I've been thinking recently about how my story has evolved as ime passed
When I first starting creating the seedling of my story I was in my early teens and it mostly revolved around drawings of places and very quickly the ideas grew. I had dragons, every mythological creature from the greek myths, elves, dwarvs, talking hares and hedgehogs the size of a man. My original story was a mix between the redwall series, the lord of the rings, wheel of time, narnia, harry potter, and almost every other book I read around that time, plus about four kitchen sinks and WOW. I had the completely impossible geography, with mountains greater than 10 km in height, mountains on gargantuan trees, canyons the size of my mountains etc. Interestingly I kept my dragons small, about the size of a rhino. Don't get me wrong somethings didn't make it into the sinks, like floating cities wich just seemed too far fetched though a mountain range on a tree.....
Looking back and comparing what I have now, I barely have a kitchen much less a kitchen sink. It's funny too because the more I removed the more complicated my story has become. I think mostly the big thing that kicked this all off was my shift from the all important quest, that was my plot at the time, a quest for the powerful artifact to save the world, to the characters. Every now and again I still try to find ways to fit some of my childish ideas into the story, I really like the talking hares and still working on it.... I do have minitaurs so it's not too much to add talkign hares.
My story has evolved into a completely knew and unkown beast that left it's ancestrial roots long forgotten. How have your stories evolved as you evolved and matured as a writer or through the passage of time?
When I first starting creating the seedling of my story I was in my early teens and it mostly revolved around drawings of places and very quickly the ideas grew. I had dragons, every mythological creature from the greek myths, elves, dwarvs, talking hares and hedgehogs the size of a man. My original story was a mix between the redwall series, the lord of the rings, wheel of time, narnia, harry potter, and almost every other book I read around that time, plus about four kitchen sinks and WOW. I had the completely impossible geography, with mountains greater than 10 km in height, mountains on gargantuan trees, canyons the size of my mountains etc. Interestingly I kept my dragons small, about the size of a rhino. Don't get me wrong somethings didn't make it into the sinks, like floating cities wich just seemed too far fetched though a mountain range on a tree.....
Looking back and comparing what I have now, I barely have a kitchen much less a kitchen sink. It's funny too because the more I removed the more complicated my story has become. I think mostly the big thing that kicked this all off was my shift from the all important quest, that was my plot at the time, a quest for the powerful artifact to save the world, to the characters. Every now and again I still try to find ways to fit some of my childish ideas into the story, I really like the talking hares and still working on it.... I do have minitaurs so it's not too much to add talkign hares.
My story has evolved into a completely knew and unkown beast that left it's ancestrial roots long forgotten. How have your stories evolved as you evolved and matured as a writer or through the passage of time?