this is mostly just to say stuff.
I've realized that instead of epic fantasy like EUOL writes, I've realized my last two novels have been Young Adult low fantasy. The current one even focuses on a romance. Where the heck did that come from? When have I read this stuff? Maybe I should, so I'm more familiar with it.
Anyway, the king and the queen are finally hooking up. IN that, the queen actually thinks the king is a good guy, but still won't sleep with him, even though they're married (hey, it's a big transition). It's only a step away from that, though. Then everything's happy, right?
If I was writing a full romance, this would be a good time for the queen to say some things that hurt the king's feelings, so that she has to do her share of courting to get him back. Nice balance, I think. However, I think I want to get into the magic bit.
So the thing is, she *has* been keeping things from the King. And well, she thought he was a little bit insane and cruel, which she's gotten over but hasn't admitted the true extent of her feelings. So I'm working on a way to have all that come out without driving my shy male hero away. I must be delicate. Feel free to post opinions on it. I don't want to spend a lot of time (ie, word count) on this, cuz I want to get into the whole breaking the curse bit where they sacrifice for each other.
On the other hand, perhaps I need to do that for word count. I'm only halfway through the 50k, and I can think of something like 4 or 5 scenes. I'm thinking that at most will cover 10k words.
but I'll hold it in reserve. That and a detailed prologue/prequel about the origin of hte curse. It'd sort of turn the manuscript into two novellas, but the first one (chronologically) wouldn't end with much resolution so they'd kind of need to be smacked together.
It's kind of funny that the prequel is the shorter/more lightly treated of the two. Because the legends about the man who was cursed first are fairly exhaustive and would provide for a lot of action and more epic fantasy. Which brings me back to my first thought. How they heck did I choose this little romance as the bit I wrote about?