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Can I? When Doubt Kills Your Ideas
by Kassan Warrad
Alright! The Muses sing, drawing you to the desk, pump your veins with hot blood and fill your mind with combustible imagination. You’re on fire and ready to write. The idea once tumbling in your mind is bucking with life and wants to breath words on your screen. It’s awesome. You’re awesome. All is good.
Then the passions temper under the cool, steady light of your computer screen. The process of fleshing out your idea with words demands time. So much so, you feel the vibrant energy of your story suffocate under the process. Now you’re using the logical, analytical side of your brain. Each scene or circumstance demands continuity and must fit into the internal logic of your world. Everything must make sense; else the reader will dismiss this pile of junk for amateur hubris.
With logic comes the questions. A train of them, each rumbling down the tracks uncaring of the idea which once bucked in the stables of your mind, eager for freedom, now tied to the rails. All of the doubts can easily be summarized into “Can I?”
Of course, this isn’t the real question haunting the halls of your mind. The real question is “does it make sense?”
Does it make sense for a dragon to love a human?
Does the magic system make sense?
Does the social construct I want to use make sense?
Does this awesome character trait make sense?
Continue reading the Original Blog Post.
Can I? When Doubt Kills Your Ideas
by Kassan Warrad
Alright! The Muses sing, drawing you to the desk, pump your veins with hot blood and fill your mind with combustible imagination. You’re on fire and ready to write. The idea once tumbling in your mind is bucking with life and wants to breath words on your screen. It’s awesome. You’re awesome. All is good.
Then the passions temper under the cool, steady light of your computer screen. The process of fleshing out your idea with words demands time. So much so, you feel the vibrant energy of your story suffocate under the process. Now you’re using the logical, analytical side of your brain. Each scene or circumstance demands continuity and must fit into the internal logic of your world. Everything must make sense; else the reader will dismiss this pile of junk for amateur hubris.
With logic comes the questions. A train of them, each rumbling down the tracks uncaring of the idea which once bucked in the stables of your mind, eager for freedom, now tied to the rails. All of the doubts can easily be summarized into “Can I?”
Of course, this isn’t the real question haunting the halls of your mind. The real question is “does it make sense?”
Does it make sense for a dragon to love a human?
Does the magic system make sense?
Does the social construct I want to use make sense?
Does this awesome character trait make sense?
Continue reading the Original Blog Post.