Dreams and the power of fantasy over reality.
So no characters? If your book really is 'about dreams and the power of fantasy', it's non-fiction.
Just mentionin'. In case someone ever actually asks you what your book is about.
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Dreams and the power of fantasy over reality.
A young mage tries to solve the mystery of how and why vampires helped her ancestors escape the Holocaust, affecting her understanding of history and herself, the nature of monstrousness and of human compassion.
The biggest problem I'm having with it has to do with dialogue: if I write in the style that Australians use, it will not be very user-friendly to non-Australians; if I dial back the colloquialisms, it loses some of it's flavour; if I use too much 'army talk', which I am unfamiliar with (but have some friends who can help me out), then people will find it largely indecipherable.
The technical stuff I can research and the 'exotic animals' are not very exotic to those of us who live here, but I get your drift. The political stuff is boring but I think I can manage, but too much will ruin the story.
The part I do like doing the most is the characterisation, but I will need to cut a lot of my current interactions because otherwise this baby is going to be a 200+K word beast. Way too big! I suppose I can use some of it for another book somewhere down the track.
I'm into it.
Right now I'm working on a YA epistolary novel where a girl's diary is found and she corresponds with a mystery writer. They get closer as their writing gets more intimate, but her friends and family are worried about her divulging her personal life to someone she doesn't know.
(Yes, I do like the show Catfish.)
Attempting to write a romance. The hero and heroine come face to face again after three hundred years.
A drunken professor in the 60's is resident director of his college's study abroad program in England and he raises hell hither and thither.
What I'm working on:
Aelfinn, a teenage prince in exile, finds himself representing his country in a foreign court when the ambassador is murdered. But the murders continue, and Aelfinn must battle a shadowy organization out for revenge on his whole family.