I know that I have the talent to write something that truly catches my interest and carries me away with the story, but for the longest time I've just had a few premises spanning various genres (romance, fantasy, urban fantasy) and nothing I could piece together into a story. I didn't have the passion for any of them, it was like I was trying to force the story to come out and the characters were flat and without motivation etc.
Then suddenly I woke tonight with a story flowing from my mind that is nothing like anything I'd considered before. I've been furiously typing my ideas out for the last 30 minutes, trying to get them all down before I forget them, and this thing is like a dystopian sci-fi set on a space station with a highly-stratified class system and a group of people trained to be soldiers from birth who are sent off to die at war with an unknown enemy who are selectively bred to be complacent with their lot in life, and one girl who bucks the breeding program to be a soldier with a mind of her own...
I feel like in a few days I'm going to realize this idea has all been done before, but for now the creative juices are flowing even though it's nothing like I thought I'd be writing, and I just have to share some of this energy here and then get to actually writing this thing before I lose steam!
Then suddenly I woke tonight with a story flowing from my mind that is nothing like anything I'd considered before. I've been furiously typing my ideas out for the last 30 minutes, trying to get them all down before I forget them, and this thing is like a dystopian sci-fi set on a space station with a highly-stratified class system and a group of people trained to be soldiers from birth who are sent off to die at war with an unknown enemy who are selectively bred to be complacent with their lot in life, and one girl who bucks the breeding program to be a soldier with a mind of her own...
I feel like in a few days I'm going to realize this idea has all been done before, but for now the creative juices are flowing even though it's nothing like I thought I'd be writing, and I just have to share some of this energy here and then get to actually writing this thing before I lose steam!
