| Yay! | [May. 19th, 2008|11:00 am] |
Incarnation is finished, at 119,200 words.
I ended up more satisfied with it than I thought I would at first. In the middle, the plot went all bendy, and I had to chase the characters around to figure out what they were doing. This is definitely the section in need of the heaviest revision.
But I managed to find an ending that suited the characters without resorting to the violence that seemed inevitable for a little while- fitting, since Incarnation is largely about politics, diplomacy, individual choice and sacrifice, fudging "inviolable" standards, and other means of avoiding war. It's set among a nation of religious dissidents who left their native country, went into uninhabited country, and used magic to make themselves native to that country instead of invading someone else, and who have very strict prescriptions against killing one another. Anything is better than war and its consequences, murder and torture and the waste of life and land. I've always been interested in writing a novel like this, since so many fantasies do assume that war is necessary, even if sadly so, and the characters tend not to make more than token gestures toward preventing it.
I like it. |
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