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22,000 words long now! But phew this chapter is proving difficult!

Yep, that's huge! I'll add a few more details/names soon as I've just thought a few more up whilst writing notes for chapter five. Looks about right though!

I'll just link everything to Dropbox. Easiest way to do things I think for now! I've nearly finished typing up my notes for Chapter Four, then its just editing them.

Well, I can't see an attach files button.... hmmm....

Excellent! That is what I was hoping to get to eventually (though I doubt I'd be able to do it!). How do you add images to these posts? I've edited a little the map you posted, adding a few names and correcting a few little things. I'll have to spend a good few days/nights going over my notes and short stories and adding the names that I've come up with, and then thinking up a few more! There's a much wider area that can be included either separately as a second, larger map, or as one big one. Still, a smaller one of just Endari/Helmnaf (as the map is now) would be useful for the purposes of the current story.

I'll add a few details where I can, but mostly it looks roughly right! I'm still making it up as I go along, so many places don't exist that will later! Some places don't have names yet either. I'd love to have the map done properly, as you'd find at the front of the Lord of the Rings, or Game of Thrones, like my hand drawn one but better! The one you've done is easier to see on the computer though for sure! I'll send you the link soon! In return I'm asking for your feedback and honest opinion

Thanks for the input! My current debate with myself is whether to simply carry on the narrative without jumping back and then write what happened earlier as a separate story, as there will be more than enough material to make a short book if I put in the details. The main reason for jumping back is to answer some of the questions that are raised in the current point of time. These are perhaps not essential to explain, but would make a decent story! I think I'm currently swaying towards not including the past point in time, though it would be disappointing not to! I can always make it a prequel. If I do include the earlier point in time then it would of course be made very explicit so as to not confuse! Perhaps I will write the end of the story without jumping back in time and seeing whether I feel it is enough. I can always add more later!

I'm looking for some opinions so please let me know what you think! I'm reaching a point in the story where I intend to 'go back in time' after the climax to explain how the story (in Chapter 1) came about. It will be eventually converge with the story as its told in the first chapters, but focusing on a different character until carrying on the story where it was left off. In general (as I don't want to give the plot away!) does this sound like a good idea? Do you mind the jump in the narrative in novels/stories? Let me know if you've read anything where this happened and it didn't work! (or did work!)

Chapter Three is complete! Thanks also for the feedback! Chapter One has been edited slightly as well In case you were wondering, if you have the link to the first Chapter, it should automatically link to the newer versions if you re-download it.

I'll send you the link if you promise to provide some feedback!

Make a few worthwhile posts on some other threads or ask one of the Wildfire people if they can allow it. I'll send you the link when I can!

Chapter three is proving more difficult than the others so far! But its coming along!

Chapter Three is started if there's any more interest?

Six pages into Chapter Two now (going through all I've already written and editing it!). Has anyone read Chapter One for those that I sent the link to? Edit: Chapter Two is now finished!

Thank you for your welcome! If I can ever convince my wife to give me the time I will let you know!

Excellent! I'm looking forward to your feedback!

I've sent out a few links to people! Let me know that the links work and that you can access the file! For the record it's entirely my own creation and I've sent them for private reading only! Copyright and all rights remain with me! Legal stuff aside, hope you enjoy the read and I'm looking forward to some feedback (slightly nervous! Not many people have ever read my work!)! If you want a read and haven't been sent the link, please feel free to ask!

Over the last few days I have been trying to organise Chapter One. When that is done I'll let people have a read and see what they think. I am a bit of a perfectionist, so I'll never be fully happy with it! Hopefully I'll be happy enough with the first chapter in a day or so!

I will definitely add some copyright details. I did have a template for a non-disclosure form for when I showed some people a board game I had created, but not sure if that's going a bit far for a story! I did have a Dropbox account (when I was using Windows!) and haven't tried to use it on Ubuntu. Might give that a shot. Do people want to read it as it is or shall I edit a little first?

Thank you for the welcom Pureon! You had best tell me how to PM you, and what would be the easiest way to get it on the web? Can you attach .odt documents (or .doc if need be!) to the PMs?

I've got 37 very roughly typed (A5). I'm currently re-writing the start as it's changed rather a lot since I started. I have a lot more handwritten that I'm slowly typing up. Its the culmination of a whole host of short stories and ideas I've written and put down since my GCSE English creative writing assignment! The story in question was just going to be another short one but its taken a life of its own and looks like it may become quite long!

Hi! I've been following 0ad for a while now and love where it's going! I am also a fan of the community - it's great to see people so enthusiastic! I was wondering if there is anyone on here that likes fantasy novels (think Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones). I have been creating my own fantasy novel for a while and was hoping someone might like to read a bit of it to give me some feedback? Its very unedited currently, but I'd love to know what other people thought of it! Anyone interested at all? Thanks Joel http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4696046/Chapter%20One.pdf This is Chapter One. The rest that I have written is available only by request.

I've only just read the first one and it was excellent! A very gripping read, with the author building suspense brilliantly, and has left me wanting to buy the second book. It wasn't as good as Tolkien - the history just didn't feel as rich or deep. But it is the best fantasy book I've read in a long time.