World Building: An Update
Hi, Welcome if you're new or welcome back if you've stumbled onto my blog in the past. It's been a few weeks since I posted anything — sorry for that! Life got busy, and the posts I write take time to put together. I've also been fully immersed in a world building project and so haven't really had time to come up for air. In a change to the planned topic, I'm going to talk about what I'm making and why I've been deep in the creative well. A few years ago I started writing a novel called Army of Shadows. It's an Epic Fantasy story set in a pseudo Celtic set of islands, inspired by Celtic culture and mythology, and starts with a young woman on the run from the law who takes refuge in a barrow and accidentally frees something ancient and malicious. From there we pick up with a bunch of other people as the situation worsens and something else ancient is reborn — an underground resistance to the things in the night, as the ordinary people have to st...