Buccaneer Blogfest: Week Two, Day Six

I'm back again with day six of the month long Buccaneer Blogfest hosted by Sharon Bayliss and Courtney Young. 

Before I get started, first I'd like to thank everyone who commented on Wednesday's post. The continued support of Sibylline Nights is both greatly appreciated and very flattering. I'm pleased to hear everyone enjoyed my "hangers" and character interview.

Work in Progress - July 20: Share your light bulb moment with us. How did you come up with the idea for your WIP? 

I didn't really have one "Eureka!" moment when the idea flooded my mind. I've always been interested in magic, fantasy and witches. My early childhood stories all involved girls with magical powers.

I've also been heavily by things like Xmen, the Craft, Charmed, video games and the many wonderful fantasy books I read.

When I (again) started thinking about writing original fiction in 2009, the idea of three sisters with magical abilities came to mind. Back then it didn't have much of a plot, just that triplets had been separated at birth, and at eighteen  - along with meeting their grandmother - were reunited. 

It was in 2011, when I started work on the story for NaNoWriMo, that proper ideas came, and the worldbuilding - including the PID, the Orphic Plane and backstory - began to develop. 

Since then it's been a roller-coaster, and I feel like every time I edit and work on a scene/ chapter, I'm adding more details, and discovering new things.

A Break From Your Regularly Scheduled Blogging

I'm taking a quick break to "squee" over something briefly.

Today, I was watching this trailer for the new Bethesda published/ Arkane Studios developed dystopia steampunk-inspired video game (it looks awesome, btw, but that isn't the point of this post).

I was discussing with the hubby how the mechs/ robots in the trailer scared me, and how I think I've got a fear of machinery (I can't stand going in the Dwemer ruins in Skyrim).

Then BAM out of the blue I'm hit with a story idea. I jotted it all down quickly, and while cooking the dinner, Hubby and I discussed it in more detail so that I've now got a vague plot, back story and opening. I even have a protagonist ... Hen!

I can't wait to get started ... but I've got to hold myself back a little. Firstly, there's Sibylline Nights I have to finish editing. Secondly, this new story will take a lot of world-building, and I feel like I didn't do that well enough for Destiny's Road and that's why the story fell apart.

Right now, I'm thinking I'm going to spend the next six to eight months planning and plotting, and then my new story will be my NaNoWriMo 2012 novel.

Of course that means all the other stories on my "works" page will have to go on the back-burner, but that's okay because I wasn't one hundred percent committed to any of them yet. They're still vague, intangible ideas, where as this new ideas already seems to be bursting from me.

I cannot wait ...