Direction Of My Story Blog

(by kikicianjur on Deviant Art)

Today's focus is my story blog Of Orcs and Men, which is why I thought I'd go with a nice ferocious orc artwork at the top of the post. I really like this piece as it has a lot of detail and is just a great image to have in front of you when you're about to write about orcs fighting in a battle. kikicianjur has a lot more cool fantasy pieces on Deviant Art. If you liked this one go and see what else is out there.

It's been a while since my last post on my story blog and the main reason is that I've been more focused on my novel of late. I also had trouble with the next viewpoint, but now the post is basically finished and ready to go. It should be online tomorrow.

The trouble I was having with that post had to do with the character and setting of the scene. Also some hesitation about whose viewpoint is next and how quickly I want the story to progress. I've come to the realization that the story has always been more of a writing exercise and it started out with a very vague outline and just grew from there. For a while, I had been updating the story quite regularly and I enjoyed that, but looking back I also believe that I lost some time I could have invested in my novel. I gained a lot from the experience of writing, so the time wasn't wasted, but I could have been more productive on a more important project.

In conclusion, I'll treat the story as what it was supposed to be. A practice project in which I work on my craft. From now on all of the new posts will be more of first draft and I'll try to explore more themes to widen my horizon. I still want to tell a good story, but I don't want too much of my time to go into this project that I have going on the side. Maybe I'll take some elements that I've experimented with or ideas that I've used here and implement them in future works or I'll end up taking all of the story and polishing it up so that it can be published. There's already a lot of good material there, but I've definitely improved as a writer since I started and I think I'd be able to do a much better job of it if I started all over again.

That won't be happening anytime soon, but it's nice to think that the potential for such an undertaking is there. These are all just thoughts and ideas, if things don't work out as I imagine then I'll have to see where to go from there.

I'll have another post up in a couple of days and like I said, there should be a new post on Of Orcs and Men tomorrow. See you soon.