[Eruialiwen]

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My writing has been about much in the fantasy world. When I was younger, of course it was much simpler, mainly due to the fact that I didn't know about the laws of fantasy. Most fantasy stories I wrote had to do with heroic beasts, and usually not human-types, although the human-types were involved at some point of the story, sometimes it was only a brief mention.

The story I'm working on now has the working title of "The Unicorns of Zalderonn". It's been revised three times in the five years since I first wrote it. 2001's revisation had a strong Marion Zimmer Bradley influence in the first book (it's composed of 5 books); there are just certain writers that influence my writing. But I was unhappy with the length of what 5 books would be--the first one just seems to draw on and on and the same will be with the third book (I'm currently in the middle of the second). I envisioned breaking it down to three books, a trilogy. Trilogies are better, anyway, or in my opinion anyway [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. And now, my influence is Tolkien. I'd already begun the intense process of creating the planet's history, the species of its trees and flowers and animals and races of human-types, and I'd begun to map out its continents and great rivers and climates; and the solar system the planet belonged to etc. How I write, I try to put a realistic approach to the unicorns and other animals, as the unicorns can talk to one another and understand other animals' languages and human-types'. There are a couple rules, however. The animals do not speak the same way the human-types do, and their voices are at too high and low a frequency for the human-types to hear, thus the human-types think that they can't speak at all. And each species has their slightly differing language, understandable to one another no matter which "nationality" they're from. And animals understand one another to a certain extent, although the equine races know the languages of all their specie, as they're related to the First Race, the Old Race, the unicorns. And because of that fact, the equine races are held high by other species, and by the human-types, even as some of the human-types poach them for their horns.

I'm trying to use elements that no-one's used before. Like the unicorns and winged horses (pegasi) being mortal enemies, and the unicorns being prophetic, and different colors other than the usual overall white. I try not to make the unicorns seem all girlchild-y, or faerietale-y. The unicorns and their history remind me of Tolkien's elves, although I didn't copy from him. There's a lot of battle, a lot of history, a lot of adventure. Wheeee, my mind's turning to mush, I'll be back to answer/question some of the other questions/answers! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]