Engineering by day, elves by night

I am in my first year of a mechanical engineering degree in Hamburg and I write high fantasy. I understand there is a gap between those things and I am not particularly interested in bridging it. The fantasy I write is set in a world I have been building since I was about fourteen, in a notebook that I am slightly embarrassed to describe in detail. There are maps. The maps are not good. The cultures are more interesting than the maps, I think, although my friend who draws has offered to redo the maps and the offer is tempting. I've been posting chapters on a German fantasy forum since last autumn and the readership is small but specific and they have strong opinions about consistency, which has made me a more careful writer. Someone in November pointed out a timeline inconsistency between chapters seven and fifteen that I had not noticed. I fixed it. I'm currently in chapter twenty-two of what I think will be a very long first book. The lectures are manageable if I plan the chapter outlines during the boring ones. My father has no idea. My mother suspects.