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How did your early writing help you with imagery & the senses (particularly smell and sound) today?
What differences do you see with writing imagery in the perspective of humans, and in the perspective of animals?
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For anyone unfamiliar with my early writing, this merits a bit of an introduction. The first thing I ever wrote was my six-book Shelha series, which tops 530k words and took me nine years to finish. You can find more details in Q3 of this Q&A; I'll stick to the salient points here!
Shelha's whole cast is nonhuman. And I'm not talking elves or dwarves or vampires—I'm talking non-humanoid animals with paws and wings and teeth and fur, and they're all made-up. In a perfect demonstration of why I am going into a career in STEM instead of writing (Q5, haha), I came up with over 100 different species of mammals, birds, plants, and entire new phylogenetic categories of organisms, complete with evolutionary trees and detailed physiological and behavioral characteristics. Tl;dr, I'm a nerd.
There are no humans in Shelha. There are no humanoids in Shelha. In short, between the first and second drafts of those books, I wrote some 1.25M words from the perspective of more than 20 animal characters across at least a dozen species, all making their home in a human-untouched wilderness whose many landscapes were both familiar and foreign to me.
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