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How Dungeons and Dragons let me Write my Fantasy Novel
I am a huge fantasy nerd. I know people say that ironically or after watching Lord of Rings for the first time, which is chill. That, however, isn’t me. I love the lore, the character backstories, and the epic history of the worlds. I’m one of the many in the obscure Game of Thrones Reddit threads talking about theories, backstories and so on.
And I embrace it, baby.
Being so invested in world-building, you bet I have tried writing my own stories. I have fresh concepts, compelling characters, a dynamic world, and political system, all of the boxes checked for a Game of Thrones version 2.0 basically.
I, however, do not have the strength for novel writing. I’m getting better, sure, but at the moment, any words I throw to paper will probably not be seeing the light of day.
It’s depressing honestly, to have such grand concepts and ideas but have them fall flat on blank space, never to be seen. The thing is, all of my ideas could probably fit into one or two pages, and at the end of it I know that a novel needs depth, and as I said, I’m not there yet.
So here we are in the same boat (maybe, I don’t know you), you have these neat ideas, and you want to see them come alive but lack the medium to convey them?
