I may have been trying to write the wrong book all this time? This isn't me looking at my #NaNoWriMo project too seriously too early. It's something I think that project is leading me to understand about what I was working on before.
I might have more passion about a completely different thing? I might want to write something I don't actually think I can get people to read? I'm thinking in questions?
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@RedKing Because I can get people excited about fiction, but I have a lot more trouble getting people to care when it's about my interests. But I think maybe I really want to be writing a book about divination. Specifically using playing cards and gaming dice.
@feloneouscat @RedKing Friend, I am originally from Texas. I know how Texans yell, "Do it!" to each other whether it's a good idea or not. We just want to be able to say we know the person who did it. 😄
@weirdfizz @RedKing But I actually mean it. And it actually may be a good idea!
@feloneouscat @weirdfizz Admittedly I did live in Texas for ten years, so I'm guilty of the same behavior.
But I'm also a frustrated write whose ADHD frequently foils his own plans - if you WANT to write about this, if you CAN write about this, do it. Even if nobody else ever reads it. Even if it's just for yourself. Write. Get it out of your head. *Make it real*.
I'll even promise to read every damn word when you're done, if it helps. It honestly sounds intriguing.
@weirdfizz That sounds cool actually. If you want to write it -- write it. :)
@weirdfizz I am VERY interested in this topic! (And I'm just a rando.) I have a nice little collection of gaming dice and I don't even do gaming in real life, only online, once in a great while.)
@librarianjenne I wrote something with an example of how I do dice readings. Dice are pretty clear, and my family thinks it's hilarious that mine tell me everything I don't want to hear.
@weirdfizz I think writing (for me) is discovering things that I didn’t anticipate — for example some characters I started writing for an abortive police procedural were PERFECT as background characters for a sci-fi story.
In the end it is your project and only you know the direction you will go.
All part of the journey!
First novel I ever completed I was so proud of myself, but I soon realised it was not appropriate as a break out novel.
I started out writing contemporary/literary. Fifteen years later I'm writing about a vampire 300k years in the future, and another story set in a full magic system with pixies and goblins in it. I'm loving both. Much more fun!
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@weirdfizz Why don't you think anyone would read it?