UltimaBahamut93
Scribe
When I am thinking about characters, places, things, etc. I find it so difficult, if not entirely impossible, to imagine truly original designs. If I am creating a character, my mind goes to whatever character in fiction they would mostly resemble and then that becomes the mental image that gets stuck. This expands to locations, weapons, armor, cozy cottage interiors and everything else. I know every writer at some point faces the dreaded, "Is my story (idea) too similar to X?" but with me I feel fraudulent by basically stealing other designs. I know that nothing is truly original and that we all base things on other created works and use things for inspiration, but I'm not happy with how I do it.
I feel like the best thing to do would be to take the design and tweak it into something more original but for whatever reason that is such a difficult concept to me. It sounds almost silly but I have a hard time imagining the appearances of things mentally. So add on the idea of imagining something original and unique and it feels like trying to imagine a new color. I'm curious if anyone else has this issue?
I feel like the best thing to do would be to take the design and tweak it into something more original but for whatever reason that is such a difficult concept to me. It sounds almost silly but I have a hard time imagining the appearances of things mentally. So add on the idea of imagining something original and unique and it feels like trying to imagine a new color. I'm curious if anyone else has this issue?