Looking for a collaborator

[EbonHawk]

Greetings,

I am looking for a collaborator and an editor to join the work on a novella...

Here are some basic details.

For the last couple of years I have been writing a novella centered around a group of characters (lead by a particular female). Their adventures take place in a dark fantasy world written with a considerable emphasis on realism and filled with sex, intrigue, adult themes and violence. In short, it is not meant to be a fairy tale.

While sex is quite frequent and descriptive it is my intention to ensure that the final result is a fantasy story with sex and not a sex story with some fantasies in it (hopefully this makes sense).

The world itself is loosely based on the concept of Greyhawk D&D and possess many fantastic aspects. However it is my wish not to borrow or rely on them too heavily, for I would like the reader to enjoy the characters and their actions and not get lost in the magical gimmicks they may have access to.

Finally, while certain ideas and concepts are set in stone (at least where some important elements are concerned) I am more than willing to compromise and remain open to new ideas and directions.

I would be happy to provide some additional details to anyone interested in exploring the collaboration opportunities.

Kind Regards
EH

 

[JackLuis]

How long (# words) is the story, about?

I have a similar story I've been working on for two years, next month.

It is a "future History" kind of thing and has lots of sex, but the feedback says that the people like the story better than the sex. I don't believe them because I get much better scores if Josh scores big, and lower scores if he just 'plays around".

 

[EbonHawk]

Well the story has about 80 pages now... and I have enough ideas to make it go to 800.
The problem is going there...

Mind you I do consider it to be an outgoing work, designed to be told in parts with some characters transitioning over to future parts and other... expiring.
I remain open to many ideas and very flexible where the directions are concerned. That being said the female character in question is a protagonist though there are scores of other important characters about.

The nature or perhaps a format in which the story is being written, along the lines of loosely connected chapters sharing general events, time line progress and characters allows for mergers, modifications and other similar experiments without compromising the general ideas behind it.

In short, the protagonist is a leader of a criminal organization as well as a face woman for its activities within a free city, one with few rules, where coin and power rules supreme. Such environment breads opportunities for many and those become killers, murderers, heroes, bed fellows and the like.

Hope this provides some additional background.
I would be happy to offer some fragments for reading but only for those seriously interested.

I suppose it is worth saying that I write for myself (mostly) I do not seek to be published or promoted (though I do not discard such options) what I do seek is to control the integrity of the story and its characters (the story may have whores in it but I am not one of them if you follow my meaning).

...and like I have said, I am looking for a collaborator and partner... equal share is certainly available (with some limits where certain characters are concerned).

Kind Regards
EH

 

[Darkniciad]

Sounds a bit like the Duchy of Cratel -- and especially the city of Fightershaven -- in my world.

I can't even manage to get my own stories out in anything resembling a timely manner of late, though

 

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[EbonHawk]

As you might recall from my previous comments I value realism and "believability" in any written work (or in any work for that matter).

With that in mind I needed a setting that offered a city (at this stage a considerable amount of the story takes place in a cityscape) that was large enough that individuals could exercise their vices without worrying of running into each other on daily basis. Therefore I needed a big city (for cities in medieval times on which fantasy settings are based were not the mega cities we live in and know today)...

I also needed a city that is considered a free port, one that is run by merchant council (Greyhawk, Waterdeep all fit the bill), places like those allowed me to offer my characters the setting they needed where it was the coin, the merchant cartels and not a particular country or flag that dictated the turn of events. Some European cities were classified as such free ports during medieval times but I was looking for a fantasy setting, Fareun (Waterdeep) was/is too magic intensive and already contained entirely too much stories developed in... so I chose the Greyhawk (both city and setting) as a basis for the idea. However story itself makes no references to any of those names, the city is simply called the city (for it requires no other name) and the political structure allows for what I need it to do all while maintaining the realism.

In addition to the above I wanted a limited introduction of fantasy elements such as magic (though it is very low) and fantastic creatures (elves, orcs and the like) in turn those are more akin of races of man rather that species in itself (and are rarely, if ever called that). Of course they do lend the typical elements expected from them to the story (elven beauty, orcish roughness and violence and so forth).

Finally, as mentioned, magic was limited considerably... it's extend stopping at potions that aid healing and mending of wounds and bones but do not fix them instantly. Poisons and antidotes that kill and protect withing minutes. Jewelery that offers warding but not total protection. In short magic became a tool that aids the characters in their adventures and not means by which alone they are able to overcome obstacles. Of course certain more powerful magical elements do exist as part of the story that lend character or two some extraordinary powers, but those remain unexplained and introduced in a way that presents them both as a gift and a curse.

Hope this helps...

 

[EbonHawk]

No interest then?

 

[Darkniciad]

Not many fantasy writers hereabouts, I'm afraid.

 

[sr71plt]

I think you are too far along in formulating your concepts for a "collaborator" to come into the picture, Ebon. A collaborator most likely would want more equality in the concept formulation from the get go.