So, for those of you who keep track of me mostly through this blog, this update may seem a little out of the blue. "Testament? What's Testament?" I had (still have?) a tiny mention of it on one page and nothing else.
Testament is my pet project, my exploration into high fantasy. And I haven't really talked about it here much because, well, this is very prominently a fanfiction site. So I became uncomfortable whenever I started to talk about Testament here. Additionally, I want to make sure I get all the "rewrites" done before I release it into the wild. I can't afford to get stuck in rewrite hell with Testament the way I did with LotE. Over the last few years, I avoided people with similar interests to mine, because people with common interests and different mindsets annoyed me more than people with different interests and common mindsets. This was an grave mistake, because as a result, I don't have enough experience with the expectations of fantasy readers: which tropes are considered cliched, which tropes are fundamental, which tropes are considered offensive, etc. Is it okay if 'a' knight rescues 'a' princess? Do all princes have to be jerks? Is it okay to portray the human race as good? Does everything from nature have to be holy? |
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April 2021
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