4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
I refer you back to question #3. And after it evolved away from portal fantasy, there was a plot involving magic swords, featuring several teenage MCs--including a spunky princess--and lacking anything like a structure. It was a bad, bad time.
The silver lining, though, was the characters. Isyllt, Adam, Kiril, Ashlin*, Nikos*, Savedra*, and several other characters were born out of this Dread Juvenilia Project, and spent years waiting for me to cut them loose from the wreckage and give them a new lease on life. And lo and behold, it worked.
*Who you will meet in The Bone Palace
I refer you back to question #3. And after it evolved away from portal fantasy, there was a plot involving magic swords, featuring several teenage MCs--including a spunky princess--and lacking anything like a structure. It was a bad, bad time.
The silver lining, though, was the characters. Isyllt, Adam, Kiril, Ashlin*, Nikos*, Savedra*, and several other characters were born out of this Dread Juvenilia Project, and spent years waiting for me to cut them loose from the wreckage and give them a new lease on life. And lo and behold, it worked.
*Who you will meet in The Bone Palace