Cheehwawa
06-23-2008, 08:23 PM
Hey everyone, this is my first post in Litnet, but I'm by no means new to the land of forums :)
I was looking for a little advice on a writing project I've been working on for a few years, it's called Osiris. The story will be an epic, you could compare it in theme to the Odyssey or Iliad (maybe even in length too, which intimidates me).
The basic story follows Osiris, Isis, Horus and Anubis - as well as some other key characters - as they attempt to unify the early Roman Kingdoms in time for the Battle of Ragnarok. If you want to read about the backstory to this installment, Osiris, look at the bottom of this post...
Last night I did a very base outline of the story - I have about 50 subjects I'd like to touch on, which would be about the length of a "Book" of the Iliad (or 15-20 pages in normal novel format, I think).
Do you think a work like this would be best split up and written with lots of detail as a normal novel, possibly over a few installments.
Or
Do you think it would be better written in a more "epic" style, since a lot of the action would be similar to that found in Greek Epics...
I have my own opinions on this, it would just be nice to know what some other people have to say about it, if you care to do so...
Background on Osiris
I think that there's just way too much information I have written up for this to make sense to all of you in a little summary like this, but here it goes. The background for the story:
Ever since 120,000 years BP, a small faction of Grey aliens inhabited Earth (orbited, rather) until one day, their leader shed his physical body and his soul became a powerful God - two Gods, actually. His good half became Adonai, the evil half Beelzebub.
For years they influenced mankind until roughly 2200, when Earth is destroyed. Adonai rescued some humans in his ships the Ark and the Pyrrha. The Pyrrha was lost when it strayed awoutside of the Ark's time dilating warp bubble and crashed on a world named Eden in the Epsilon Eridani system (this is a different story) and the Ark continued to the the Andromeda Galaxy's outer ring, where it lands on an Earth-like world about the size of Mercury, orbiting a Gas Giant.
While on this millenia-long trip (time dilation made it so that only a few hundred years passed in "real time," but in the ships, many millenia have passed) some of the humans aboard have evolved. They exhibited either a TITAN or ANGEL gene, the Titans took control and used the Angels as their pawns, and they killed off the normal humans.
They then went out and inhabited Terra while Adonai, disguisted by his peers' slaughter of innocents, continues his quest toward the Galaxy's core alone, now taking the Ark with him. The Titans use his Gene Malipulator technology to create many races, such as Taurians (humanoid bulls), Lykans (humanoid wolves), Centaurs, Carcharodonians (humanoid great white sharks) and Terrans - Terrans are like normal humans.
The Titans also birthed a new race of humans, the Olympians, when they mated with the Angels. The Olympians posess the GOD gene, which Adonai posessed and allowed him to ascend into an elemental being. The Olympians overthrew their parents and freed the Angels. The Titans' last action was to create the Demon race, then they destroyed the Gene Manipulator.
Ages pass and civilization comes to Terra through the Heroic Age, a 600 year long age which largely parallels the stories of myth from greek mythology (the planet's central continent has a resemblance to the Mediterranean) - it ends abruptly with the siege of Troy. Our hero dies here for his first time; he is Achilles.
He's reborn - along with many other noble heroes such as Chiron and Heracles and Neoptolemus - in a distant continent named Asphodel. Here, they are trained continuously for a prophecized future event known as Ragnarok where Gods and Demons will kill eachother: the Olympians hope that mankind can join in on the side of the Gods, breaking the inevitable stalemate.
Ragnarok was prophecized after Beelzebub arrived on the world (he escaped Earth's destruction, and followed Adonai to look for fresh taintable souls) and fused to the Olympian named Hades, who felt betrayed and abaonded by his brethren. This new powerful being is referred to as the Necromancer, he rallies the Demons and creates an Army of the Dead to do his bidding.
They are known as the Revenant, and they inhabit a region known as Lower Hades - connected to Upper Hades by a land-bridge named Dis. In Upper Hades (the far-eastern continent) resides the tribal species of hostile beings, such as Orks, Taurians, Saurians, Gorgons, etc.
The Gods of the race which inhabited this planet 30,000 years ago - now known only as the Ancients - arise, allying with the Olympians. They are the Ba'al, and parallel the Egyptian Gods.
These races are united under Samael, the Saurian King, after he is strengthened by an Ancient, evil God named Set when he is fused to him. Samael forms a pact with the Necromancer, and they start trying to make Ragnarok arrive faster by attacking the Gods any chance they get.
When a promising pair of brothers - Romulus and Remus - seem destined for power, the Olympians send their greatest warriors to assist them. They are Achilles, Penethislea (Amazon), Diomedes and Neoptolemus. These warriors are blessed by a Ba'al god, who inhabits their body as their protective aura, strengthening them physically and mentally.
Osiris inhabits Achilles, Isis inhabits inhabits Penethislea, Anubis inhabits Diomedes and Neoptolemus. They are known as the Reapers; under them are other reborn heroes of old such as Adonis and Hippolyta, who are not blessed by a god, but still are powerful. They become Osiris' Myrmidons.
