It is a good feeling when you finally get past a hang up in your writing. I was stumped when I came to how my main character would discover the remnants of antediluvian colonists, and then once he discovered them, why were they the way they were.
I'm actually bringing back pieces of my first large writing of the Nefroidak story, which I trashed long long ago. Unfortunately, Maggie had read the entire thing, and marked all kinds of corrections and made suggestions. She was a little annoyed when I decided against that whole story line.
It's interesting that I'm coming full circle. In that storyline I had originally had the character become stranded on a planet, doomed to be invaded, with a people that had no concept of war and were lacking in technology. He was charged with teaching these people, very quickly, how to fight for themselves. That story line changed and morphed until I changed everything for the sake of flow. It became a detour and detracted from the rest of the story and warranted being dropped--a difficult decision for a writer.
However, I've expanded on my ideas and have given the overall concept serious thought. It's taken months of mulling over ideas and scenarios, and has actually been approximately five years since I wrote the original stranded on the planet storyline, but I think I'm decided on returning to that concept with some better directed alterations. I've also made the decision to write a series of books instead of just one large one. This will make it much simpler to convey every aspect of the storyline.
It's funny, because originally, I wrote this in first person, but have since, based off the recommendation of Aaron, changed to third person. I don't write from the perspective of omniscient third person however. I like the reader to wonder the same things as the main character and discover through his eyes. So, I've kept the personal structure that I had, but at least I'm not as limited when it comes to details.
I realize that I've shared some things here that are pretty major portions of the first book, but I don't think I've revealed enough to spoil it. I think it may take a trip to the dictionary to look up antediluvian. Even then, I don't think that knowledge will spoil it for you. Let's just say that I'm planning to write about Christianity and it's place in a society that's forgotten about it way off in the future.
Pray for me that the writing continues to flow. For now, I'm off to bed.
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