{"id":10698,"date":"2016-09-14T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2016-09-13T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T04:41:00","slug":"the-sword-keeper-1-0-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-sword-keeper-1-0-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sword Keeper 1.0 is finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been roughly four and a half years since I wrote the first word in\u00a0The Sword Keeper,<\/strong> and now the first draft is finally complete! I finished it on Monday\u00a0and promptly came down with the flu, which is why I’m only writing about it now.<\/p>\n

This is my first complete\u00a0fantasy novel, which is kind of a weird thing to realize. I started writing fantasy back in high school, but I never actually finished anything until college, and by then I was writing science fiction almost exclusively. Of course, the line between fantasy and science fiction is pretty fuzzy, especially the science fiction I tend to write, but still it’s a different set of tropes and a different kind of story.<\/p>\n

In terms of other fantasy books, this one is pretty light. It’s\u00a0just under 100k words, which makes it about 1\/3 to 1\/4\u00a0the size of a Brandon Sanderson novel. There’s magic,\u00a0and it does drive the story, but the magic system itself isn’t the main driving factor of the plot. No elves, no dwarves, no dragons.<\/p>\n

Instead, there’s an ancient order\u00a0of magic sword bearers, a secret brotherhood of dark mages, a prophecy about saving the world, and a tavern girl (not a farmboy) who turns out to be the chosen one. About half\u00a0of the fighting happens in the Void between the mortal and immortal realms. Oh, and the cost of magic is death.<\/p>\n

There’s no question that this book needs a lot of work before it’ll be ready to publish. That said, I’m really excited about it. If all goes well, I expect it to be out sometime next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been roughly four and a half years since I wrote the first word in\u00a0The Sword Keeper, and now the first draft is finally complete! I finished it on Monday\u00a0and promptly came down with the flu, which is why I’m only writing about it now. This is my first complete\u00a0fantasy novel, which is kind of… Continue reading The Sword Keeper 1.0 is finished!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[650,932],"tags":[376,223,155,63],"class_list":["post-10698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sk","category-twelfth-sword-trilogy","tag-epic-fantasy","tag-finishing","tag-rough-drafts","tag-triumphs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2My","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10699,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions\/10699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}