Fantasy Opus - Chapter 6

The main characters are on the move and starting to explore the world. There are secrets, lies, a hidden past and an uncertain future.

I've still no idea how big it will end up, but I've just bust the 10,000 word mark.

(The Fellowship of the Ring has 187,000 words while Game of Thrones has 298,000!).

The biggest challenge for me is creating a believable world.

Here's a small snippet of the map I'm using.

It's in pencil and didn't scan very well. The tiny dot at the top with the smudged name is where the story begins.

I aim to do a full colour map eventually and put it on this blog.

That's all for now.

John Howes.

B'inazine plen

Dlen finst tu'vel aeon'tla

If you understand that it means you're in my head, and that really would be scary :-)

You can go the full Tolkien and create an entire language from scratch, then only use a handful of words from it in your book, or you can create enough for the areas you need it.

To be honest I'm thinking more the latter, although I've created some basic grammar rules. I've noticed that unless the language has a basic structure it does look like you've just thought it up on the spot.

More to come,

Bye for now.