Dear Friends,
It has been quite a while since I have posted real content up here. I am looking at my journals and notes from the years I have spent working on my fantasy series. One thing keeps coming to mind, this is a lot of world building. I started working on this book series when I was in seventh grade. The first iteration of the first book in the series was a two page typed story. My grandmother was pleased that she was the first person I shared it with. She told me it had potential and I've been working joyfully on it ever since.
The core ideas in that first short story have been fleshed out and given more detail over the years, but so has many other things. Sometimes, I wonder if I have gone too far. I have literal volumes of material that never even made it into my books (published or unpublished). Then I stop and think to myself that all of this material can be carefully reorganized and produce more books.
I don't know if I am going to finish the 30 book series that I plotted out before I die. Other projects pop up and I get distracted. At the same time, my legacy of writing is going to be fun for my heirs to go through and see how it changed over the years. Unless they decide I am still boring. Having teenaged children makes you boring to them no matter what you do.
I hope that you find as much joy in world building as I have. And I hope that it keeps writing fun and interesting for you. It has for me.
♥
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