>>55823128You're welcome! Dunno if you're grappling with some flavor of Imposter Syndrome, but your writing is good and you're a lot more creative than you're giving yourself credit for. Just keep refining your craft, you're on the right track!
>I'm always trying to grasp at something beyond my current level of imagination and/or writing skill.Oh I feel that. My solution was to buy over 300 books as "research material". Dunno when I can realistically read all of them for there of any benefit to enriching my inner world and writing, but with the modest few I've already carved out time for, I feel the difference. And I'm talking old books: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, Bhagavad Gita, The Poem of the Cid, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (which I haven't finish yet, because it's long), and the Peter Kemp war triology, which are the experiences of a British war hero reaching back almost hundred years ago. I hope to start The Persian Expedition by Xenophon soon. There are many amazing books written across the ages and cultures.
Isn't that what they always say? To enrich your writing by reading something that inspires you?
I've got all these amazing books lined up as personal growth homework assignments, maybe you can find an armful that speak to you and they can share their secrets.
>The ideas and concepts that it's made of can always be reimagined or used somewhere else for an original story.I recycle ideas and characters from old/scrapped stories too. Often times, I'll make a creature and I just sit on it until I can figure out which story I can add it to. Which is kinda fun, because every little creation enriches the setting even if by only a little bit at a time.
>yoga pantsI don't own any yet, which is why I reached out for advice before to someone else. Typically I'm just wearing work jeans, but I'm making efforts to be more feminine in my choice of clothing. My husband appreciates it.
