So! I’ve started working on my next major project after I finished Blue and Gray a few months ago! I haven’t started the writing phase yet; I’m still outlining and planning, and there are still a few big things I haven’t figured out yet. But I think that in the next month or so I will be to a point where I can start work on the actual writing!
This project will not be very similar to Blue and Gray, I have to say that straight away. It won’t be a romance, it won’t even have truly erotic content, though that’s not to say it won’t have adult situations, violence, that kind of thing. It’s not smut, but it’s not for kids.
So what is it?
It’s a monomyth story with anthropomorphic characters, a furry hero’s journey. That’s the simplest way I can put it. The main protagonist is an anthropomorphic rat. I have a name for her: Raziel.
Whereas Blue and Gray was an intimate, narrowly-focused story about two characters in over their heads and just trying to survive and escape together, this one (which I don’t have a name for yet) is much larger in scope. Raziel will embark on a journey of her own, encountering friends and foes alike of many different species, but it won’t be simply for her to escape to a better life – the fate of her tribe, her new friends, and possibly (definitely) a whole lot more hang in the balance.
This is all extremely vague here, of course, but I do have a good bit of the plot worked out. There were several things I wanted to do with this story, and honestly it took me quite a while to come up with a concept that includes everything, but I think I’ve worked it out for the most part.
One – I wanted there to be a real reason for the characters to be anthropomorphic. In Blue and Gray this is never really explained other than author’s preference... which is the actual reason for it, at the end of the day. That story could have been written with human characters. I wanted to write a story where it really makes sense on a deep level for the characters to be anthropomorphic and plays a real, indelible, critical part in the story.
Two – and this is the tough one – I wanted to incorporate elements of numerous real-world histories, religions and mythologies into a story, and have some of those mythological elements actually come into play during the course of the story. If you’ve been reading my writing notes for Blue and Gray you know that this is something I love doing, for better or worse. I have specific things I’ve come up with for this story that I think will work.
Three – I wanted to incorporate those elements without the use of any kind of magic system or divine interaction whatsoever. There is no magic in Raziel’s world, no gods, though many believe there are and some of the things she sees and experiences may make her think there are, too.
The difficulty will be tying that all together, but like I said I think I have figured out a story where it really all makes sense. There are other elements that are as important to me as the ones listed above that I have also tied into the skeleton of a plot I have right now, but I don’t want to mention a lot of them since they will need to be revealed organically. I don’t want to spoil anything before I’ve written down the first word, haha.
Anyway, I thought I’d put this out there so folks know what I’ll be working on for… at least the next year, maybe two if this gets as complex as I think it could.
Of course I’ll still be writing shorts and posting them every so often! The two shorts I’m working on now are kind of practice for elements of this novel, but after than I have some more ideas for pure smut, haha.
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