I’ve been writing a novel and I think I might just chuck it all out.
My problem is that I always start with a simple premise. And then things get more and more fantastical until the whole thing gets weighed down by the bizarre plot line.
For example, in my current novel, what starts off as a simple connection between two people turns into a metaphysical journey into the transcendence of ecstasy.
I can’t just let my characters be happy. I have to launch them into an entirely new plane of existence where their minds become subsumed by a universal consciousness.
@atomicpoet You’re not alone! I have a similar problem with scope creep, although it often happens in the planning stages.
For a while, my cloud drive was a graveyard of great ideas. I kept biting off more than I could chew, with not enough breadcrumbs to move from the start of the story to the central idea.
I may actually pick up trying to write stories again, though. Part of me desperately loves world-building. A challenge I have for myself is to start by writing things that are comically low-stakes, like a plot to buy a coworker a cake to take advantage of their Costco membership.
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