I was looking for a little advice on a writing project I've been working on for a few years, it's called Osiris. The story will be an epic, you could compare it in theme to the Odyssey or Iliad (maybe even in length too, which intimidates me).
The basic story follows Osiris, Isis, Horus and Anubis - as well as some other key characters - as they attempt to unify the early Roman Kingdoms in time for the Battle of Ragnarok. If you want to read about the backstory to this installment, Osiris, look at the bottom of this post...
Last night I did a very base outline of the story - I have about 50 subjects I'd like to touch on, which would be about the length of a "Book" of the Iliad (or 15-20 pages in normal novel format, I think).
Do you think a work like this would be best split up and written with lots of detail as a normal novel, possibly over a few installments.
Or
Do you think it would be better written in a more "epic" style, since a lot of the action would be similar to that found in Greek Epics...
I have my own opinions on this, it would just be nice to know what some other people have to say about it, if you care to do so...
Background on Osiris
I think that there's just way too much information I have written up for this to make sense to all of you in a little summary like this, but here it goes. The background for the story:
Ever since 120,000 years BP, a small faction of Grey aliens inhabited Earth (orbited, rather) until one day, their leader shed his physical body and his soul became a powerful God - two Gods, actually. His good half became Adonai, the evil half Beelzebub.
For years they influenced mankind until roughly 2200, when Earth is destroyed. Adonai rescued some humans in his ships the Ark and the Pyrrha. The Pyrrha was lost when it strayed awoutside of the Ark's time dilating warp bubble and crashed on a world named Eden in the Epsilon Eridani system (this is a different story) and the Ark continued to the the Andromeda Galaxy's outer ring, where it lands on an Earth-like world about the size of Mercury, orbiting a Gas Giant.
While on this millenia-long trip (time dilation made it so that only a few hundred years passed in "real time," but in the ships, many millenia have passed) some of the humans aboard have evolved. They exhibited either a TITAN or ANGEL gene, the Titans took control and used the Angels as their pawns, and they killed off the normal humans.
They then went out and inhabited Terra while Adonai, disguisted by his peers' slaughter of innocents, continues his quest toward the Galaxy's core alone, now taking the Ark with him. The Titans use his Gene Malipulator technology to create many races, such as Taurians (humanoid bulls), Lykans (humanoid wolves), Centaurs, Carcharodonians (humanoid great white sharks) and Terrans - Terrans are like normal humans.
The Titans also birthed a new race of humans, the Olympians, when they mated with the Angels. The Olympians posess the GOD gene, which Adonai posessed and allowed him to ascend into an elemental being. The Olympians overthrew their parents and freed the Angels. The Titans' last action was to create the Demon race, then they destroyed the Gene Manipulator.
Ages pass and civilization comes to Terra through the Heroic Age, a 600 year long age which largely parallels the stories of myth from greek mythology (the planet's central continent has a resemblance to the Mediterranean) - it ends abruptly with the siege of Troy. Our hero dies here for his first time; he is Achilles.
He's reborn - along with many other noble heroes such as Chiron and Heracles and Neoptolemus - in a distant continent named Asphodel. Here, they are trained continuously for a prophecized future event known as Ragnarok where Gods and Demons will kill eachother: the Olympians hope that mankind can join in on the side of the Gods, breaking the inevitable stalemate.
Ragnarok was prophecized after Beelzebub arrived on the world (he escaped Earth's destruction, and followed Adonai to look for fresh taintable souls) and fused to the Olympian named Hades, who felt betrayed and abaonded by his brethren. This new powerful being is referred to as the Necromancer, he rallies the Demons and creates an Army of the Dead to do his bidding.
They are known as the Revenant, and they inhabit a region known as Lower Hades - connected to Upper Hades by a land-bridge named Dis. In Upper Hades (the far-eastern continent) resides the tribal species of hostile beings, such as Orks, Taurians, Saurians, Gorgons, etc.
The Gods of the race which inhabited this planet 30,000 years ago - now known only as the Ancients - arise, allying with the Olympians. They are the Ba'al, and parallel the Egyptian Gods.
These races are united under Samael, the Saurian King, after he is strengthened by an Ancient, evil God named Set when he is fused to him. Samael forms a pact with the Necromancer, and they start trying to make Ragnarok arrive faster by attacking the Gods any chance they get.
When a promising pair of brothers - Romulus and Remus - seem destined for power, the Olympians send their greatest warriors to assist them. They are Achilles, Penethislea (Amazon), Diomedes and Neoptolemus. These warriors are blessed by a Ba'al god, who inhabits their body as their protective aura, strengthening them physically and mentally.
Osiris inhabits Achilles, Isis inhabits inhabits Penethislea, Anubis inhabits Diomedes and Neoptolemus. They are known as the Reapers; under them are other reborn heroes of old such as Adonis and Hippolyta, who are not blessed by a god, but still are powerful. They become Osiris' Myrmidons.