When did you realize that the first novel wasn't THE novel for you?

This speaks so many volumes…

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Unfortunately, it doesn’t write many ba-dum tss

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Same!

You could, but you need willing fans and friends. Or people that just believe in your product, whatever that may be. But then you need to be prepared to market your Kickstarter which is a lot… You also need to figure out all the things about benefits with Kickstarter because people are expecting to get stuff.

Well, like you said,

One day, you’ll get all the things you want in all the ways you want :wink: I hear stories of people who didn’t think they could achieve their goal, actually achieving it.

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My first story idea that I was really passionate about was about a little orphan girl who could see ghosts and was basically adopted by a dead couple, but obviously not llegally because they couldn’t take care of her. The ghosts would possess dolls she made for them until she could find a way to bring them back to life so they could be a proper family.

I loved this idea and the characters for a really long time, and had plans to turn it into a graphic novel. But I lost muse for the art part of it after trying to put in the work and realizing I was not cut out for it. Then when I tried to write it as a text based novel, I just slowly lost interest in it. The story was heavily influenced by things I enjoyed as a teenager, and I grew out of a lot of those things, so the story kind of lost life for me and I moved on to other things.

I might revisit it someday and do a massive overhaul of the whole concept and change and refine it. But for now I really just want to focus on my Synthetic series. It’s the one that has clicked really hard for me and I’m still passionate about it. I’ve also done a lot more in regards to actually developing and writing the story in my Synthetic series, whereas, with the other idea, it was mostly just daydreaming random scenarios with the characters and didn’t have much structure. Hell, I hadn’t even ever settled on a name for the story.

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Actually, my first book is on Amazon. It’s the story of a tyrannical far right US President who turns America into a theocracy, builds death camps for immigrants, and outlaws POCs and LGBT+ people. Sound like anyone we know…? (ノ_<、)ヾ(´▽`)

I know what you mean, though. Before I ever attempted a novel I used to write fanfiction short stories, and sometimes I’d start off really loving one but then lose interest and abandon it before it was finished. Hence, I’d never post anything anywhere until it was completely done, not even on Wattpad. I’d hate for someone to get interested in something only to have it left permanently incomplete. Sooooo many people have done that to me through the years! (♯^.^ღ)

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I feel like I probably don’t have the best answer lol. My first and only one i’ve finished to any degree I wrote when i was 9 or 10. And I knew it was bad pretty shortly after that because it was a lot of little kid nonsense in every way lol.

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The first “real story” I wrote was called The Intrigues of Gods & Men. It was meant to be a sprawling fantasy epic. Heavily inspired by GoT and Skyrim. I wrote about 40k words and then I realised it was going nowhere. Do they call it a false start? Maybe it wasn’t the right time, and I was too young.

It still lives on though in another form now. A bigger, better story I’m planning as we speak.

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Any novel I finish is a big achievement for me, so the feeling went to OSWaJS

Beforehand I’d only ever written short stories that never went beyond 5k words, or made attempts at starting a novel/novella only to lose interest early on. OSWaJS was the first I fully committed to finishing no matter what, and while not perfect by a long shot, I’m real happy with having seen it to its end.

Azurean Shadows (THFAS) is the second novel I’ve ever written, and similar to OSWaJS its a story I’m REALLY set on continuing. I’m a slow writer so it’ll likely take over a year or two to finish considering other things going on in life, but I will get there!

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I don’t really think this one applies to me because, well, I genuinely don’t care :sweat_smile: Plus I’ve been working with a lot of the same stories that were Wattpad novels but I have since developed them a LOT further because I don’t have to worry about sticking to their regulations :sweat_smile:

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