Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

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I will keep this very brief, no need to be long winded!

I have been writing a story for the past five years with another friend of mine. Five years and four drafts, attepmted to publish it once and was reject and we were glad.

Interregnum is a what would be termed as a high fantasy story. It is everything that I want to find in reading in a fantasy story and never seem to find other then tolkien. The plot and characters are inspired unintentially from historical figures and some mythos.

I have only recently looked into Tolkien's development of his literary works and have it useful as a guide post of what needs to be developed and what we need to avoid. He(Tolkien) had many regrets wishing he could have changed some things and wanted to avoid stereotypes( dwarves and elves) Unfortuanatly that did not change.

The basic plot of the story focuses on a mercanry captain and an ellan. Once nation, Aeldenoce falls into Interregnum, where no obvious government is in rule It is very intense and very much under development.

Want to know more? http://home.attbi.com/~rpajari1/ the offical site for the developing story.