Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Laiedheliel]

<font color=silver>Yum! S.T., I thought that was terrific! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

(as i am fond of putting a story away for a year, then picking it up and reading it afresh -- best way to edit if you have that luxury!)--s.t.

You can actually do this? When this happens to me, I usually end up changing the plot in ways I had never concieved possible when actually writing the story. Sure, I catch many more gramatical errors this way, but I also usually change major plot points (which were meant to stay intact!) or kill of a character I had not wanted to. I suppose my question here is, can you set your story down and come back to it without changing major turning points? I find I have big trouble with it...

Do you use interlacing in your story? You know, two or more plot threads running through your story simultaneously and you skip back and forth between them.--LMP

I find I like doing this when I am trying to show both the good and evil sides of things in my story. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] A chapter or two dedicated to the bad guys ever so often is what I mean, just enough so the reader can try and predict what the bad guys are going to do; and it also gives the reader foreknowledge the main good guys don't have. Kinda like in the FotR movie, where the camera jumps from the good guys in Rivendell to Sauraman (sp?) in Isenguard (I had to try to incorperate LotR somehows... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img])

Thanks for the pint! l_l)</color>