I’ve made some changes to the book I’m writing. At first I was writing a book that was based on Final Fantasy I but now I’ve decided to write the story without any Final Fantasy references. The story was always in its own universe, but now I’m taking out the specific Final Fantasy items and character names. The story is now going to be told from the first person perspective in past tense. It is going to be told from the perspective of a young fighter named, Thax. I am currently in the stages of writing the BIOs for the characters. I am having a lot of fun writing Thax’s bio, and it is really helping writing about what his parents were like. I am also writing about who his father worked for. It is very exciting writing the bio and it feels great dusting off this story after taking such a long break from writing on it. It really would have been a shame if I just scrapped the story. I did hand write 250 pages of it already and pretty much did a draft of the entire thing. But I am currently reading, “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy” by Orson Scott Card and I am loving it. In the book it says that you should often take some time to think about your stories and let them gestate in your mind before writing the final drafts. And this is exactly what has happened with my story. I finished writing the first draft in late August 2009 and now I finally feel like I can dig back into it. This is an important lesson to think about for writing. Don’t give up on stories when you feel like they may not be perfect. Let them sit for a bit and them come back to them with a fresh mind. This way you can iron out flaws and come up with new ideas.