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'Allowed' probably isn't the right word and I apologize if this is in the wrong section, but I've hit something of a brick wall.
I'm pretty much in love with the middle ages. I have been for a while and I've had an idea floating around my head for a month or so and decided to get to making to notes, characters sheets (etc) as I usually do. Recently I've realised that what I had in mind wouldn't work against an historical backdrop. At all. I tried to make the plot fit in with the time period but it failed
and so one of my friend suggested I create my own little world. That would probably be ideal for me, except then I wondered if that would make it fantasy. My friend pointed out over popular historical novels like Pillars Of The Earth have fictional characters and events (I haven't read it, I wouldn't know), but that doesn't count, does it?
There'll be no major overhaul, it will be everything with the middle ages, I'll just be creating my own little corner without having to have my time line fit in with history.
Forgive me for being ignorant, but I'm pretty sure that for me to create my own world, country, characters, that would make it fantasy. My friend is insisting it wouldn't. I've never read fantasy, although wiki states "Essentially, fantasy follows rules of its own making, allowing magic and other fantastic devices to be used and still be internally cohesive". There will be no magic, no other races (etc). At all. Writing that kind of book doesn't interest me, it'll follow all the rules of this world and life in the middle ages. So now I've confused.
If I write it, will it be classed as historical or fantasy (or something else)?
I'm pretty much in love with the middle ages. I have been for a while and I've had an idea floating around my head for a month or so and decided to get to making to notes, characters sheets (etc) as I usually do. Recently I've realised that what I had in mind wouldn't work against an historical backdrop. At all. I tried to make the plot fit in with the time period but it failed
and so one of my friend suggested I create my own little world. That would probably be ideal for me, except then I wondered if that would make it fantasy. My friend pointed out over popular historical novels like Pillars Of The Earth have fictional characters and events (I haven't read it, I wouldn't know), but that doesn't count, does it?
There'll be no major overhaul, it will be everything with the middle ages, I'll just be creating my own little corner without having to have my time line fit in with history.
Forgive me for being ignorant, but I'm pretty sure that for me to create my own world, country, characters, that would make it fantasy. My friend is insisting it wouldn't. I've never read fantasy, although wiki states "Essentially, fantasy follows rules of its own making, allowing magic and other fantastic devices to be used and still be internally cohesive". There will be no magic, no other races (etc). At all. Writing that kind of book doesn't interest me, it'll follow all the rules of this world and life in the middle ages. So now I've confused.
If I write it, will it be classed as historical or fantasy (or something else)?