William Faulkner once gave this piece of writing advice: "In writing, you must kill your darlings." This refers to those parts of a story that the writer has fallen in love with but aren't needed for the story anymore and can perhaps even be distracting to the reader. It can be a character, a phrase, an image, a joke, or in this case, a monastery. We are now entering a new storyline for our heroes, the Unnamed Royal Adventuring Company #47. Buckle in for....
THE EMPIRE OF THE MITHRIL SKULLS
Take care,
~Rob
A moment of silence for what was and could have been…
And what happened to all the ghosts?
It’s still smoldering. Is the dragon still around?
Empire of the Mithril Skulls, sounds like a necromancy spell that infuses armor into the bones of skeleton warriors to make them stronger. Skeletons with mithril skulls would be much harder to destroy (have to say destroy instead of kill, can’t kill something that is already dead).
Huh. Things I should notice more on this website, like the little smiley face in the bottom left corner of the background when the page is scrolled all the way down.
Anyway, let’s hope there’s survivors in the temple, and pray that Day’l isn’t behind this, though he has the highest probability of doing this.
Echoes of Indiana Jones in that title?
@Futbol13 – Oh, Dear God, No! No psychic Nazis, no surviving nukes by climbing inside a refrigerator, no Shia LeBouf. I would never do that to you guys.:)
Ok, as long as there’s no Shia LeBouf. 🙂
“Destroy everything that isn’t relevant to the future story” is quite possibly the WORST writing advice I have ever heard. If you do that, there’s no life to the world in which the story takes place, there is only ever what is happening at the moment. If readers are distracted by something that happened in the past while reading the newer stuff it’s because the newer stuff isn’t as engaging; the solution to which is to take cues from what was in the past to improve what’s going on rather than burn all your bridges out of spite. If the reader is getting ‘distracted’ by it in the sense of just caring especially much about it, that’s investment, which is GOOD.
I’m not criticising YOU per se. I’m sure good stories can come out of the monastery being destroyed; but destroying it just because its existence is somehow detrimental to the parts of the story that don’t involve it is laughable.