What are you writing about now?

[Ent]

-- This thread is for use by those who write. The intent is to provide a place to list your project(s) in progress, give a brief of what they are, and encourage one another to 'keep going, and keep at it.'
-- Like any artist or crafter, writers' project bins can become filled with 'stuff started....still in progress...' for (a-ahem)... way too long.
-- Let's see if the family here can help each other through a bit of encouragement and accountability to "keep on keepin' on" and get those projects finished.

 

[Ent]

Ent's current projects - hopefully to be completed in this order:

1. The Origin of the Ents and Trees - a bit of a lengthier work in verse from Eru to the Ents and speaking trees.
2. The Evil That Remains - another lengthy bit of verse dealing with the beginning of evil and its existence after Sauron's demise.
3. Peregrin Took: My Part Of The Road - LoTR and beyond from Pippin's Perspective. Book: The journey through Pippin's eyes - his view of events - and what happens to he and Meriadoc afterward, including their resignation from their positions in the Shire, and their adventurous journey to Gondor for their retirement. Will cover Merry's death, and is written by Pippin as he's nearing the end of his time.
4. The Characters of Tolkien - book: a look at many of the characters, their traits and purpose in the works, and benefits we can extract from looking at them closely.
5. The Fourth Age: Book 1 - Elessar: Architect of the Fourth Age - All the doings of Elasser Enthroned, the machinations of Men while he's there, the cleaning up of (some of) the evil that remains, and setting the stage for his demise and what comes after.
6. The Fourth Age: Book 2 - After Elessar: The Age of Man - Book. What happens after Aaragorn's death, FA 120. How does mankind do with their charge of handling M-e in "the age of man" ?? Of course, things start well before Elasser's death... do they go well, or ill? Many things needing to be dealt with by Aaragorn and the peoples will be handled, etc.

So that's it at this time.
Present encouragement needed: a continued nudge to get #1 above completed. It's been sitting since 7/2022... well started, thoughts listed... but no more stitching done to pull the fabric together.

Let Ent know how he can be of service to you as well.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

@Ent , Wow! That's quite the load to take on! I admire you for having so many ideas, now just to get them into finished pieces! Your past work has been incredible! Keep it up, Ent!!

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Ent's current projects - hopefully to be completed in this order:

1. The Origin of the Ents and Trees - a bit of a lengthier work in verse from Eru to the Ents and speaking trees.
2. The Evil That Remains - another lengthy bit of verse dealing with the beginning of evil and its existence after Sauron's demise.
3. Peregrin Took: My Road - LoTR and beyond from Pippin's Perspective. Book: The journey through Pippin's eyes - his view of events - and what happens to he and Meriadoc afterward, including their resignation from their positions in the Shire, and their adventurous journey to Gondor for their retirement. Will cover Merry's death, and is written by Pippin as he's nearing the end of his time.
4. The Characters of Tolkien - book: a look at many of the characters, their traits and purpose in the works, and benefits we can extract from looking at them closely.
5. After Elasser: The Fourth Age - Book. What happens after Aaragorn's death, FA 120? How does mankind do with their charge of handling M-e in "the age of man" ?? Of course, things start well before Elasser's death... do they go well, or ill? Many things needing to be dealt with by Aaragorn and the peoples will be handled, etc.

So that's it at this time.
Present encouragement needed: a continued nudge to get #1 above completed. It's been sitting since 7/2022... well started, thoughts listed... but no more stitching done to pull the fabric together.

Let Ent know how he can be of service to you as well.

Wow it's seem like a lot of work...all look interesting but the characters of Tolkien is what I'm most excited for!

 

[Ent]

ideas

Yeah, for the books it was kind of a flood of ideas all at once.. and of course "After Elasser" may need to become a 2 book set.

There is of course "Elessar: Establishing the Fourth Age".... covering all needing to be done to bring order and peace to the mess left after the War and destruction of Sauron... with all the intrigues, maneuvering, etc. driven by the greed of man. This sets up what is really "After Elasser"....

