The tokueko sounds absolutely fascinating, at the same time I do love the second idea. The fables might be very useful in a practical sense so might be great. I like the idea of short stories. The one you did previously about growing tomatoes I still think about now and then.
I enjoy reading everything you write so any of the options would make me a happy susubscriber. However, I think the farming fables is the most necessary of your options and a fantastic idea. I've toyed with a similar concept myself.
Haha, was out sick and sad I missed the doomed burst of effort! I think the first one sounds super interesting, but like others have said isn’t necessarily practical.
The fables sounds the most useful, although there is no reason one couldn’t swap out fables and short stories every once in a while or in alternating fashion to give yourself a break from either.
Might be a good way to get your Vitreous Womb fiction ideas out too? Just slowly distill them in short story format so you don’t feel like they were never expressed?
While it's a shame to not get any more of book 5, I'm glad you realised it wasn't the way forward early rather than wasting a lot of time and effort to create something you're not happy with.
As you've tried three times with a long-form format, I wonder if you'll try again in a different format in the future - the story is certainly there, it's just getting it transposed to the right medium. I hope at some point you'll find the way forward!
As for what you do next, I know your short-story writing is strong - I'd like to see the fable structure to see what you can do with it. Stories for kids are much more challenging than you'd think - very few words (less than 1,000 for early learning picture books) which all need to be precise, concise and rhythmical while getting across a serious message. A different challenge, but something unique that probably doesn't exist yet.
Maybe this cycle of variable enthusiasm is just my libran tendencies coming to the fore. I wont say never on the project, but I am not in a rush to devote another year or two of my life writing anything so big again. With the three short story ideas I have the freedom to jump between the projects, and given a diversity of enthusiasm for each of them they all seem to be viable.
It happens! I've started a few stories only to discover it wasn't the right time to finish them. Or more typically in my case, that I don't have the chops to finish them yet. I wonder though, do you ever create without an over-arching goal? I find it freeing even to write a disconnected scene without expectation of what greater purpose it serves.
The tokueko sounds like something Ted Chiang might write, and like a brilliant idea that deserves exploration, so I'm voting in that direction. Cozy Apocalypse could be really fun though, but I for one would have a difficult time not undermining the Cozy.
The right time in your life to devote to a longer piece of writing is absolutely true. Vitreous Womb happened because I was mentally exhausted from five years of non-stop farming. The arrival of a prolonged drought can also be an opportunity since there is little else I can do outside.
The tokueko sounds absolutely fascinating, at the same time I do love the second idea. The fables might be very useful in a practical sense so might be great. I like the idea of short stories. The one you did previously about growing tomatoes I still think about now and then.
I enjoy reading everything you write so any of the options would make me a happy susubscriber. However, I think the farming fables is the most necessary of your options and a fantastic idea. I've toyed with a similar concept myself.
Haha, was out sick and sad I missed the doomed burst of effort! I think the first one sounds super interesting, but like others have said isn’t necessarily practical.
The fables sounds the most useful, although there is no reason one couldn’t swap out fables and short stories every once in a while or in alternating fashion to give yourself a break from either.
Might be a good way to get your Vitreous Womb fiction ideas out too? Just slowly distill them in short story format so you don’t feel like they were never expressed?
While it's a shame to not get any more of book 5, I'm glad you realised it wasn't the way forward early rather than wasting a lot of time and effort to create something you're not happy with.
As you've tried three times with a long-form format, I wonder if you'll try again in a different format in the future - the story is certainly there, it's just getting it transposed to the right medium. I hope at some point you'll find the way forward!
As for what you do next, I know your short-story writing is strong - I'd like to see the fable structure to see what you can do with it. Stories for kids are much more challenging than you'd think - very few words (less than 1,000 for early learning picture books) which all need to be precise, concise and rhythmical while getting across a serious message. A different challenge, but something unique that probably doesn't exist yet.
Maybe this cycle of variable enthusiasm is just my libran tendencies coming to the fore. I wont say never on the project, but I am not in a rush to devote another year or two of my life writing anything so big again. With the three short story ideas I have the freedom to jump between the projects, and given a diversity of enthusiasm for each of them they all seem to be viable.
It happens! I've started a few stories only to discover it wasn't the right time to finish them. Or more typically in my case, that I don't have the chops to finish them yet. I wonder though, do you ever create without an over-arching goal? I find it freeing even to write a disconnected scene without expectation of what greater purpose it serves.
The tokueko sounds like something Ted Chiang might write, and like a brilliant idea that deserves exploration, so I'm voting in that direction. Cozy Apocalypse could be really fun though, but I for one would have a difficult time not undermining the Cozy.
The right time in your life to devote to a longer piece of writing is absolutely true. Vitreous Womb happened because I was mentally exhausted from five years of non-stop farming. The arrival of a prolonged drought can also be an opportunity since there is little else I can do outside.