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A Change of Career?
3 years ago
While I have been making occasional progress on my poorly maintained novel, there have been some concerning developments that make me question if I should choose a writer’s occupation.
First off, a character I’ve been developing the storyline and personalities of certain characters in my head and it no longer fits with what I’ve written in the story so far, so I feel I may have to restart the entire thing.
Secondly, I’ve mentioned I’ve had difficulty staying interested in the current universe I’ve constructed. Since I’ve really been into developing Mecha universes, I was attempting to create a storyline from one of them. It was then I realized a major problem.
I can’t create characters I truly love anymore.
For my original novel universe, I crafted a world, nations, religion, and numerous characters that I could sympathize with and loved creating new stories with them. When I watch music videos, I picture these characters in place of the ones in the videos and it feels epic. It felt like these characters had soul.
Then I tried making new characters for these mecha-based stories and the magic that made my original characters is just, gone. These new characters, I can barely sympathize with them and you could switch their places and have just as much impact. They’re basically just empty puppets.
I honestly can’t remember how I originally developed my original novel characters and how I am still able to feel a strong bond with them all.
One theory I have for why I don’t feel as strongly for my mecha-story characters is because, like Gundam, I have multiple universes with different settings and stories and I frequently switch between them or rewrite them because of poor storylines or shifting interests. As such, it’s likely these characters don’t get the time they need for me to become attached to them.
Since I forgot how to bond with my own characters, I’ve wondered if I should even be a writer. Maybe I’m simply not cut out for it. I heard one guy say he had to make 7 drafts before he was able to finalize his novel. You’d think I’d know that. I just wish I had an idea of what else I should do to leave a piece of me in the world.
First off, a character I’ve been developing the storyline and personalities of certain characters in my head and it no longer fits with what I’ve written in the story so far, so I feel I may have to restart the entire thing.
Secondly, I’ve mentioned I’ve had difficulty staying interested in the current universe I’ve constructed. Since I’ve really been into developing Mecha universes, I was attempting to create a storyline from one of them. It was then I realized a major problem.
I can’t create characters I truly love anymore.
For my original novel universe, I crafted a world, nations, religion, and numerous characters that I could sympathize with and loved creating new stories with them. When I watch music videos, I picture these characters in place of the ones in the videos and it feels epic. It felt like these characters had soul.
Then I tried making new characters for these mecha-based stories and the magic that made my original characters is just, gone. These new characters, I can barely sympathize with them and you could switch their places and have just as much impact. They’re basically just empty puppets.
I honestly can’t remember how I originally developed my original novel characters and how I am still able to feel a strong bond with them all.
One theory I have for why I don’t feel as strongly for my mecha-story characters is because, like Gundam, I have multiple universes with different settings and stories and I frequently switch between them or rewrite them because of poor storylines or shifting interests. As such, it’s likely these characters don’t get the time they need for me to become attached to them.
Since I forgot how to bond with my own characters, I’ve wondered if I should even be a writer. Maybe I’m simply not cut out for it. I heard one guy say he had to make 7 drafts before he was able to finalize his novel. You’d think I’d know that. I just wish I had an idea of what else I should do to leave a piece of me in the world.
For example, “The Sleepover” is main continuity, but “Fidget in Wonderland” is not main continuity.