Hi all,
This is too important to be left unsaid, so here goes.
For the first time, I'm able to write and come up with ideas without having to go into my melancholy mood. In the past, ideas only come when I'm feeling depressed, which means, once I'm back to normal, they are gone and the urge to write fades away, so it was hard for me to make use of those ideas I gained. This time it is different. I'm happy with what I'm doing and I can let my mind and imagination run free unconstrained by the black mood, so I'm free!
So let's see how that will effect my writing. I'm going to try to write my very own fantasy epic. I'm really excited about it. At the moment, I'm done with outlining plots. However I still need to tidy up the ending. Hmm, maybe next time I'll try coming up with the ending then figuring out the beginning later on. Reminds me of this quotation: "Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution".
I spent most of today creating the evil dark lord in my fantasy world. It was not easy. It took me 3 days to come up with a credible dark lord. Now I realised how useful those psychology classes were, and possibly I may have to dig up my notes from time to time, but I think this dark lord of mine is evil enough.
I'll try to post my progress as I go along.
Next thing to do: read and research rise and fall of the Roman empire and Greek civilisation. I'm not going to write historical fiction, I just want to use this part of history as a guide and tweak here and there to make up the society of my world and everything related to it.
Suddenly, history and anthropology/sociology are beginning to be fascinating subjects, I'll just add another one in, creative writing.
