so i have this idea. it was something i've been thinking about for a while, and it's a bit dark, but it's the perfect idea for a novel. i've started a few novels over the past 5 or so years, around 3 of them i've started. but the most recent one, the one i wrote like a years' worth of notes for, i started. got the farthest in that i'd ever gotten before, but then i just got lost in the story. it wasn't just writer's block either. i just realized that i really had no plot. i had so many characters and areas that i loved so much, but i had no story. and the story i was trying to force was really complicated, and the places that were involved were all really complicated and would have had to have had a ton of research behind them all in order for them to have even made any sense. i had characters in paris, and i've been to paris, but describing the streets that they were taking would have been massive research. so compound that with israel, japan, and jamaica, and it would have just gotten out of hand....lol, at least out of hand for me.
but the stories i'm working with now are a lot easier for me. the first one is the main one of the graphic novel, and the second one is the main one for a book.
the second story is really comprehensive and it's definitely not as complicated, and i definitely have a plot for it. i'm excited to get started on it, and i think it's going to be really successful, probably one of my successful pieces ever. and having considered it for some time, i reached a cool milestone with my writing because for a while i was having a tough time getting the concept of a plot. i would think of a lot of interesting premises and characters, but to have a story, with direction and an end didn't come to me at all. until now....phew. that was close lol
