Androxine Vortex
Archmage
It has been some time since I have posted on this forum. I wanted, needed, to take a long break from my writting. I tend to have an obsessive personality when it comes to things and i literaly poured every second of my free time into writing and I was constantly obsessing over ways to critique and improve my skills when i should have been focused on much more important things. During this long break, i felt more at peace. I felt calm, I felt like I had the freedom to do other things. Before I felt like I had to write and it felt like a chore to me, but taking a break and stepping back, I took a deeper look into my reasoning on why I write, and have come to a conclusion. I am no longer striving to become an author, at least, not in the way I originaly thought.
This may be a bit of a shock, to me it was too. Am I throwing in the towel? Maybe. Sometimes I see it that way but I feel there are more important things I can devout my time toward. I am a raging perfectionist and I literaly spent months trying to create a first chapter to my book, which I didn't even come close to finishing three pages. I was unhappy with everything I wrote and felt over pressured to make it truly outstanding. I believe I am much more of a creative person. I have sharred the vision of my many worlds I have created and the plots with friends and they all have said that they were blown away by the creativity and originality of my concepts and ideas. But where I aparently excel at imagination, I lack in presentation.
I enjoy creating and using my imagination. I always have and I always will. But it was not healthy for me to spend the amount of time that I did working on my story. I became very stressed about my work and it took the passion away from it. I wondered what my future would be. I still like to write but I enjoy writting plots and less specific style. It's hard to explain so the only thing I can compare it to would be something like the Similarion. The different stories in there are very fun to read yet they are not written like modern books. It doesn't go into any deep povs and it's more of a telling of these grand tales. That's what i like to do and I have no problem at all writting in this style because this is what I enjoy.
So my question is this: Do you think books written in the style of the Similarion could be published? Not asking if they will be a bestseller. A style that goes to great length showing the grand tale of a story and having a more poetic and, as I see it, "narrative purpose" rather than the modern pov driven book.
I do want to thank every member here that has helped me in my journey and just because I am deciding to do this, I don't think the time I spent before was wasted. I've learned from it and the members here at this forum have really shown me things I wouldn't have thought of myself. I want to again thank every one here and wish you all the best of luck on not only your works but your life as well. In a sense I can see how some would see me calling it quits, and while in a sense I am, I am still trying to move in a different direction. I want to keep writting fun, even if it means i'll never get published, so be it, popularity is fleeting and only temporary. I would rather never get a single fan or reader yet enjoy it than have many fans but hate the process of what I create.
edit: I would like to make something like my collected visions book. as some of you might know, warhammer 40k is a HUGE, HUGE universe/setting. This book pretty much set up most of the background info as a collection of informative books. It was almost like a poem that explained the universe's lore and history.
This may be a bit of a shock, to me it was too. Am I throwing in the towel? Maybe. Sometimes I see it that way but I feel there are more important things I can devout my time toward. I am a raging perfectionist and I literaly spent months trying to create a first chapter to my book, which I didn't even come close to finishing three pages. I was unhappy with everything I wrote and felt over pressured to make it truly outstanding. I believe I am much more of a creative person. I have sharred the vision of my many worlds I have created and the plots with friends and they all have said that they were blown away by the creativity and originality of my concepts and ideas. But where I aparently excel at imagination, I lack in presentation.
I enjoy creating and using my imagination. I always have and I always will. But it was not healthy for me to spend the amount of time that I did working on my story. I became very stressed about my work and it took the passion away from it. I wondered what my future would be. I still like to write but I enjoy writting plots and less specific style. It's hard to explain so the only thing I can compare it to would be something like the Similarion. The different stories in there are very fun to read yet they are not written like modern books. It doesn't go into any deep povs and it's more of a telling of these grand tales. That's what i like to do and I have no problem at all writting in this style because this is what I enjoy.
So my question is this: Do you think books written in the style of the Similarion could be published? Not asking if they will be a bestseller. A style that goes to great length showing the grand tale of a story and having a more poetic and, as I see it, "narrative purpose" rather than the modern pov driven book.
I do want to thank every member here that has helped me in my journey and just because I am deciding to do this, I don't think the time I spent before was wasted. I've learned from it and the members here at this forum have really shown me things I wouldn't have thought of myself. I want to again thank every one here and wish you all the best of luck on not only your works but your life as well. In a sense I can see how some would see me calling it quits, and while in a sense I am, I am still trying to move in a different direction. I want to keep writting fun, even if it means i'll never get published, so be it, popularity is fleeting and only temporary. I would rather never get a single fan or reader yet enjoy it than have many fans but hate the process of what I create.
edit: I would like to make something like my collected visions book. as some of you might know, warhammer 40k is a HUGE, HUGE universe/setting. This book pretty much set up most of the background info as a collection of informative books. It was almost like a poem that explained the universe's lore and history.
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Myth Weaver
Sage
Auror
