I haven't quite fulfilled my goal to write a scene every day, and by that I mean I've utterly failed and not written a thing since my last post.
Getting serious isn't really working out, is it?
Fortunately for me, I have an actual reason this time, instead of mere laziness or lack of motivation. I haven't had a good idea. And I don't mean the usual artistic wangst about how my art sucks and I'm no good (which I do a fair bit of). No, my current story idea is actively bad.
Epic grimdark military space opera science fantasy adventure.
It needs all of those adjectives and nouns. All of them.
And it's terrible. The entire thing is just an excuse to daydream about gigantic space battles between massive fleets. And armed planets. And eldritch abominations.
It sounds awesome, until you realize that the action is the ONLY thing I'm interested in. This sort of thing is more suited to a movie, or a video game, than to a novel. Or rather, serious of novels. Because this would end up running over a million words. Of plotless space battling action.
I can't write that. I respect myself too much to write that story. If it had a good plot, and some solid characters... yes. I'd love to write a story with epic space battles in it because those are cool. But this idea isn't a story with epic space battles. This is just epic space battles, no story.
So, until this idea gets out of my head, I probably won't be writing much of anything. Hopefully it won't last beyond the next week. Hopefully.
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