I admit it. I’m bad news as far as being an e-author goes. I write slow. Well, that’s not quite entirely true. I draft fast, but I revise and rewrite slow. I have to think and noodle and re-think and brainstorm…writing for me is a very messy process, and one that’s often done while multitasking something else.

Right now, I’m working on something that my critique partner calls “Big-Time Sci-Fi.” It’s a story that takes place in a distant future, space opera setting. It goes beyond world-building and into universe-building, and the sheer volume of just–stuff–that I’ve created as background is kinda getting overwhelming. Not that it’s not fun, but it’s got to be bad when you could conceivably create a lexicon about the same size as the book, it’s kinda troubling to wonder just how you’re going to fit all that deliciously detailed information into a story. More than a little so when you realize you can’t stop the action to detail the intricacies of pricing on the galactic food markets.

I love my worldbuilding. Love it with the passion of a thousand burning suns. However, it’s my strong point (relatively speaking). But it can be distracting from the main building blocks of good story, epecially when you’re avoiding said building blocks because you don’t like seeing your hero and heroine fighting, or failing at what they’re trying to do. Yet conflict maketh the story.

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