Time to make a post about my project! I wrote a little on it before (in the tags lol), but here is the idea: stone age/early neolithic period in a fantasy genre. I want to explore the stories and myths of ancient civilizations (which possibly trace back to this period) + homo sapien & Neanderthal interaction!
It’s fun to think of this time period with fantastical creatures like dragons, mermaids, and sea monsters in them. Couple that with ancient megafauna!
Art historians often speculate that cave art & stone age sculptures had a spiritual function. It had me thinking about how magic and curses were an important element in ancient civilizations’ stories (think even in biblical text). So where did this all originate from, so much that people would have great experience with them? It must be a very very ancient unknown past, probably the stone age period of humanity. This time period has huge potential for fantasy exploration! I want to explore all these ideas and make a story out of them. Here are some illustrations I made, with more under the cut, featuring the so far only OC (placeholder name for now is Tam. Short and simple) and his father-figure Neanderthal friend! I have a bit of a story in mind and other characters, but nothing concrete while I continue world-building. I will share more as I continue developing!
It’s been just about a year since I started taking this project seriously!😳 And I still don’t really have a story… I focused on research last summer, and developing some lore. I jot down plotlines when they come to me but I haven’t settled on anything. Nothing felt right, or made me think “yes, that’s the story I want to tell!”. I do get pretty excited about an idea when it comes, and it does help get more lore down. But again, no story yet 😔
I do love coming up with scenarios involving characters and certain situations, just didn’t know what brought them there.
Writer friends! how do you construct your stories/plots?
2 + years since development began! So here is an update! + one new art.
Is there a 'story' now? Yes! There are themes, beginning, middle, and end planned out. I have been rewriting the beginning over and over again, but the end result of it is always the same. Just experimenting with different approaches to introducing the world and characters before the thick plot is set in motion.
The villain is there and major characters are fleshed out. As for most subplots and other elements that bring the story together, I have not worked on it and plan to discovery write it. The jumbled threads often come together while I'm in the depths of writing a scene (I found out this happens within the past year haha). I suddenly get ideas on how/where the story should go or how a certain scene can add to character development/themes. This is actually how I got most of the story down now 😂. I'm removing and adding things as I go. But so far, it's looking good! And I can't wait to get it all done and ready for the world to see!
My plan is to have all of these things figured out by the end of the year. So that by 2025, I could start scripting and drawing the actual graphic novel. Wish me luck!
