I think it is time to start trending in opposite directions. On the one hand, I am not so much engrained in the philosophy or as up to date as I mean to be in the way of the futurist. So much more is happening now than I know, and I don’t take the time to do the proper research. As such, I need to be doing so. At the same time, I really do want to write that great fantasy epic before I shed this mortal coil. Doing so requires me to actually build the world. I need to develop it to the point where I can see it and I know the history, and I know the peoples of the world, in order to shape characters who are based on that history and not some fanciful riff on what has been done thus far. The beauty of the Malazan book of the Fallen is that it accomplished that neatly. That is the path I seek to take.
So, I am really trying to accomplish two things at once. I’m trying to write stories about the future and about a fantasy past and do these things in parallel. It is a tough thing and one that requires time on task, and that is clearly the one thing I have yet to truly sink into. But why?
Not sure about that entirely. Yet I have thoughts.