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Starting my story from scratch? Argh!

Tags: #UJON  #Nerussa 
  • Member
    January 11, 2019

    So, I've been writing Nerussa's story for... gosh, nearly four years since the first post on Steam. I really like her, and her little group, and I'm pretty happy with a lot of what I've written, but I'm increasingly struggling with the 'journal with the odd long-form entry' format... Okay, I'm increasingly abandoning the journal entries part, let's be honest. And there's various things that I could have done better, things I could have introduced sooner (because I had no clue what I was doing, no idea where a lot of stuff was going, and a lot of things only occurred to me quite far into the writing of it), and I'd like to, well, structure it a bit better and so on. Which leads me to this point - I'm pretty sure I'm going to start over. I'm not quite sure what I'm posting this for, partly just because I want to announce it somewhere (and on the blog itself feels a bit wrong!) and partly because argh, WHAT AM I DOING?

     

    I'll also probably be restarting her playthrough when I get done with sorting a mod list, testing a few things, and such like, and I'm planning to use YASH rather than Requiem, still a pretty tough world, but in a different sort of way, and I want to introduce another follower or two and not have them show up halfway through the whole thing (because new mods have come out!) so it seems like a decent enough time to do this, I think. I may also use Spell Research, and definitely want to use Better Spell Learning (which fits with how I had her learning spells in the early stages of her story, although I somewhat glossed over the process later on, mainly because it can get a little tedious to be reading about someone making notes and whatnot, maybe? But I'd like to maybe keep that aspect a little more in the story.) 

  • January 11, 2019

    Hey gnewna!

    Glad to see you're continuing with Nerussa, but I totally undersand the desire to rewrite. I am currently rewriting large portions of Straag. It's hard. If there is something you want to discuss pertaining to plot or structure, just ask on your thread. 

  • Member
    January 11, 2019
    Cheers! I'm currently wrestling with the fact that Skyrim's main story kind of sucks. Like, god, sure, stop Aludin, I guess, who cares?
  • Member
    January 17, 2019

    Might post a short thing in the meantime, I'm about a quarter of the way through it (non-Nerussa.)