IS IT JUST ME OR DO OTHER AUTHORS ALSO ENJOY GOING DOWN RABBIT HOLES?

Unlike many authors (from what I can glean) I have very minimalistic frameworks for the things I write. I do have some idea of the storyline in advance, but nothing concrete. The only thing that doesn’t change at all is the underlying concept that I want to put forward in the book itself. For example, in the first book of the Umbra Wars Series, The Antecedents of the Tripartite, I knew I wanted to explore the concepts of Love and Forgiveness. In fact, I knew that I wanted to find a way to show, even though it may be in a fictional setting, just how powerful these two virtues can be. Everything else was subject to change, and change it did! What I wrote in the moment dictated what I wrote next. The ebb and the flow resulted in the eventual meandering towards the desired outcome. In this second book, the title of which I am not yet sold on (so it will have to remain a mystery), I once again know the main concept I want to bring across. With that in mind, I initially wanted to start exploiting the understanding of manifestation quite early in the second book. I felt this would be a good way to ultimately present the concept I have in mind. In the first book I used quite a bit of detail to outline Martha’s concept of manifestation which she termed “visualation”. This being due to its mix of visualisation, meditation, and affirmation (and not just pure visualisation). It was a totally fictional way of setting something in place that could later become a major part of a sequel. I was thinking along the lines of someone in a physical life on Earth aiding a being in the afterlife achieve some major feat, using “visualations” to guide the story towards a defined outcome. I’m still thinking along those lines, but I have gone down a major rabbit hole, and one that I am thoroughly enjoying. I am expanding on the basic outline of the afterlife that I gave in the first book. This rabbit hole has turned my imaginary afterlife into a complex and structured hierarchical system, that I have had SO much fun creating. I’m just letting it go wherever it takes me!
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