Mendalla
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- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
So here I shall talk about what I am working on in my writing. Thought and comments are welcome and I may even ask for input at times.
As those who follow The Wonderart Thread may already know, I have written three short stories comprising a fantasy work that I currently call The Chronicles of Tana the Healer. Short version is that Tana is the daughter of her world's "Dark Lord" figure and played a key role in his downfall. That done, she studied to become a healer (think GP+midwife+pharmacist) and tried to build a new life and identity. But Tana's past comes back to haunt her over the course of these stories, leading to a final confrontation with that past.
What I am toying with right now is a rewrite/revision of those stories with a view to compiling them into a novelette (or maybe novella if the rewrite generates enough additional words) and creating an epub formatted ebook file. Still debating if I would sell it or just put it under a Creative Commons license of some form (probably one that does not allow editing and requires attribution) and post it somewhere for people to download. I use Google Docs to write and it can export an epub (somewhat badly but I am learning how to do it better) so it is not that hard to do.
So far, besides learning how to create and edit epubs, I have been restructuring things. I had a fair bit of "flashbacks" to fill in the back story about Tana and her father, but I am now compiling that material into a prologue. There's also some redundancy between chapters since these were originally standalone short stories published over about eight months so I had to provide bits of information multiple times to keep them standalone. I will clean that up.
One learning on the epub front: All e-reader apps are not created equal. I started out testing my epubs in Readera, a free e-reader from the Google Play store that I use on my reading tab for both epubs and pdfs. However, I found it was having some formatting issues, esp. with my title page. Then I imported the epub into the Kobo app from Rakutan, which can import external pdfs as well as reading stuff from their store, and it formatted much better there.
And I am, of course, looking for new stories to write. Just having trouble getting something going which is why I decided to work on this project. It does require some new writing and rewriting but also lets me explore some possible futures for my writing.
So there you go.
Do you think this is a project worth pursuing? Is it something you would download if available as an ebook? Is it something you would pay for (likely a fairly nominal amount, maybe a couple bucks)?
As those who follow The Wonderart Thread may already know, I have written three short stories comprising a fantasy work that I currently call The Chronicles of Tana the Healer. Short version is that Tana is the daughter of her world's "Dark Lord" figure and played a key role in his downfall. That done, she studied to become a healer (think GP+midwife+pharmacist) and tried to build a new life and identity. But Tana's past comes back to haunt her over the course of these stories, leading to a final confrontation with that past.
What I am toying with right now is a rewrite/revision of those stories with a view to compiling them into a novelette (or maybe novella if the rewrite generates enough additional words) and creating an epub formatted ebook file. Still debating if I would sell it or just put it under a Creative Commons license of some form (probably one that does not allow editing and requires attribution) and post it somewhere for people to download. I use Google Docs to write and it can export an epub (somewhat badly but I am learning how to do it better) so it is not that hard to do.
So far, besides learning how to create and edit epubs, I have been restructuring things. I had a fair bit of "flashbacks" to fill in the back story about Tana and her father, but I am now compiling that material into a prologue. There's also some redundancy between chapters since these were originally standalone short stories published over about eight months so I had to provide bits of information multiple times to keep them standalone. I will clean that up.
One learning on the epub front: All e-reader apps are not created equal. I started out testing my epubs in Readera, a free e-reader from the Google Play store that I use on my reading tab for both epubs and pdfs. However, I found it was having some formatting issues, esp. with my title page. Then I imported the epub into the Kobo app from Rakutan, which can import external pdfs as well as reading stuff from their store, and it formatted much better there.
And I am, of course, looking for new stories to write. Just having trouble getting something going which is why I decided to work on this project. It does require some new writing and rewriting but also lets me explore some possible futures for my writing.
So there you go.
Do you think this is a project worth pursuing? Is it something you would download if available as an ebook? Is it something you would pay for (likely a fairly nominal amount, maybe a couple bucks)?
