fae X troll romance thing

[quillpunk]

Today, I started outlining my Fae X Troll (gay) romance novel (tentatively) titled SUNSETS & MIDNIGHT LIGHTS. I'm only on chapter 2 of the outline, but I am already liking this. I also made a cover for the novel because... well, I just do that when I start working on a new project. It's fun! (That's why I had to come up with a title, and that one was the first one I liked.)

It's a simple love story, really. The troll is a woodcarver, and the fae is a medicine peddler, and so far I have done negative zero worldbuilding. It'll come eventually.

I'm also making a point for the fae to be nobody important, because to be honest I'm a little tired of that. There's nothing wrong with fae kings and assassins, I'm just not interested in writing that or similar things because, well, it already exists. A lot.

I'm a lot more interested in the little things. In how day-to-day life for fae and trolls and other things look. What a marketplace would look like. In social norms of such things, and how it would crash between species. I don't care about the politics (though I do care about the laws because laws are fun) and I don't want to tell another story about a fae prince saving his kingdom or something.

I'd like to read a gentle, kind story where the fae might be a little monstrous and dangerous, but it's not a problem to be fixed, or seen as something odd. It's not a result of a tragic background. They're fae. You can't judge them by human (or troll) standards.

So this is a simple story, with a simple (and happy) ending.

...Low-angst, low stakes, little drama and with absolutely no-one saving anyone. It's just a troll and fae falling in love, and I think that's really all it needs to be.