Anberith
Dreamer
I got curious as this is happening for the 150th time to me with this story, if anyone else is or has gone through the same thing. The fact is that I have been working on a story since I was around eleven-twelve years old, it is an epic fantasy. My problem is that every time I start working on the core story and it starts to grow it mutates into something entirely different from what I started with. I am outlining and there are central characters that are still the same and the basic story line is still there, with a bunch of favorite scenes of mine that just have to be there but every time and without warning from starting back at square on the original plot, a few weeks into it the story is almost unrecognizable.
Sometimes I have gone so of track that I have even changed the main characters, but when I realize that I am now just working on a completely different story i tend to go back and pick up the original story again.
I had this moment a few months back when I realized how far I had gotten from my original story that I went back to the one I had wanted to write so many years ago. I started to work on it and expand it, adding characters, plot and so forth. But now once again and rather by surprise I have changed major parts as the characters get deeper back story and I add certain elements. Yes there where a lot of gaping holes in the plot and a lot of unanswered questions but I am wondering if this is a normal process or do I have such epic ADD that I will never completely stick to one story and always end far off and never any closer to finishing one whole consistent story.
This is one of the reasons I have not yet finished a novel, this one or any other. I am wondering if I should take this as a warning sign and reel my self in a little. Or could it work this time. Is it alright as certain things come clear in the story that you change other things that you thought where important to fit this new change.
I am going to end this here, please tell me if you have experienced this and what your experience was like. Would like to know if there are others like me out there ; )
Sometimes I have gone so of track that I have even changed the main characters, but when I realize that I am now just working on a completely different story i tend to go back and pick up the original story again.
I had this moment a few months back when I realized how far I had gotten from my original story that I went back to the one I had wanted to write so many years ago. I started to work on it and expand it, adding characters, plot and so forth. But now once again and rather by surprise I have changed major parts as the characters get deeper back story and I add certain elements. Yes there where a lot of gaping holes in the plot and a lot of unanswered questions but I am wondering if this is a normal process or do I have such epic ADD that I will never completely stick to one story and always end far off and never any closer to finishing one whole consistent story.
This is one of the reasons I have not yet finished a novel, this one or any other. I am wondering if I should take this as a warning sign and reel my self in a little. Or could it work this time. Is it alright as certain things come clear in the story that you change other things that you thought where important to fit this new change.
I am going to end this here, please tell me if you have experienced this and what your experience was like. Would like to know if there are others like me out there ; )