Recent content by Ashor Olux

Haha, I love this. It makes me feel like I should have gone out in style. Instead, I just tossed them onto the fire that was barely a lick of flame. It took a lot of time to burn them.

Thanks for all the input. I appreciate the feedback, especially with regard to the idea that I need to just start writing. I think that's what I need to do. I was overfocused on the world building and I was getting bogged down in details, as Chase mentioned. Creation through destruction. Perhaps...

How do you all deal with the sudden "arrival" of an unforeseen character in your plot? In other words, have you had a significant character pop up in your mind that you didn't have a plan for? And how did he/she affect your entire story?

Thanks for sharing AE Lowan. It's good to know that others have done something similar. Misery loves company! And I think you are right about the destruction creating some more room for creation. That's what I meant earlier when I said that I felt ambivalent about it: like it was good to destroy...

Yes, Woohooman. (How do I tag you in a post like you did. I like that.) That's how I feel. I have Ashor, and he is supposed to bring some sense of order (though I don't know if it is complete order, or more an understanding of order and disorder as somehow one single entity) to Philo. But even...

Well that's the thing. I'm not really sure how I feel about destroying it all. On one level, it was great to be done with it. But on another, even as I watched it burn, I felt like I wasn't done with it. And even now, I don't think I am. Like I said, Philo (that was the world) went through a...

So I have been crafting a world, called Philo, for several years now. Yesterday I guess I got frustrated with it all. I had notes in four different notebooks. They were all scattered ideas as my concepts have evolved and shifted through many different characters and events and societal shifts...