Getting Back To My Roots

I was tidying up around my room the other day and came upon a very dusty pile of papers that had been sitting on the bottom shelf of my end table. The papers turned out to be half started novels, outlines, and plots for various novels that I had completely forgotten about.

Of course, I stopped cleaning, sat on my bed, and read through all the pages. There was one story idea that caught my attention. Now, I’m from Scotland, and we have a lot of myths and creatures that I have always felt would make a great fantasy novel. So, it turns out I’d written a bunch of creatures down, made a map of the world (which is basically just Scotland with details like forests, lakes and mountains changed), and plotted out some of the story.

I was really excited when I unearthed this and I thought to myself ‘Stick with vampires that I’m only just interested in, or switch to a mythical Scotland that I’m totally excited about?‘ The decision was an easy one really.

So, now I’m writing about Angela McCrae and her soon to be adventures in the mythical Scotland. She actually starts out in the real Scotland and gets transported to the alternate universe where all the myths are true. I don’t have a lot for the plot right now, the outline is very vague, but I’ve got 800 words written already and I’m excited to see where it goes.

So, that’s my little update for the day. I’ve switched stories yet again. No wonder it takes me ages to finish anything.