Yora
Maester
I've been interested in fantasy writing for five years now, and every time I tried jumping back into it I found myself not really able to articulate to myself what I want to write about. I know many things from various fantasy works that I like, but those don't really make a story about something. I feel like a good story needs to have something to say and needs to have a point.
I've often been thinking about what kinds of protagonists I'd like, what places they could go to, what kinds of antagonists they could oppose, and what cool setpiece action scenes I could include. But my experience with that has always been that this doesn't magically come together in a story I feel motivated to write out to full length. It's checking boxes and painting by numbers. I find it not fulfilling to write, and who would want to read that?
So I am now thinking about approaching everything from the other side and first searching for something I feel excited to write about, and then making choices what elements would fit into such a story.
My question is what your motivations were to decide on a subject for the stories you work on? What was it that you wanted to write about, and how did that influence your choices what kind of things to put into them?
I've often been thinking about what kinds of protagonists I'd like, what places they could go to, what kinds of antagonists they could oppose, and what cool setpiece action scenes I could include. But my experience with that has always been that this doesn't magically come together in a story I feel motivated to write out to full length. It's checking boxes and painting by numbers. I find it not fulfilling to write, and who would want to read that?
So I am now thinking about approaching everything from the other side and first searching for something I feel excited to write about, and then making choices what elements would fit into such a story.
My question is what your motivations were to decide on a subject for the stories you work on? What was it that you wanted to write about, and how did that influence your choices what kind of things to put into them?