story idea!

[deird1]

I suddenly want to write a medieval, low fantasy epic. You know the one: where Our Hero leaves the farmstead on an epic quest to find their destiny and save the world.

Only... in this case, Our Hero is a thirty-something woman, who leaves the kids behind on the farmstead (with some other adults, don't worry), and straps on the two-month infant so she can take him with her, on her epic quest to find her destiny and save the world.

The desire to write this story is not purely because I am a thirty-something woman with young children. It's also because the premise immediately makes me react with "But... why? Why would she do that? What would be important enough that she'd leave her kids behind? And how? How would she save the world while also lugging a baby around with her?"



I suddenly have plot. Hmm...

Comments

[kryptonitemonkey]

I remember an author once saying that the reason why the heroes are so often children/young adults is because they have no attachments to keep them from going out adventuring the same way that older people typically do. Not to mention they rarely have the wisdom to go, "that's dumb, so I won't try".