TheokinsJ
Troubadour
It has been a long time since I last posted on the forum, and while I've been trying to make progress with my writing, I have fallen into the trap of 'colouring in the map'.
I love world-building, and as often as I can spare, I am always searching through old Norse poems, reading ancient history and other books, searching for names and inspiration for lore. I have drawn out a map, on a massive sheet of paper, and it is my weekly routine to go and look at it, and add more and more names and places.
Yet for all this, my writing has not come so easy. I wrote the first 60 pages of the novel, then decided to scrap it and start fresh. Yet since then I have slowly, sentence by sentence, written less than 5 pages in the space of a month. I love writing and I love world-building, yet somehow I need to find a way to get on with the story and stop distracting myself with the lore. Any thoughts?
I love world-building, and as often as I can spare, I am always searching through old Norse poems, reading ancient history and other books, searching for names and inspiration for lore. I have drawn out a map, on a massive sheet of paper, and it is my weekly routine to go and look at it, and add more and more names and places.
Yet for all this, my writing has not come so easy. I wrote the first 60 pages of the novel, then decided to scrap it and start fresh. Yet since then I have slowly, sentence by sentence, written less than 5 pages in the space of a month. I love writing and I love world-building, yet somehow I need to find a way to get on with the story and stop distracting myself with the lore. Any thoughts?