25 Days of Writing: Day 23 - Oldest Story Idea
Monday, May 10th, 2021 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogel23. What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?
The exiled former commander is living alone on a mountaintop when her trusted second-in-command arrives to call her back to duty. All is forgiven, he tells her, if only she will come back and lead the army against this strange new threat. She trusts the crown's promises not at all, but she can't abandon the troops who need her. So back she goes.
This thing has been in my head for decades; it was always going to be my first novel, until something else was. It has since acquired a plot of sorts; it's also acquired a research list in an area I have no facility with (chemistry), which is part of the reason it's still on the to-write list. That, and back when I first committed to the novel-in-a-year challenge with the old ex-writing group, I didn't think I was up to this one yet, and I didn't want to screw it up. I think I've got the skills to do it justice now, but there's that research....
The exiled former commander is living alone on a mountaintop when her trusted second-in-command arrives to call her back to duty. All is forgiven, he tells her, if only she will come back and lead the army against this strange new threat. She trusts the crown's promises not at all, but she can't abandon the troops who need her. So back she goes.
This thing has been in my head for decades; it was always going to be my first novel, until something else was. It has since acquired a plot of sorts; it's also acquired a research list in an area I have no facility with (chemistry), which is part of the reason it's still on the to-write list. That, and back when I first committed to the novel-in-a-year challenge with the old ex-writing group, I didn't think I was up to this one yet, and I didn't want to screw it up. I think I've got the skills to do it justice now, but there's that research....
