reviewers than readers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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