I can finally talk about it.
My caveman fantasy series.
I genuinely can’t remember the first time I might’ve brought it up to my readers, sometime in 2019. It’s strange, the idea feels older than that, but I think that’s only because 2019 now feels like it was 6 years ago. The past two years have been FUUUUUCKED.
Anyway.
So, first of all, why do I keep specifically calling it my ‘caveman fantasy series’? There is a good reason. Not because it’s a fantasy scenario about stone age people, but because it’s about, specifically, a fantasy realm that includes monsters and non-human races and magic, but is set during their version of the stone age.
Originally, I wanted to just do a straight-up stone age harem. Someday, I still might. But I ran into a problem. Basically, I’d need to do a lot of research in order to get it right. Which takes way more time and effort than what I normally write. However, I feel like most of my readers simply wouldn’t care if I got little details wrong about some story taking place 30,000 years ago. A lot of readers probably wouldn’t even notice. And the amount of research I’d have to do to satisfy the people who would notice and get upset with things like ‘hey this plant didn’t exist back then’ or ‘this tool actually didn’t arrive until the year 15,000 BCE’, you know, stuff like that, would be pretty monumental. And, again, probably most readers wouldn’t notice or even care. I mean, I wouldn’t. I’m not really that discerning of a reader or knowledgeable in anthropology.
For awhile, this had me sort of caught. I could say ‘fuck it’ and just write what made sense and basically just try to keep it reasonable in terms of ‘yeah this feels like the stone age’, which I still might do someday, but ultimately I came to the decision to write a story about stone age people, but in a fantasy setting. That way, the only logic I need to adhere to is the internal consistency of the world I establish.
So now that we’ve got that out of the way, what is RAW about?
Largely, it’s about a man on an island with few memories of who he was before, his struggle to simply stay alive (at first), and the hot, hot women he meets and fucks along the way. Some are human, some are decidedly inhuman. There are absolutely monster girls in this one.
Here’s a quick list of stuff the series focuses on.
Survival
Settlement Building
Adventuring
Tribal Warfare
Monster Fighting
Fucking (obviously) & Relationships
I don’t really want to give anymore away than that, but let’s say that I’ve established my setting, its history, and the various factions vying for control of it. It’s going to start simple and grow large.
Raw is definitely less free-form than A Warm Place. I’m honestly super excited about it because this is going to be the first time I’ve ever really attempted to tackle a big, epic series, had a solid plan, and was not constrained by anything prior. Everything I wrote before Haven was just trilogies, sometimes quadrilogies, and I just kinda wrote them. Even when I started Haven, I definitely had ideas, but not a solid overall plan from the beginning. With A Warm Place, I had more of a plan, but it was forced to be built around the fact that I was technically doing a rewrite, based on previously established material that I wanted to respect.
Raw is all new. Brand new story, brand new characters, brand new universe. I’ve been thinking about it for about two years now. I’ve got big plans for it, though with how A Warm Place kept fluctuating and shifting, I’m reluctant to say how big.
For now, I’ll just plan and write, write and plan, and we’ll see how it comes out. I’m very excited.