SmokeScribe98
Minstrel
Basically I have been gradually plotting out this fictional world for my story with a plethora of different ideas and themes I would like to incorporate but the problem is I've become so daunted by creating this world and creating these societies and religions I've forgot what the hell I was doing in the first place. I originally came up with the idea for this fictional world because I found historical fiction to be very restrictive of my writing ( I wanted to write a historical fiction book set during the Renaissance to begin with. While a lot of the ideas and things I came up with for this fantasy world seemed good my heart wasn't with it anymore.
The main themes I wanted to incorporate were a Renaissance-esque world that I could play with without the actual restrictions of the Renaissance, a dark lovecraftian style satanic approaching threat under all the squabbling of countries and families above, a xenophobic, jingoist and nationalist society and a protagonist who has to question his beliefs. My heart has always been with the Renaissance and when I'm writing this Renaissance-esque world I make it too much like reality, so what I'm asking is do I stick to what I've been working on or do I go for historical fiction?
I put up a short story I entered for my English GCSE recently under the showcase forum and a conversation with asterisk got me questioning whether I should be undertaking this daunting task of creating a large epic fantasy world so young in my life or if I should take the option of writing a smaller story set in Renaissance Italy. The other option is of course merging both ideas together, perhaps having this dark satanic like threat being imprisoned in the bowels of Vesuvius or maybe even an alternative reality in a post apocalyptic world set after the eruption of a super volcano during the Renaissance.
Please, if any of you have any advice or tips to give I would appreciate it a lot. I know I have a lot of time ahead of me to worry about writing but its one of the few things I enjoy doing and that I'm quite good at, I want to do something in this life other than just meander my way through. Thank you.
The main themes I wanted to incorporate were a Renaissance-esque world that I could play with without the actual restrictions of the Renaissance, a dark lovecraftian style satanic approaching threat under all the squabbling of countries and families above, a xenophobic, jingoist and nationalist society and a protagonist who has to question his beliefs. My heart has always been with the Renaissance and when I'm writing this Renaissance-esque world I make it too much like reality, so what I'm asking is do I stick to what I've been working on or do I go for historical fiction?
I put up a short story I entered for my English GCSE recently under the showcase forum and a conversation with asterisk got me questioning whether I should be undertaking this daunting task of creating a large epic fantasy world so young in my life or if I should take the option of writing a smaller story set in Renaissance Italy. The other option is of course merging both ideas together, perhaps having this dark satanic like threat being imprisoned in the bowels of Vesuvius or maybe even an alternative reality in a post apocalyptic world set after the eruption of a super volcano during the Renaissance.
Please, if any of you have any advice or tips to give I would appreciate it a lot. I know I have a lot of time ahead of me to worry about writing but its one of the few things I enjoy doing and that I'm quite good at, I want to do something in this life other than just meander my way through. Thank you.