Once it's "their time," we'll see what happens. Right now, Mr. Took has the foreground as far as the books go. (Though he'll touch on many of the things we'll see come up again in the Elasser book(s) since he and Merry go to live with him in Gondor in their retirements.)

The books will literally feed into and off of one another in many ways.

 

[Ent]

the characters of Tolkien is what I'm most excited for!

interestingly, this will be 'in progress' to a degree, if all goes as 'the plan' currently looks, throughout the rest of the wriitings.
it's almost like a 'nice lunch break' during the more difficult entanglements of the Pippin-Elasser connections.
"Need a break? Go write on a character for awhile and tuck it into the file."

But again, the early encouragement you can all help me with is keeping on track to finalize and clear my mind of the Ents saga and The Evil that Remains. "Focus, Ent... Focus...!" Need a couple balrogs driving me forward.

The Ent only has about 10 good years left maybe, and that's not a lot of time for those books. absent a significant lifestyle change, which I don't see on the horizon.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

interestingly, this will be 'in progress' to a degree, if all goes as 'the plan' currently looks, throughout the rest of the wriitings.
it's almost like a 'nice lunch break' during the more difficult entanglements of the Pippin-Elasser connections.
"Need a break? Go write on a character for awhile and tuck it into the file."

But again, the early encouragement you can all help me with is keeping on track to finalize and clear my mind of the Ents saga and The Evil that Remains. "Focus, Ent... Focus...!" Need a couple balrogs driving me forward.

I'll make sure to ask about it every day😂😂😂
Although I think it would be more of nuisance rather than encouragement 🙂😂

 

[Vorondil]

Need a couple balrogs driving me forward.

Where there's a whip there's a will my slugs!

 

[Ent]

OK so enough of the Ent-work.
Who else is doing what else at present?

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

I'll go.

I'm working on the beginnings of a fantasy novel creation of my own, just currently doing character profiles and outlining the basic story beats.

Also working on a poem, "the Lament for Beleg" at the moment, written from the POV of Turin Turambar, as it is one of those pieces that Tolkien said existed but never wrote.

Also doing some poetic beginnings for Nerdanel's pleading with Feanor as he was preparing to leave with all seven sons into exile.

There may be other pieces, but I'll leave it here for now.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

I'll go.

I'm working on the beginnings of a fantasy novel creation of my own, just currently doing character profiles and outlining the basic story beats.

Also working on a poem, "the Lament for Beleg" at the moment, written from the POV of Turin Turambar, as it is one of those pieces that Tolkien said existed but never wrote.

Also doing some poetic beginnings for Nerdanel's pleading with Feanor as he was preparing to leave with all seven sons into exile.

There may be other pieces, but I'll leave it here for now.

Beleg!😢
A question though...the novel you're working on ...is it high fantasy?

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Beleg!😢
A question though...the novel you're working on ...is it high fantasy?

Yes, I know. Beleg's story is devastating.
Hmm... I don't quite have my terms here. What classifies under "high fantasy"?

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

That's a lot of projects, @Ent ! May you have lots of motivation for your first work there, and it sounds really cool. I imagine it would be a lot of work writing it all in verse though.

So, my book is called The Curse of Xanovar, and it is an epic medieval fantasy which I've been working on various versions of for the past 12 years or so. The plot is complicated, but the protagonist is a girl who was destined to be the apprentice of an evil sorcerer, but who was rescued from that fate and raised as a princess. However, she is destined to face the sorcerer again one day. There's all sorts of subplots involving rescuing a Faerie from an enchantment, the main character's kingdom getting invaded and conquered by the enemy kingdom, an entire forest getting cursed with dark magic, and all sorts of romance and political drama. It's not a heavily "world building" focused fantasy like Tolkien's work is, but it's more character-focused.

