(I know, I know…this has nothing to do with Allison’s story that I started-but-haven’t-yet-finished, and it’s not pictures of Scotland…but I’ve been letting this blog slide because I’ve been limiting myself to only posts that fit certain categories. So from now on…all I can promise is that my posts will have something to do with writing or Scotland.)
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So I got this new story idea yesterday morning, also set in the fantasy world of Jarentho. Who knows…maybe this’ll be book #2 some day!
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Sixteen-year-old Solen longs for adventure. He wants to save the city, escape from danger, and rescue a beautiful girl. But there’s a problem. None of the girls–beautiful or not–need saving. And even if a raider did manage to kidnap one of them, they certainly wouldn’t want him for their rescuer. They’d want someone handsome, someone tall, someone amazing. Someone else.
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Nelca watched Solen from her place in the shadows. On the surface, he appeared to be the most unremarkable of this very-ordinary-looking group of guys. Yet, thanks to the gift Malkior had bestowed upon her, she saw something more. Something that beckoned in his future. Something woven from the threads of destiny and power. Something that made him not so ordinary after all.
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Kathleen,
As a guy, I am intrigued by your idea of a sort-of reluctant hero-type of man, if that’s the way you are wanting to go. I also think that, because Solen is 16, his hesitation/doubt that you explore just in these few lines really shows through, and I like that. I think it makes it more real, and would probably seem real to readers, too. Perhaps many of them, especially male readers, could relate very much. I know I could. Best of luck! I think you have something very promising going here!
Wow, Zachery! You don’t know how encouraging this is! As a woman who wants to write guys that are realistic, I question all the time how I am going to pull off writing something that I do not know.
I would LOVE to somehow write a story that appeals to both female readers AND male readers. I’m told it’s almost impossible, because the types of heroes that we females like to read seem fake to guys. But I can’t help thinking that a story that portrays both the worst and the best in a man, and portrays the same in the woman who loves him for his best, despite his worst…that would be the ideal story.
Please continue to hang around. I might one day put a call out for male readers to read a rough draft and give me their input!
I have the same feelings with my character, Christine Palmer, given that she is a female heroine, and I am a male writer. I’m not sure how it will pan out at this point, but one of the things I’ve tried to do with her character (and a couple other female secondary characters) is to put snippets of myself into their characters, and somehow (to me, anyway), they each seem to become stronger-willed or tougher that way, able to take on a world with so many guys in it–especially the world I’ve created, in which the “bad guys” are all males. Perhaps I am attempting to have my character Christine deal with her male counterparts as I would.
Anyway, you’re not alone in your struggles! It seems to be a path I must also trudge down as a male writer. Any help I can be, I will most certainly do my best.