From Morguefile For years now I've been "writing a novel." I put that in quotes because I've started at least six different novels, all set in the same fantasy world, none of them have gone beyond a dozen or so chapters. The world is now well fleshed out in my mind (and in, quite literally, hundreds if not thousands of pages of notes and manuscript pages), populated with people who, while not "real" to me are at least as well developed characters as any in other novels that I have read, kingdoms and cities and towns and a map and...well, you get the idea. Over the past couple weeks (it began a couple weeks ago when I took a week of vacation) I've had a bit of a creative upshot in the "I'm writing a novel" arena. I've outlined the major points of the story, I have a beginning, middle and end (and sequel, of course - it's epic fantasy, after all, so it would have to be a series), I have the major characters in place, some of t...