Mystical Enchantress
Dreamer
Thank you for allowing me to join this group. I am very excited and to be honest quite nervous.
I have had a yearning to write a fantasy novel for so many years I can’t recall when the seed planted itself in my heart and mind. But I didn’t start it for many many years until very recently. I was afraid - always afraid. Afraid of the pressure of success (not necessarily to be a published author but to say I had finished it at all), making mistakes, losing steam (because I get bored and start other projects but I am determined to finish this one) but mostly because I realise I am playing God. And that is an enormous undertaking. Fun for the most part, but enormous. And who am I to take on such a mammoth task? Little old me is just that: little old me.
So essentially I am new to this. I have purchased an online YA fantasy writing course and have notebooks and character builds as well as notes about ideas that come from nowhere, a mobile that is filled with screenshots and photos of things that inspire me to write about them in my novel. I also have a lot of ideas that I don’t really know how to stitch together to make an epic tale. Oh and the plot! I think that scares me even more. Plot of character building first? It’s a chicken or egg scenario for me. I have done so much writing and playing around with images, words and ideas that I have figured out this isn’t going to be a single novel. It is going to be an epic tale and that frightens the living daylights out of me. JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, Robin Hobb, JV Jones and Raymond E Feist are my inspiration but heck, to stand next to them in memorium... am I nuts?! I hadn’t realised I was that ambitious! Buuttt... I feel like this is what I am meant to do. So I look forward to learning more about the craft I find myself interested in and about sharing my experiences of self-doubt, frustration and fear while finding myself lost in an imaginary world that I would love to get lost in myself and if it’s a success would love you all to find yourselves in too, God willing.
Many blessings to you.
I have had a yearning to write a fantasy novel for so many years I can’t recall when the seed planted itself in my heart and mind. But I didn’t start it for many many years until very recently. I was afraid - always afraid. Afraid of the pressure of success (not necessarily to be a published author but to say I had finished it at all), making mistakes, losing steam (because I get bored and start other projects but I am determined to finish this one) but mostly because I realise I am playing God. And that is an enormous undertaking. Fun for the most part, but enormous. And who am I to take on such a mammoth task? Little old me is just that: little old me.
So essentially I am new to this. I have purchased an online YA fantasy writing course and have notebooks and character builds as well as notes about ideas that come from nowhere, a mobile that is filled with screenshots and photos of things that inspire me to write about them in my novel. I also have a lot of ideas that I don’t really know how to stitch together to make an epic tale. Oh and the plot! I think that scares me even more. Plot of character building first? It’s a chicken or egg scenario for me. I have done so much writing and playing around with images, words and ideas that I have figured out this isn’t going to be a single novel. It is going to be an epic tale and that frightens the living daylights out of me. JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, Robin Hobb, JV Jones and Raymond E Feist are my inspiration but heck, to stand next to them in memorium... am I nuts?! I hadn’t realised I was that ambitious! Buuttt... I feel like this is what I am meant to do. So I look forward to learning more about the craft I find myself interested in and about sharing my experiences of self-doubt, frustration and fear while finding myself lost in an imaginary world that I would love to get lost in myself and if it’s a success would love you all to find yourselves in too, God willing.
Many blessings to you.
Inkling
Myth Weaver
