Readings and Writings and What Not

[kriadydragon]

Heh, don't ask me why but I was thinking of all the classical authors who could be considered whumpers.

Charles Dickens whose Smike from Nicholas Nickleby was the inspiration not only for my character Amrin but also for what I put Amrin through (which I actually feel bad about, actually).

Alexander Dumas

Robert Louis Stevenson (I only read Kidnapped but it had some nice whump).

Tolkein, of course.

And that's all I could really think of though I know I'm probably forgetting a few. I would add Poe but I think he was more into angst than H/C ;P

I think I'm starting to lose interest in reading Young Adult novels. As much as I love the variety YA fantasy offers, the writing style often leaves me wanting. The problem is, YA novels I can trust not to break out with random sex scenes. It's not so much the sex itself that bothers me but you can never say if it'll be fade-to-black or so explicit the first sentence alone has be reaching for the brain bleach, and that makes me wary with adult novels.

And it's so hard to find adult novels that take fantasy beyond elves, dwarves and wizards. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Tolkein-esque type worlds and love urban fantasy, but these days I've been craving books that go crazy with the fantasy. Books like the Alchemaster's Apprentice - not blow-you-away-awesome but wonderfully quirky, or Domino Men, or Neverwhere, or Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero. Stories that don't just think out of the box but blow the box up and put it back together as something else entirely.

Which has a lot to do with my own writing preferences. I adore taking fantasy to new and strange places and really want to read stories that do the same, but finding it is tricky (because I'm also a very character-oriented reader who loves action/adventure, and more often than not seem to find only stories more interested in world-building and politics than character-development).

So after much struggling with my WC fic exchange fic that just kept going and going with no end in sight... I finally scrapped it for a much better idea, one that isn't trying to be a chapter story, and I'm really enjoying writing it. Why it took me so long to come up with this idea after wracking my brain for months, I have no idea

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[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Awesome :D I really want to read more adult oriented novels but I don't trust them since a lot of authors like to stick their heads neck-deep in the gutter, and I'm sick of it.