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Possibly? But the burial would involve us clearing up where the plot lines we had planned end. So if in a year I could work on it again, I'd be working on stuff that everybody already knew the ending to, for at least a little while, and I don't foresee that helping with my bizarre 'don't have a muse for writing Incandescence' problem.

would paring adarins with other alicorn characters help? with characters from water or from elcenia or with edward and zev? likaaths and idanias? new characters?

I'm sort of tired of Adarins, too, unfortunately. Right now we think the best option's to have me leave both Bells and Adarins alone for a while and play with other things, so I can find both of them interesting again.

Aestrix wrote:Possibly? But the burial would involve us clearing up where the plot lines we had planned end. So if in a year I could work on it again, I'd be working on stuff that everybody already knew the ending to, for at least a little while, and I don't foresee that helping with my bizarre 'don't have a muse for writing Incandescence' problem.

I am not sure how to interpret this, I think that if you picked up Incandescence post-burial we would expect to have completely new peal-plots, unless your planned end is something like "and they invented a cure to all of the multiverse problems ever." I think I could be happy even if it was like individual threads ending "the peal found them, no more plot" after the burial, but that is me.

Aestrix wrote:I'm sort of tired of Adarins, too, unfortunately. Right now we think the best option's to have me leave both Bells and Adarins alone for a while and play with other things, so I can find both of them interesting again.

huh, I understand, but question: what is tiring about the Adarins? or for that matter Bells? It is just a variety thing?

Do you want help with new characters?

I think you should do whatever is best for you, whatever makes you happiest. If you try to write about something you're not interested in, the writing will suffer and you will be unhappy

We have plans for how certain things go, what will happen in certain places, how Prime/Aya will end up, etc. The thing about burying it is that we'll tell what those plans are, and then they're somewhat hard to write for people that don't like spoilers.

It's a variety thing, I think. I could try to force myself to do it anyway, but my writing (and mood) would suffer.

No thanks, I've got characters covered.

Thanks, Shoal. That was my view of the problem as well, I just don't like leaving things unfinished ^_^

I agree with Shoal, as do (I expect) most of the other people here. For many people, writing something uninteresting isn’t even an option.

How about new threads Idanias and childless Verons (and, depending on your feelings about them) twinless Zevs, etc. interacting with Ivans and Nathans and Didymes, etc. They can find their own interdimensional transport mechanism, and then once this becomes interesting again introduce this group to the Peal.

And it could be introduced the peal after some time has gone by. So we'd get the "and Prime and Aya worked it out or didn't" message and things would have some closure and then they meet up with the peal subjectively a few years later, during which time they [solved this and that which is glossed over in a summary and were busy and not looking for new people]. We wouldn't have to go back to how prime and aya worked it out except maybe in short flashback form, like if they're meeting some new people aya might share a story about her past with prime that is new-to-us-but-old-history-to-her. she wouldn't go into all the details necessarily just share snippets of things.

Lots of books have time jumps of a few years which is sometimes sad as a reader because i like to hear more about what happens after the resolution, want to hear more about peacetime and everybody is doing okay and see what doing okay looks like, but on the other hand it is a thing that happens in books and we're used to it and it is okay to skip stuff and to not write the parts that you're not feeling it.

I don't mean any of this now, just thinking about how to transition back into a peal after a burial if you ever wanted to without having to rewrite history, but still letting you have a burial that could be a final burial if it needed to be final because that's okay too.

DanielH wrote:I agree with Shoal, as do (I expect) most of the other people here. For many people, writing something uninteresting isn’t even an option.

Me third, sorry for not saying before >_<

DanielH wrote:How about new threads Idanias and childless Verons (and, depending on your feelings about them) twinless Zevs, etc. interacting with Ivans and Nathans and Didymes, etc. They can find their own interdimensional transport mechanism, and then once this becomes interesting again introduce this group to the Peal.

Alicorn has used Didyme? I am now vaguely want to put all those character in a car with Ivan driving

Sandboxes seem to be better for me in general, I suspect that any one thing in a very long form I'll get tired of eventually, sandboxes I just do it after the plot's been taken care of.

The timeskip's a pretty good idea, but there's some things that I genuinely think should be written down and not timeskipped over. And I don't know how to take care of those safely.