Today, I’m going to do some inspiring using my current interests.
I have started a new novel that I call ‘The Crow’. It’s in a world based off of World War Two/1940s (my current obsession). In the novel, the regions of the Western and Northern people have gone to war with the Eastern people.
Taking inspiration from Eastern Europe (specifically Ukraine and Romania) from the end of World War One to the start of World War Two, I began creating my world. The Eastern region is a war-torn land filled with communist revolutionaries, aristocratic tyrants, and the people living in poverty caught up in the terror.
And out of it, scientific experiments arise and soon a plague is tearing through the East. With refugees carrying the illness trying to flee for other countries, and Northern and Western politicians demanding the East to halt the experiments, war is looming on the horizon.
It was something I had never tried before. I had written a few novels of WWII, which, of course, were garbage. But this–making a fantasy world based in the 1930s/1940s, and mixing it with non-futuristic science fiction elements–this was something I was doing differently. Of course, I had tried science fiction before, but it was the classic cliché futuristic, dystopian paradise city where the hero finds out what’s wrong.
So, one thing I’ve taught myself:
Don’t be afraid to try genres and elements of stories that you had never even taken into consideration.
I’m writing in a different style of POV as well. The four main characters–Martin, Toby, Alik, and a mysterious entity known as The Number–tell the story. But I couldn’t decide if I should do third person. I feel most comfortable in first person, but how would I manage that with four main characters?
Once again, I pushed myself to do something I had never done before: I switched POV in different sections. I’m stretching my boundaries by doing something I normally would have scoffed at. Also, I’m trying it in present-tense.
Hopefully I will come through with a novel that is unusual and not like anything anyone’s ever read.
So do what must be done–think outside the box. Get out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself. Stretch those boundaries until you have conquered the world of fiction.
Do you ever browse the library and wonder, ‘all these books are the same’? Do you feel depressed and annoyed that nothing suits your interest? Then write them! Write something the world has never read before!
I have started a new novel that I call ‘The Crow’. It’s in a world based off of World War Two/1940s (my current obsession). In the novel, the regions of the Western and Northern people have gone to war with the Eastern people.
Taking inspiration from Eastern Europe (specifically Ukraine and Romania) from the end of World War One to the start of World War Two, I began creating my world. The Eastern region is a war-torn land filled with communist revolutionaries, aristocratic tyrants, and the people living in poverty caught up in the terror.
And out of it, scientific experiments arise and soon a plague is tearing through the East. With refugees carrying the illness trying to flee for other countries, and Northern and Western politicians demanding the East to halt the experiments, war is looming on the horizon.
It was something I had never tried before. I had written a few novels of WWII, which, of course, were garbage. But this–making a fantasy world based in the 1930s/1940s, and mixing it with non-futuristic science fiction elements–this was something I was doing differently. Of course, I had tried science fiction before, but it was the classic cliché futuristic, dystopian paradise city where the hero finds out what’s wrong.
So, one thing I’ve taught myself:
Don’t be afraid to try genres and elements of stories that you had never even taken into consideration.
I’m writing in a different style of POV as well. The four main characters–Martin, Toby, Alik, and a mysterious entity known as The Number–tell the story. But I couldn’t decide if I should do third person. I feel most comfortable in first person, but how would I manage that with four main characters?
Once again, I pushed myself to do something I had never done before: I switched POV in different sections. I’m stretching my boundaries by doing something I normally would have scoffed at. Also, I’m trying it in present-tense.
Hopefully I will come through with a novel that is unusual and not like anything anyone’s ever read.
So do what must be done–think outside the box. Get out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself. Stretch those boundaries until you have conquered the world of fiction.
Do you ever browse the library and wonder, ‘all these books are the same’? Do you feel depressed and annoyed that nothing suits your interest? Then write them! Write something the world has never read before!
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