sleepwriter
Dreamer
Can anyone offer some advice for this problem?
I'm the kind of hobby writer that's generally gifted with great flashes of scenes and ideas for novels, but that never actually finishes anything. A few months ago I was going through some old things and found a few pieces I had started way back in middle school. These worlds and characters stuck with me over the years so I haven't had the heart to throw them out. Lately they've been pestering me so I finally decided to stick it out and finish them. I thought I'd be clever and combine elements together from the different stories to make one amazing world and adventure. The problem is that there are so many amazing things in my world that I want to include and my plot outline just doesn't allow for it. I'm concerned that what I want to create is waaaay bigger and more complex than the simple one-book novel I had initially intended, and yet I'm not happy with less than what I see in my head. I guess it's just a reflection of what I enjoy reading (LOTR, and Kingkiller Chronicles being among my favorites), but that still doesn't solve my current dilemma of having no idea how to pull off something so huge.
Do I revamp my plot for the sake of this world, thereby taking on a larger project? Or do I scale down my world to match my plot? Or is there something I haven't thought of?
I'm the kind of hobby writer that's generally gifted with great flashes of scenes and ideas for novels, but that never actually finishes anything. A few months ago I was going through some old things and found a few pieces I had started way back in middle school. These worlds and characters stuck with me over the years so I haven't had the heart to throw them out. Lately they've been pestering me so I finally decided to stick it out and finish them. I thought I'd be clever and combine elements together from the different stories to make one amazing world and adventure. The problem is that there are so many amazing things in my world that I want to include and my plot outline just doesn't allow for it. I'm concerned that what I want to create is waaaay bigger and more complex than the simple one-book novel I had initially intended, and yet I'm not happy with less than what I see in my head. I guess it's just a reflection of what I enjoy reading (LOTR, and Kingkiller Chronicles being among my favorites), but that still doesn't solve my current dilemma of having no idea how to pull off something so huge.
Do I revamp my plot for the sake of this world, thereby taking on a larger project? Or do I scale down my world to match my plot? Or is there something I haven't thought of?