My Epic Adventure in Epic Fantasy Writing

This is the start, right here. I’m pushing myself toward a goal I’ve had since I realised I could write the stories I couldn’t find anywhere else.

A lot has changed in the publishing world since I started learning the craft. Self publishing is a real option now what with Amazon and Kobo and so many other ways of getting your thoughts and dreams into the hands of other people. Traditional publishing is an option I’m still open to, but I am looking for a challenge right now.

It hasn’t been easy getting to a place where I’m willing to take this risk. I spent a few years thinking those dreams were just that, dreams. I felt stuck in the life that seemed to have been built around me without realising it. Then, one day, I was handed a challenge I’d never really thought I could handle and met it and succeeded. That challenge stimulated my need for more challenges in my life an in September of 2019 I joined a local writing group, at which I was reminded about NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I’d taken part in it before, but never succeeded in the daunting 50,000 words in one month goal. But I was going to do it this time. I wanted to use to to power through the remainder of a story I had last worked on ten years prior.

And I did it. I met my goal. It felt amazing! I am totally addicted to that feeling now. I set more goals for myself. In the time since November 2019, I have rewritten the chapters I had written those ten years ago and revised up to chapter twenty as of this day. I’ve reworked the story and have a total of 160, 551 words in the manuscript, and I’m not even done revising yet. Eventually I’ll have to reduce that word count if possible, but for now I’m not too worried about it. I hope to be done Draft 3 by the end of August at the latest so that I can finally get some eyes on the manuscript and receive feedback. Since this is my first time doing this, I’m not being hard on myself, but I do have daily and weekly goals that I am trying to meet.