In this installment, I show you the layout of the city of Castelmaine. I hope I got it across well enough. It's essentially a pizza that has been cut into quarters, with a tower at the middle. This whole arrangement is in the middle of a flooded crater. It's a bustling city, something I've never been too great at describing with my usual style of writing. I'm not a great descriptive writer. I usually prefer to
just lay out the basics and let the reader fill in the gaps, but with
this I'm trying to be a bit more descriptive than perhaps I normally
would. I hope it's not too weirdly written.
For a long time I pondered on how to introduce a minotaur as a main character. I needed to make sure the readers understood that I meant 'minotaur' literally, not as some kind of term, but at the same time, I didn't want to give a huge description of exactly what I meant. For me, it's important that the reader understands what is 'natural' (insofar as the word can be applied) in a fantasy world. I felt that a large and detailed description would bog down the prose and detract from that feeling of 'norm'. Again, I hope I managed to get it across okay.