I completed a draft in 2021 and sent it to a few beta readers, and got some feedback on it. The main feedback I got was to have certain characters and subplots expanded upon, and especially the climax had some pacing problems. So that's what I've been working on since then, and my goal is to finish the revisions before my fall classes start.

Mainly, I need some motivation and accountability to start my plan of waking up early and writing for an hour or so every day before work. I hate getting up early, but the morning hours are the only time when I can reliably be productive!

My goal is to get my book traditionally published. I'm planning on sending it out to one more round of beta readers before investigating publishing options.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Yes, I know. Beleg's story is devastating.
Hmm... I don't quite have my terms here. What classifies under "high fantasy"?

Well it is not based on our own world for starters...it usually has dwarves,elves, warlocks, dragons and similar mythical creatures...

 

[Ent]

waking up early and writing for an hour or so every day before work. I hate getting up early, but the morning hours are the only time when I can reliably be productive!

Indeed, there is motivation and need for both of us. (All of us?) When do we have that consistent, devoted, uninterrupted time at hand, then How do we protect it from distraction, and then insure we actually use it.

Here, often, we are our own worst enemies. We ourselves are often the distraction - and/or the one failing to protect the time. So easy it is, to just 'deal with this one more thing' before we start... which becomes two things... then a haphazard start leads to a 3rd thing...

Let's encourage each other in both our internal and external disciplines... it boils down to 'how much do we really want it!!"

(SO easy to say. So hard to DO..!)

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

I'm working on a fanfiction... it's a Time travel sort of work ...based before the second kinslaying.... it's just an idea though...I have to read Silmarillion and all the events set During that time from the books before I can even start to write anything...I'm not sure if I'm going to post it anywhere yet as I'm a little self conscious about it...

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

That's a lot of projects, @Ent ! May you have lots of motivation for your first work there, and it sounds really cool. I imagine it would be a lot of work writing it all in verse though.

So, my book is called The Curse of Xanovar, and it is an epic medieval fantasy which I've been working on various versions of for the past 12 years or so. The plot is complicated, but the protagonist is a girl who was destined to be the apprentice of an evil sorcerer, but who was rescued from that fate and raised as a princess. However, she is destined to face the sorcerer again one day. There's all sorts of subplots involving rescuing a Faerie from an enchantment, the main character's kingdom getting invaded and conquered by the enemy kingdom, an entire forest getting cursed with dark magic, and all sorts of romance and political drama. It's not a heavily "world building" focused fantasy like Tolkien's work is, but it's more character-focused.

I completed a draft in 2021 and sent it to a few beta readers, and got some feedback on it. The main feedback I got was to have certain characters and subplots expanded upon, and especially the climax had some pacing problems. So that's what I've been working on since then, and my goal is to finish the revisions before my fall classes start.

Mainly, I need some motivation and accountability to start my plan of waking up early and writing for an hour or so every day before work. I hate getting up early, but the morning hours are the only time when I can reliably be productive!

My goal is to get my book traditionally published. I'm planning on sending it out to one more round of beta readers before investigating publishing options.

Sounds like a promising work...I'll make sure to make a nuisance of myself with all the publishers to translate it when it comes out😁

 

[Ent]

Hmm... I don't quite have my terms here. What classifies under "high fantasy"?

Here's a very 'simplified' definition from the ever-trustworthy internet... but some fantasy can actually fit cross-definition based on other presentations of 'the differences'.

There's lots of discussion out there about it... and it seems not all agree on all points. (surprise.)

High-fantasy stories occur in a non-Earth or secondary world, while low fantasy stories take place on Earth or in a primary world very similar to it.

Most important of course is to write the story. Where it fits, in Ent's view, is a matter for 'later if at all.' 😁

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Hmm. . . then I suppose it is high fantasy? Our world is part of it, but there's another world and that one is vastly different.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Hmm. . . then I suppose it is high fantasy? Our world is part of it, but there's another world and that one is vastly different.

Like how wizards live in secret in harry potter series?