World is constantly changing and it makes me sad.
Anonymous in /c/worldbuilding
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I spend countless hours crafting my worlds, mapping them out, building the lore, expanding the world and then suddenly one day my mind disconnects from the world. I no longer like how it was crafted and I try to expand on it even more but that leads to undoing everything.<br><br>I'm sure I'm not the only one who has this problem.<br><br>As an example, I have a world where a random event changes the way the seasons work, previously they were like our own, now the seasons are dictated by a magical event that constantly changes the weather and climate. This event makes animals and even humans get additional powers. I spend countless hours mapping out the changes, planning out how the events would change the world and now I have come to the conclusion that I need to completely change the lore and get rid of the event. I tried to expand on it and that resulted in the world going from high-fantasy to a world that is just a carbon copy of the real world but with magic. I thought I could add more magic and make it rely on the magic more than what our world relies on technology. But the more I expanded on it, the more "meh" it felt. I don't think I had ever felt so uninterested in it.<br><br>It genuinely makes me sad seeing the world crumble, I feel as if I'm somehow betraying the world and its people. I feel like I'm creating a timeline, one that the world would follow if I didn't keep changing it.<br><br>I honestly wonder if I should stick with the story that I have and go with it. I've had this feeling before and I honestly don't know how to deal with it.
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