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I wrote over 2,000 words yesterday on a new short, Debtor to Crows, in my Black Fox Mountain setting. I’m not sure I’ve got the tone quite right, but the storyline itself is there, and so is the hero.
It’s important, I think, when starting an entirely new milieu to be in the right frame of mind. Music helps. I didn’t play any music last night, and so I think I hurried, and the prose is a bit starker than what I wanted. Working in a nineteenth century setting is uncomfortable for me; every time I’ve tried it I haven’t been able to get much richness of language. I think a medieval setting lends itself to the grandiose more than a Victorian or Edwardian one. It may take me some time to figure out how to achieve a mythic feel in a setting I associate with Anne of Green Gables.
It sure feels good to write again. I’m trying not to think too far ahead, to the dreaded revision.
I can see how it would be difficult to achieve the scale and scope you are wanting to in a setting of that time period where everything, to me at least, seems quite “proper” and “reserved”.
The bigger problem for me right now is that the locale I’m dealing with is pretty countrified, which can work for or against me. I don’t want this to get too heavy–I’m writing it for the young adult market, after all, and that’s just not the tone I’m going for. I want a mythic quality without reaching epic.
I wish you luck with that — the locale issues seem challenging, but I’m sure you’ll find a balance in there somewhere. :) Congrats on the word count!
Thanks! :D I hope to finish this in a couple of days. I need to set time limits on myself for short stories I think.