Daro, JamesWatkins, Kenneth2020-07-092020-07-092018(AlmaMMSId)9982594984602196https://hdl.handle.net/11244/325117The genre of my novel is Fantasy. The subgenre is Weird West. This novel showcases monsters and creatures set in a western world. This book is heavily influenced by high fantasy novels with shades of steampunk. Even though this project is set in a fantasy world, traditional fantasy plays a significant role. The Dark Elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore influenced the work significantly in form. Christie Golden Arthas book along with her other Warcraft novels influenced plot and characterization. Old western films like The Shootist and television shows like Gunsmoke along with Wagon Train guided the western style. First and foremost objective of the work is to create a compelling story. The second objective is to apply the lessons learned from this university. Surrenstrada: For Honor takes place in its own world. That in itself presents a challenge. Continuity proves challenging because the world needs to be consistent. The first step - create a world that possess a deep history. Things that will never hit the pages but provides the reader with immersion. Questions slow your writing because one always asks, would that monster be there or what is the climate in this area? The questions never stopped during the writing process. The second challenge of writing this novel was consistency. This challenge sounds easy but proved problematic. Something as simple as the spelling of a character's name. This led to time spent during the editing process. Reading other authors first and foremost proved to be invaluable. Authors like Salvatore, Golden and even Tolkien provided strong influences. These authors gave me insight into form and showed the potential of storytelling in this genre. The other two, despite reluctance to admit, watching westerns all the time as a child. Westerns during my youth displayed a fascinating world of the hero or heroine jumping on a horse riding to confront the villain. Also, the game Dungeouns and Dragons. This gave the lore of fantasy monsters used in this novel. This game is gaining interest with shows like Stranger Things. Surrenstrada: For Honor sub-genre is Weird West. This genre, even though a few works have been done, is relatively open. This work adds to a sub-genre by giving compelling characters, new world and tells a compelling story. The implications of this work shows this genre that creating a world and putting monsters against your heroes is all secondary. Despite being set in a fantastical world, there is always a human element. That is where the story hides.All rights reserved by the author, who has granted UCO Chambers Library the non-exclusive right to share this material in its online repositories. Contact UCO Chambers Library's Digital Initiatives Working Group at diwg@uco.edu for the permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of this material.MonstersHonorAcademic thesesFantasyWeird West(OCoLC)1041854424