Are You Writing Serious Fantasy? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 05-13-2002, 06:46 PM

Saxony Tarn, you've got some awesome questions! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

By the way, Starbreeze, Stephen Lawhead is a pretty good fantasy writer. You might want to check out his Arthurian series, lots of battles. And his Song of Albion series has smaller battles. Of course, there's way more to those stories and finding the battle scenes would probably become an afterthought until you run into one.....

I listened to a group called Iona to write my third and fourth revisions. There's one largely instrumental Celtic thing they wrote that is really spiritual and dark and it's the theme music for my "tragic young woman" chapter I referred to earlier. I also have a chapter in which I describe the music of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Faure's Pavane because my protagonist's fiance is a ballet dancer and they're on a date but during the Firebird Suite a certain fiery haired faerie being shows up (Nar, you'll know what I'm talking about here) and completely distracts my protagonist from his beautiful ballerina bride to be. Yeah, you can probably tell my stuff can drip with romance if I let it. Which I probably do too much. Not in the next rewrite, I promise you.

05-13-2002, 06:46 PM	#1
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Saxony Tarn, you've got some awesome questions! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] By the way, Starbreeze, Stephen Lawhead is a pretty good fantasy writer. You might want to check out his Arthurian series, lots of battles. And his Song of Albion series has smaller battles. Of course, there's way more to those stories and finding the battle scenes would probably become an afterthought until you run into one..... I listened to a group called Iona to write my third and fourth revisions. There's one largely instrumental Celtic thing they wrote that is really spiritual and dark and it's the theme music for my "tragic young woman" chapter I referred to earlier. I also have a chapter in which I describe the music of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Faure's Pavane because my protagonist's fiance is a ballet dancer and they're on a date but during the Firebird Suite a certain fiery haired faerie being shows up (Nar, you'll know what I'm talking about here) and completely distracts my protagonist from his beautiful ballerina bride to be. Yeah, you can probably tell my stuff can drip with romance if I let it. Which I probably do too much. Not in the next rewrite, I promise you.