Nights and weekends by buildspace is an event where you’re challenged to create something within 5 weeks. Regardless of how complete it is. The point is to set a goal and work towards it. The most important thing is why. Why would I want to write a novel? The simple answer is that I’ve always wanted to. I’ve always loved fantasy since I was a child. It’s quite literally magical. My main consumption of fantasy was anime. This meant things like Sword Art Online and Fairy Tail when I was around 13.
I didn’t interact with any meaningful fantasy media after that period and eventually rediscovered it one day with Danmachi. This started my interest in anime all over again and I eventually stumbled across Mushoku Tensei (MT). Immediately the Six-Faced World spoke to me. It was incredibly lived in. The world was incredibly rich with history which was only possible because it’s author Rifujin curious development of MT.
The development of MT was one which Rifujin took incredible care in and it was obvious how much care. Before MT, he wrote a story but scrapped it because it was too convoluted. But, the efforts didn’t go to waste. The events that occured in the original story was added into MT as major historical events. The original served as a prototype.
Just look at this. This event was only mentioned in the mainline MT novels. There wasn’t much detail, just bits and pieces from characters who’ve experienced it like immortal demons and people who’ve read books about it.
When I started writing my own story roughly two years ago just for myself and to share it with friends, it started off as blatant copying. I loved the idea of an underdog which was discriminated for one reason or another like Asta (Black Clover) or Naruto. Needless to say it was very bad. But overtime, I learned more about the types of story I enjoyed. Then anime adaptation for Frieren and Jujutsu Kaisen was released and I interacted with the story that way.
These two series fixed a lot of issues I had with other content. Sword Art Online, Fairy Tail, Danmachi, etc had one glaring issue. Which was the exposition was was too in your face. Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) is guilty of but has a slight pass because giving exposition is canonically tied to increasing the strength of your ability. JJK is incredibly fun with all the action and incredibly well defined rules when it came to cursed energy which is its power system. As time passed, I realised that I prefer writing done in a way where it is all show very little tell. A writing technique to provide exposition in a clean manner that isn’t intrusive.
The worlds of Danmachi, Naruto, Black Clover, etc are good in their own right. But they aren’t amazing. Mushoku Tensei has an amazing world, with incredibly rich history. So, my quest is to be able to write something that has the similar feel to Mushoku Tensei to honour it too.
My main driving factor is that I want to write a book someone would read. Which means that I have to write a world, people want to read about. A few days ago I was able to create a few historical events and I decided to showcase two of them on twitter. If you don’t want to go to twitter, here are the images anyways. But, I would appreciate the traffic.
Personally, I feell like these are some pretty cool events. The Elven Genocide is pretty on the nose. But, Tetralith is a very cool name. Tetra because my world called Torus has four continents - The Dustsong, Whiteharbour, Evergreen, Cirrostrata. “Lith” because I like “Monolith”.
I actually don’t have name for this series. For now I’m going to name it Phase Rush. After my favourite rune in League of Legends LOL.