creating

[egypturnash]

I've seen so, so many people who build exhaustively detailed worlds and then can never write stories set in them, because the details take the place of characters.

— Carla Speed McNeil, "Finder: Dream Sequence" (endnotes)

Yeah, I've been there too. I've seen that in other people. I've fallen into it myself.

Comments

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

I actually enjoy the Silmarillon more than the other books, but I'm a monomythomaniac. ^.^ Really, tho, Sil is more like the notebook that Tolkien kept so he could write Hobbit and LotR.

Have you ever thought of hiring a co-writer?