Too relatable. Go ahead with your story idea, you never know where it might lead
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Anyway, I donāt think novels should be history accurate as we are all using our imagination.
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Depends on the type of novel
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Only a sith deals in absolutes.
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I feel like it depends on the context, some stories and games are based off real life countries and areas so people make it more historically accurate to code the culture and ethnicity for the reader
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Need I repeat myself?
Only a sith deals in absolutes.
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How would angsty university kids react to meeting a squid girl?
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True.
True true.
Just realised that I misworded my opinion there as it was late night. I meant my novel isnāt historically accurate and it is only set in the UK. But yeah, some novels can be historically accurate depending on the context. Like for example, Assassins Creed (the game) is historically accurate I guess although when it comes to writing, I like to use my imagination and make up random stuff you know. I could pretend death penalty is legal in some countries.
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Exactly. I like my stories being accurate, but sometimes I gotta bend the laws and rules a bit
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Thatās what I meant. But yeah, not all stories have to be historically accurate unless youāre writing about a story that is set in certain times and stuff. I was going to write a prequel for His Temptress but Iād feel that itād be too intense because it would be set in the 60s or 70s cause itād be about Mezoriaās parents and it might be too triggering because mentions of honour killings and so on.
Although, His Temptress is set around 2020 (without the pandemic).
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Ahhh, okay. Most of my stories are set in the present day (after a time skip) without the pandemic.
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I literally have outlines for 20 books but i have never written them
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What is stopping you?
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I swear, Iāve been like cutting out certain scenes and like changing certain ideas for my book because I feel that some of the characters arenāt relevant to the story even though I have decided who I want to kill off and who is the actual villain of the story etc.
I really hope I get my story done by the end of 2022 as I recently got out of burnout. Writerās block is a biassh!
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Too many ideas, so little time.
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Well, when you consider that it took some of the greats their whole lives to write their works, then you start to realize how much time you actually have.
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This probably happens a lot to me because I write in English which isnāt my first language butā¦ the amount of time I waste just staring at a sentence and wondering if it makes sense to anyone else apart from me 
It sounds correct to me but will anyone else understand it? Am I even using the correct words and grammar? Why canāt I just worry about that once Iām in the proofreading phase? 
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Ugh so lots of people have one piece of writing that is just their baby, right? They just keep working on it and rewriting it and āimprovingā the characters?
Since I can no longer write it on Episode, this piece of writing has become the whole damn Queen of Freaks universe, the Lightbringers. Iāve completely rewritten QoF God knows how many times, every time I read a new piece of advice or start a new blog post on how to write well.
To be fair, this has made my characters much deeper and made me stray away from many of the tropes that I included simply because people on Episode loved to see them (there is still a ālove triangleā, I suppose, kinda, but itās not the usual āI canāt choose! Weeehā thing. Itās much more about her being in two different places in her mindset in different parts of the story and realising that one of the relationships is not healthy for her).
However, it means that as I improve one character, the others seem really superficial or two-dimensional.
Iāve always struggled to make Theo an interesting character. Heās kinda my ideal man, in my opinion. That makes it really hard for me to put a flaw on him without making it seem forced, though. It feels as though I just tacked it on at the end. I donāt want him to be perfect, but I feel like Iām struggling to find a meaningful flaw for my ideal man! Plus, how do I do that without losing the purpose he serves in the story and the meaning he has for Evanna?
Iāve completely overhauled Evannaās character. Sheās not shy and unsure anymore. Sheās fiercely independent and feels as though asking for or accepting help makes her weak. Her biggest driving force in the story is freedom, but the big lie that she believes is that she has to be completely independent to be free. Thatās much more of a compelling character, in my opinion, but I am losing sleep over how to do the same to Theo and create an interesting dynamic between them ā to make him a foil to her in some way.
Her best friend Susannah is the one who tries to teach her that strength comes from solidarity and not from solitude, so what does Theo teach her? What does she teach him? AHHHH
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Yes this AND the fact when you do stick to one of the ideas, you think of the perfect setting, the perfect end (or ending choice that would let readers get different endings) but you just get stuck at the middle bit
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