/lit/ - Literature

I just want a good old fashioned fantasy with a masculine protagonist who does masculine shit.

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Thank you for your time and consideration, anon. I appreciate it.

I was thinking around 15,000 words or so, but there really is no limit. I'm mostly writing this piece as an exercise to get back in the swing of things, considering I haven't written anything other than a shitpost in years. I'm not afraid to make it drawn out if I need to, so long as I actually stick to it and finish it.

Just as you've suggested, I was kind of banking on my protagonist and setting being interesting enough to make this piece worthwhile. I spent a lot of time worldbuilding and fleshing out an interesting "not-hyboria" that I wanted to write some stories in, and my main goal for this story is to flesh out a character that I've been thinking about since I was a kid. I have a sort of Conan "clone" that I've daydreamed about and wrote stories about since I was a kid, I'm going to write him in as the protag and build on him as I go.

If this story turns out to be a success, I will just take to writing a series of short stories about him as a hobby. (I might upload them to something like Fictionpress or make a small site dedicated his stories.)

Any tips on writing Sword and Sorcery literature? Likewise, any advice on writing erotic fiction?

I've been reading a lot of Robert Jordan's Conan Chronicles, and I really like that he's found the median between classical fantasy and a more modern style.

I'd like to write a series of short stories about a massive barbarian that fights wizards, steals treasure from ancient monsters, and ravages the wives of kings and plump slave girls.