Recently, I have found myself working on my short stories less and less. It’s not because I don’t have a wealth of ideas that I want to capture and incorporate into my stories, but rather I am finding that the actual process of writing is not giving me the same level of enjoyment it once did. I spend about 10 hours a day starring at a computer screen for work, and coming home to stare at it some more has become more and more of a chore.
I have come to understand that I like the process of thinking about interesting science fiction technologies and their impacts on the worlds and cultures much more than I like the actual writing. The planning part of the story allows you to think at a much higher level – you can think about society and galaxies as a whole, rather than individual characters, their motivations and aspirations. So far, I haven’t been very proficient at creating a compelling connection between the impacts of the government, technology geography, etc. of a world with the individuals who would interact with them.
I have tried and tried to write at this high level, but I’m not sure if can be done by anyone who is not a science ficition master. Writing at this high level, I find myself trying to emulate Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, and obviously failing miserably. I am going to continue to capture any interesting thoughts or ideas that I have hoping that in the future I may be able to pull it all together but in the short time I am going to be pursuing a new medium to serve as my creative outlet
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