Heh, some words are just more fun to say than others. Concubine is a good word. Zealot still ranks as one of my top ten, though I think i would have to come up with the other nine.
I attempted to write the Merchant's concubine a while back, but her story through the eyes of some other guy. I didn't go quite as I wanted it to and it drove me to a stop, I may have to rethink it and write from her perspective to make her story work.
Problem is I am still not sure why most of the characters are actually important for the story yet. Each will represent good and bad things of the Gimyrresh/Imperial Culture, but... what?
That was my first thought and in my current plans will probably be the first actual chapter in the book (after the Prologue). I am hesitant as I think it will be a harder chapter to write. One because it is where I setup the religious conotations to the setting as well as the politics involved with the war that has just been going on and basically hint at why the supernatural/spiritual vengence destroyes Gimyrresh. I also want to really create a incredibly strong and religious female character. I am not sure I am up to the task yet, though I am excited to see what I can do. I think she will be an amazing character nonetheless.
In that case, you may want to hold off on writing her until you've established some other facets of this world and gotten some experience writing about it. Are you writing one chapter about each character or in his/her point of view? Sounds cool.
And hooray for strong female characters. I'm actually working with a priestess in the fantasy story I'm supposed to be writing right now; the idea is that she'll get her own full story later, and I'm looking forward to writing it. (She serves the god of honorable warfare, so she kicks ass, too.)
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I attempted to write the Merchant's concubine a while back, but her story through the eyes of some other guy. I didn't go quite as I wanted it to and it drove me to a stop, I may have to rethink it and write from her perspective to make her story work.
Problem is I am still not sure why most of the characters are actually important for the story yet. Each will represent good and bad things of the Gimyrresh/Imperial Culture, but... what?
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And hooray for strong female characters. I'm actually working with a priestess in the fantasy story I'm supposed to be writing right now; the idea is that she'll get her own full story later, and I'm looking forward to writing it. (She serves the god of honorable warfare, so she kicks ass, too.)
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