I have been working on my current novel on and off since just before christmas. The novel is in the fantasy genre about a modern day girl ending up in a fantasy world similar to Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and the Narnia adventures.
I came to a decision about this novel today which is that I think it's time I gave it up at least for the time being. I'm not feeling the words, I'm struggling to write it and not due to writers block, I just don't hear my characters voices and my heart isn't in it. To be fair I have done much on it, I have written the first chapter three times and it still doesn't feel right and I've done the second chapter twice.
I have actually found writing this hard because of the total fantasy element of it, everything I write even the landscape has to be totally improvised and it is proving to be much harder than i thought. The novel is written down in terms of what happens beginining to end in a synopsis format so hopefully I can return to it in the future, and I even have a map I drew of the fantasy world which my character enters and travels through. Truth is the enthusiasm has gone and I am no longer enjoying this project, looking back I can't remember the last time I did enjoy writing or thinking about this without the sense of dread that went with it.
Now although I may be putting my fantasy novel on the back burner that doesn't mean I will stop writing or blogging. In fact I have another novel idea which has been in the pipeline for longer than my fantasy novel and it is that idea that I am full of enthusiasm for writing for. I am going to write another historical fiction story but unlike "The stepmother" which is based on characters who didn't exist but lived in a historical period, this novel will actually be based on a real person. I don't want to give too much away, but the new project will have the working title "The Orphan Princess."
So anyway I'm off now to go and play with my new plot bunnies.
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