[Cúdae]

Yes, I have been writing serious fantasy for about 3 years now. I started before I'd read Tolkien, so I can honestly say that nothing I write is copying him in any way. I have elves, but they incredibly different. I have dwarves, but they are more garden gnome-ish. I have humans, and well, they're human. I also have my people, the Ynara Nahal. They are my biggest pitfall, I think, because they are the oldest people, created by the gods to rule over the feuding elves and greedy humans. They are aided by my dwarves, who are pure of heart. But as I continue writing, I realize that they are too perfect, so I am corrupting them. Now, the largest fault of the immortal Ynara is that they are too willing to deal out death.
One of my biggest problems was cursing the Ynara--with something. The something was I couldn't think of, so I read a few more books and tried to collaborate and draw from them. The result was mortal weaknesses. Meaning, they can be killed or poisoned or become ill. But they are still the Ynara in my universe.
My plot was also extremely hard to make. It was almost ridiculous to create. At first I started with a girl, born to mortal parents, buit immortal herself. Then I scrapped that and went with the idea of a servant messenger, Ashon. His task would be to take the Dark Knife created by a fallen dark lord and cleanse it the waters of the River Newval, in the land of the Dead.
Besides that, I want my story to stand out. So I am creating a story in which good will fail and evil prevail. That's another problem for me, I need to make the consequences of evil winning this whole whatever and make it believable today. Yeah, just a little confusing.
My other problems were language, culture, time, and races of people. The languages I have started. The language of the Ynara: Siltic, of the dwarves: Mullan, of the elves in the north: Ywerae, the elves in the mountains: Talik, and the elves in the sout kingdom: Ylmar. Siltic is almost complete, as is Ywerae. I am letting the cultures evolve themselves.
Overall, my largest problem has been the backbone. The history is a problem because in my world that I created, I see different places. The places the gods created without any stain on them, but the Ynara, Elves, Dwarves, and Humans stained. It's all getting very confusing and it doesn't help that I'm a very unorganized person! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]