I is for Imprisoned in Stone

I is for Imprisoned in Stone

There was no doubt in my mind that the topic for the post would be the dark fantasy, Imprisoned in Stone. But what to say about it?

A blurb and excerpts is available by clicking on the cover. Either the one in the banner or embedded in the post. The magical equines the seisag were mentioned in the A-Z post, H is for Horses. I thought the turn's end celebration where horses and seisag danced with the sprites. But again, that tale was told in the post Welcome and Farewell.

Other ideas were considered and tossed, so a different tact was taken--what it took to create the novel.

Sword play is an accepted part of fantasy so that was nothing new to me by the time I started plotting out the novel. The biggest challenge in telling the tale was not the blood sacrifices or the darker element, but something more prosaic, getting the characters together. Each of the three main characters resided in a different part of the country. They had to be gotten together at a specific place and time, all the while building the relationships between them so that by the time they met physically for the first time, there was a relationship. An additional problem that had to be solved was Dylan, since he was imprisoned in a stone pillar, he couldn't physically move.

Plotting the movements quickly became so difficult I resurrected a flow-chart design from my earlier computer programming and system analysis days. Timelines laid out on a large sketch pad helped track the character's paths.



Imprisoned in Stone - universal buy link

 
Tomorrow’s topic is the game, Jardrese from the world of the Windmaster Novels. If you're following other blogs in the challenge, here's the master list of the other participants.
 

~ till next time, Helen