Fourteen years I've spent on this story/universe. Yesterday it hit me that the reason for my latest block was because I keep adding a new plot line whenever I hit a block, with the expectation that the new plot will solve all the problems in the old plots. All it really does is add to the confusion. Instead of making things easier, I was making things harder.
Then it hit me that I had enough material for three or four or five books. I sat down and sorted through the scenes in the master plot line, this one for this book, that one for that book, et cetera et cetera. Book 1 would be a low fantasy, Book 2 high fantasy, Book 3 somewhere in between, all set during the same period, in the same place, with some of the same characters. Better yet, I could have a different narrator in each book, with different viewpoints on the same events to make things more interesting. I'd have to rewrite some of what I already had ....
Then it hit me that I was making things harder. Again.
I know writing isn't supposed to be easy. I know I should pick one story and see it through. I don't want to give up on this project, but right now I'm not sure which ways go forward and which backward.
Comments? Remarks? Suggestions?
Then it hit me that I had enough material for three or four or five books. I sat down and sorted through the scenes in the master plot line, this one for this book, that one for that book, et cetera et cetera. Book 1 would be a low fantasy, Book 2 high fantasy, Book 3 somewhere in between, all set during the same period, in the same place, with some of the same characters. Better yet, I could have a different narrator in each book, with different viewpoints on the same events to make things more interesting. I'd have to rewrite some of what I already had ....
Then it hit me that I was making things harder. Again.
I know writing isn't supposed to be easy. I know I should pick one story and see it through. I don't want to give up on this project, but right now I'm not sure which ways go forward and which backward.
Comments? Remarks? Suggestions?