I finished Project Succession and that was a big moment for me. The same applies for when I finished The House of Naivin. Though those stories I have two things in common, the format and the fact that I just threw up on the page and went beyond direction less. There is a goal, but the goal of getting there is just me throwing up words and using a format that is comfortable for me. I know I kept going back to writing Red Reign.
Side tangent about me and Red Reign
I don’t know why I keep writing this story! It frustrates me to no end because I keep going back to this story and Jorildyn. Because in my mind, the story is epic and amazing, until I have to write it out and it becomes something totally different. I don’t even get to the part that is supposed to make it amazing and epic like in my mind. I am chapters and books far from it. I am so delusional about Red Reign that it makes me not want to write it and to put Jorildyn in anything else. Yet I like it because of the delusions which is horrible. Delusions are just that and nothing more. It’s not a delusion when it happens, its now a weird part of reality. I honestly don’t want to write Red Reign at least not dive deeper into why I need to make it work.
Now, I need to go back to what makes me love writing. I don’t need to edit as I write because it is also holding me back and I need to write my chapters like I used to write it. I also enjoy writing by word counts because I am a person who likes some uniformity in my writing style. This is just my own personal opinion for my own sake.
So, I am going back to my basics and writing a story that I can see myself writing. I think I need a whole new character and work my way from there. No Jorildyn, No Aeris, and none of the same characters. I need a new character I can flesh out with a story idea that I am working on right now.
I had something like this happen to me. So, some years back, I got tired of writing stories taking place in Elgana. Every idea was taking place in it, too.
So, I thought, okay, what’s a genre I’ve always wanted to try?
Steampunk.
And so I wrote Jack Of All Trades, a steampunk (fail) with dragons story and it was a nice breath of fresh air working on a whole new world with a whole new set of rules and characters and magick.
But it was the thing I needed to make me feel motivated again to write another Elgana story without feeling tired of being in the same world.
I just get worried if I write a story set in a whole new world, I will end up going into hyper mode with world-building first then starting the story dead last.
Though I could give it a shot because I love Alagossia, but sometimes it is nice to focus on other fictional settings instead.
World real settings in an urban fantasy sense, those aren’t my thing and never will be.
Honestly, I write so many things that I don’t really have a place to figure out what to do with people who stick to the same world forever and a day. I don’t.
