Ever since Project Succession, I cannot find my groove back, but I might know why!

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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.

At least I am medicated to make this work.

Thoughts and feelings?

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Starting over with a whole new character might be a great way to get fresh new ideas! Hope it works. (*＾-‘) 乃

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Did you read the side tangent? :rofl::sweat_smile:

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Yup, I read the entire post. Don’t know what else to say about it, though. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯

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It is fine. I just thought it was a slightly funny side tangent.

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are you saying you are still in the groove of the work you just finished? and that you want to get into the groove of a new story?

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No.

Yes.

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@Akje mentioned fresh new ideas.

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.

Maybe that’s the thing you need :wink:

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Possibly.

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.

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Would it work if you just tell yourself, “I’m just going to write a story and not worry about world building or plot holes.” ?