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"The Shoemaker's Daughter" is one of my favourite stories. Granted, it's not exactly the kind of story that would attract the average Tolkienfic reader: it deals with a bunch of OCs, it has an ungodly abundance of trivia and long, loving descriptions, and it's updated about once in a year or so. Still, I've hoped that at least the handful of people who seemed to like my other Halabor stories would be interested.
Well, not so much luck. The two recently posted chapters not only didn't get a single review (together), despite having been posted to four (!) different places, on SoA, they didn't even get a single hit! Yeah, hit counters can be depressing sometimes. On FF.Net and TFF at least they had a handful of hits.
I know, we aren't living in the times when people would be willing to crack open an epic novel - or start reading a fic of the same proportions. I know the reasons, and I'm sympathetic, really. It's still depressing, though.
Well, at least it hasn't attracted any malevolent "critics" yet, either. I guess I ought to count my blessings, small as they might be.
Well, not so much luck. The two recently posted chapters not only didn't get a single review (together), despite having been posted to four (!) different places, on SoA, they didn't even get a single hit! Yeah, hit counters can be depressing sometimes. On FF.Net and TFF at least they had a handful of hits.
I know, we aren't living in the times when people would be willing to crack open an epic novel - or start reading a fic of the same proportions. I know the reasons, and I'm sympathetic, really. It's still depressing, though.
Well, at least it hasn't attracted any malevolent "critics" yet, either. I guess I ought to count my blessings, small as they might be.
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I know, usually the story one likes best isn't the one the readers would like best. The complete disinterest is still a bit discouraging, though.
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For me, the whole Halabor-cycle is about the world-building part. Since I chose a really existing medieval town as a model (Yvoire in France), I had a solid basis on which to build the rest. Then I chose Cornish names for the Old Folk, so that they would have shared roots. Then I did an ungodly amount of research how many - and what sort of - craftsmen a town of that size would have needed, how those craftsmen worked in the Middle Ages and so on. Then I did just as much research on medieval life in general. And finally, I began to figure out the relations among a thousand or so characters, to draw family trees, set their individual ages... that sort of thing.
It's great fun. The finished parts are posted to the Otherworlds board (http://s4.invisionfree.com/Otherworlds/index.php?act=idx), in case you are interested. Scroll down the main page, and all this trivia is under the forum "The Halabor Game". It's unlikely that there will ever be a game, I'm afraid, but I store there these details if someone wants to find out more about Lord Orchald's town.
Oh, and by the way, thanks for the review! It made my whole day. :))