My other story thread!
It's All Mercenary is an old project. If you look at the timestamp on the original postings, it's been almost ten years. (eep!) The premise was a spin on the classic questing tale, with characters that deliberately stomp on their stereotypes. The mercenary talks to his horse and is our sarcastic narrator. The barbarian is a scholar. The elf is actually a horrendous archer, and so on. I still love the concept and am determined to finish it. The one marked First Draft is actually quite a ways into the story, perhaps somewhere around halfway. (I discovery write, so I'm not entirely sure.) I rewrote the first 3 chapters for a Strongest Start contest that drastically differ in tone, which I felt was both good and bad.
The original is very much all over the place, although the humor is brilliant at times, if I do say so myself. My second iteration is much more streamlined, but my main character is lacking that spark, although the other characters I introduce seem more fleshed out. I want to find a happy medium between the two.
