Plans to Rewrite EoP

I haven’t been writing or updating EoP at all lately. Last weekend was stake conference and that was when I decided to try to change things in my life to start working towards a temple recommend. Since then, I’ve been trying to set up this blog and establishing a schedule for painting commissions. Plus, along with the changes I am making, I also want to change the tone and direction of EoP. I originally wrote it as a dark fantasy, modern setting, geared towards an adult audience. Now I’m thinking I want to completely change gears with it and turn it into a Teen/Young Adult book series.

It made me sad that a lot of the things I was writing before, I wasn’t able to get a lot of support from my family because the books were not very wholesome in content. My Aunt Wendy likes to read novels to her girls before bed. She read them the Harry Potter books and that is why my cousin is such a big HP fan now. My dreams in the past might have been for lots of readers and to become a big name but now I aspire to write a book that my Aunt Wendy would read to her girls. I think I can turn EoP into that type of book.

It is not ready. In its current state, EoP has a lot of crude and harsh language in it and although no explicit content, it is suggestive of these types of relationships and situations. So, there needs to be a heavy overhaul of the content and tone to make it more palatable for younger readers. I’m about halfway done with Book 2 right now, so, I’m not sure which would be making more work for myself; stopping the flow right now to edit what I have written so far, or finishing as is and then editing the entire thing all at once. I could start writing it with the more tempered themes in mind but since previous scenes build upon each other, I’m probably going to end up writing things that will change anyway. I doubt the readers on Fictionpress will like it but I might remove the entire thing and start editing it right now, changing the story from the foundation up so that when I start writing again, it is already geared towards the themes I want to pursue.

For the longest time, my mother has told me that I should write and illustrate children’s books. I always looked down on this sort of writing and saw it as beneath me, despite the fact that I used to love books when I was little and have enjoyed plenty of YA books in my adulthood. To be honest, though, a lot of my story ideas sound like YA books, a little too goofy and fantastical for an adult audience. So, maybe this was what I was supposed to be doing all along? There I go, reclaiming parts of my past again.