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
"Novel" turned more into a novella. Basically I doubt there's enough substance in my idea to extend it all the way to "novel length," so I eliminated the chapter titles and it is now an extended short story. Progress is very slow, and I have gone back and changed minor details to make the story a little less unnecessarily dramatic.
1) To respond to the above questions--I was inspired to write this based on my love of the Western film genre, especially Spaghetti Westerns and Clint Eastwood westerns. Much of the details and story of the novel are inspired by a events in my personal life, including my recent move to Texas, and a basic plot I randomly imagined one day.
2) No. In fact, as mentioned before, this is not a fantasy novel at all--any connections with it to Tolkien would be very far-reaching. I would say two authors that influenced me the most on this project would be Charles Portis and Emily Bronte--but I don't think their influence is very visible (that is, True Grit and Wuthering Heights).
3) The main character is Louis. My brother's middle name is Luis, so I "Americanized" or "Anglicized" it, and much of the basis for Louis is my brother. However, when it came time to write, I noticed Louis is much more like me, drawing from my experiences, than he is like his namesake. In a sentence, Louis is a miner in Darwin, Texas, and is in love with a girl named Lydia, but doesn't feel like he can support her financially, and has been holding off marrying her until he can acquire some more money--which leads him on a bounty collecting mission with two other miners named Jack and Everton.
4) Not applicable
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