what do you do when you've created a universe and you want to share it with the world? what if it has a million stories to tell and you aren't out to write that many books? what if most of your stories rely on the others to truly convey them? does anybody know what i'm talking about? i know i'm being rather vague, but any comments would be helpful. at the very least they may get me thinking...the whole thing has put me in a slump.
TTFN & lol
Cosmi
Posted by JeremyMc (Member # 1400) on :
In vagueness, all things seem expansive. Once defined, they are managable. Perhaps it's not a million stories you see, but a million choices to make. And that can be daunting. Trust that the choices you make will provide a story of their own.
Posted by Red Wolf (Member # 1237) on :
-what do you do when you've created a universe and you want to share it with the world? Personally, I do my best to share it with the world, or the limited amount of the world I have access to. -what if it has a million stories to tell and you aren't out to write that many books? You tell the story(ies) you have, and hope that others take up the torch, like they have with star trek, and star wars. -what if most of your stories rely on the others to truly convey them? I honestly can't answer this question other then to say that I hope it's your chars that you're having difficulty with. -does anybody know what i'm talking about? Sorta. See above.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
You should see this topic. Obviously, a truly creative world has more potential than you as an individual author with a limited amount of time in this one can ever completely exploit. I don't think that this should be cause for concern. It would be much worse if you discovered that the world that you had imagined was so sterile and lifeless that you couldn't finish even one interesting story in it.
I'll never understand authors that grow to resent the demands that one particular world or story make on them (although I'm completely baffled by the sort of person that becomes obsessed with a fictional character to the point of locking up their favorite character's author and forcing them to write more ). Why not accept the diversity and complexity that are inherent in all characters, all creative worlds?
There are a million things in this world that I'll never get around to doing, some of which I'm just as glad to forgo (I'll never have the dubious pleasure of cheating on Liz Hurley, for example). I don't think that 'tis any cause for...well, a slump.
By the way, is there any particular reason for writing TTFN & lol at the end of your post?
Posted by Soule (Member # 1250) on :
Prioritize the million stories, Cos. Start with your favs (or the loudest ones, or the most important, etc.), and work your way down. You can else let another author into that universe and "co-write" books, like Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance books - oh, so good). I see what you were saying the other day about it - do what you can, let others help.
). Why not accept the diversity and complexity that are inherent in all characters, all creative worlds?