So apparently I misunderstood the prompt and just gave you a cool book title? Because the book exists, and it's part of a YA high fantasy series. Which is why this is so eerie:
I have this problem where I want to write the kinds of books I loved as a kid and also wanted to write as a kid but now I'm older and Know Things about Government and People and The Importance of Logical Worldbuilding and It Is Lazy To Just Write Generic Fantasy Without Having Some Interesting Underpinnings and scale is hard because it's like look, I just want to write about these two countries, but it's not like it's they're Haiti and the Dominican Republic, obviously they have neighbors that probably play some kind of role in their international interactions, and if you have magic you don't necessarily have the excuse of "well people usually don't travel more than ten miles away" for keeping things limited and anyway part of the fun of generic fantasy is going to all sorts of different places and Journeys and Stew and you have to be so much cleverer to write this than I thought you did.
It is literally about adjacent countries and their governments and people in them and basically fantastic worldbuilding. No dragons, though.
AHAHAHAHAHA your dad! I feel terrible for fourteen-year-old you but that is still hilarious :D
(I'm not the only one annoyed by that in Tamora Pierce! Yes. Thank you.)
how often do you read about female kickbutt heroines being like "uuuuuuuuuuuugh I really can't fight today the cramps are too bad"?
Well, never, but since when do they show any sign of physical weakness at all? It's part of a bigger problem, I think. But yeah, I would imagine that subtlety is really difficult. Also, maybe it's something that third-person narration wouldn't necessarily know? Or that it would bring more of an intimacy into a more distant narration, which would possibly be jarring? I have to think about that more.
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Date: 2012-08-09 03:24 am (UTC)I have this problem where I want to write the kinds of books I loved as a kid and also wanted to write as a kid but now I'm older and Know Things about Government and People and The Importance of Logical Worldbuilding and It Is Lazy To Just Write Generic Fantasy Without Having Some Interesting Underpinnings and scale is hard because it's like look, I just want to write about these two countries, but it's not like it's they're Haiti and the Dominican Republic, obviously they have neighbors that probably play some kind of role in their international interactions, and if you have magic you don't necessarily have the excuse of "well people usually don't travel more than ten miles away" for keeping things limited and anyway part of the fun of generic fantasy is going to all sorts of different places and Journeys and Stew and you have to be so much cleverer to write this than I thought you did.
It is literally about adjacent countries and their governments and people in them and basically fantastic worldbuilding. No dragons, though.
AHAHAHAHAHA your dad! I feel terrible for fourteen-year-old you but that is still hilarious :D
(I'm not the only one annoyed by that in Tamora Pierce! Yes. Thank you.)
how often do you read about female kickbutt heroines being like "uuuuuuuuuuuugh I really can't fight today the cramps are too bad"?
Well, never, but since when do they show any sign of physical weakness at all? It's part of a bigger problem, I think. But yeah, I would imagine that subtlety is really difficult. Also, maybe it's something that third-person narration wouldn't necessarily know? Or that it would bring more of an intimacy into a more distant narration, which would possibly be jarring? I have to think about that more.