...about 3 years ago and got a few paragraphs into chapter 10 and haven't written anything since. I took about a year to read the Harry Potter books and just about the time I finished them, I got into the whole brony deal. Now all my creative juices have been geared towards fan art and crossover comics. Anyway, the book was supposed to be about a kid who hears a legend about a portal that led to another world ruled by anthropomorphic wolves. 10 chapters in, I still haven't gotten him over the damn mountain separating his world and the gate that leads to the other world. I'm afraid that I'll never be inspired to get it done. The problem is that when I was just making stuff up as I went, it was fairly easy to write. However, since I have pretty much developed the whole story in my head, I cant find the motivation to continue. It kind of sucks but I said from the beginning that if I wasn't inspired, then I wouldn't write. And here I am 3 years later working 2nd shift and no more inspired than I was at the end of 2010. Maybe I will pick it back up eventually, but it doesn't seem like it will be any time in the foreseeable future. Anyway, now that that's off my chest, is there anyone else here has written or is currently writing a book?
Currently I have two projects, a novel and a novella, meant for publishing but being a Brony and moving from apartment to town house got in the way of my bigger projects. The novella is 4,000 some odd words and the novel is 50,000 words. As for motivation, music helps for me or just a few lines that I can remember I think that are epic or awesome from the novel. Another good thing that I have everything written down as a plot outline from beginning to end so that also helps me get off my ass and write again.
For a good few years now I've been working on a Dark Fantasy/Sci-Fi novel titled Kaxrah (Pronounced Kah-sh-rah) Legends. I've had all the ideas written inside my head, I know what to do with the story and how I want to go about it...but when it comes to writing it down on paper...my mind just draws nothing but blanks.
I've got a novel that is currently in its infancy. The way that I write, I don't really do "drafts", I just edit as I go along. It works for me. Using that method, I'm nearly done producing and finalizing the first chapter. I'm proud of the way it has been going.
I do that, too. And being the perfectionist that I am...*sigh*...makes it difficult to actually finish any of my novel ideas. I currently have two novels that I'm working on, and one that my boyfriend wants me to work on. The first is a retelling of the Hades/Persephone myth, which I have been working on for far longer than I care to admit. It doesn't help that I have absolutely no creativity left, it seems. It also doesn't help that I only feel inspired when handwriting and then I absolutely hate typing and editing it, so more often than not, it doesn't happen. I just have to bite the bullet and force myself to at least get some semi-polished pages down.
I'm currently working on my own universe which is a mix of fantasy, middle age, colonial times, industrial age, musket age and sci fi. I've had all the ideas in my head, but I don't know how to produce it. I can't write. I am bad at drawing and I can't code well enough to develop a video game. Screw me and my limitations. Everything's only in my head
I'm writing on an ongoing novel project called "The Kingdom of Thorns" that's centered around a group of "ratmen" (for lack of a better term,) in a fantasy setting world without humans. The have a society that resembles Medieval Europeans in many ways, and the main group of chracters ends up going on a number of adventures which involve combat with undead, magical beasts, bandits, and even daemons. Fun stuff.
