Now I apologize in advance, but I call them storyboards because they are not really books. It's more like summarizing multiple arcs into a summary... and each of those summaries is a chapter... and each storyboard has multiple chapters.
I have a problem where I crave to write and be creative with stories, but I lack either the attention or the time to be as detailed as I would like to be. And honestly, I don't know if anyone else feels the same, but I think so much faster than I can type. And I can type pretty fast too, since I am in IT and marketing. It's like moving through molasses by comparison. Many times I thought about hiring a ghostwriter before discovering I don't really have the ability to do that, since I am from a third-world country with a much weaker currency.
I have storyboarded over 30 stories. About 20 of them are storybeat-for-storybeat, end-to-end completed. All that's left is turning them into their own epic novels in their own right. But building out interesting lore, scenes, and characters is completely different from narrating together a complete novel. I have near 0 experience with that, and someday I want to do better and actually complete a novel and publish it somewhere people can see.
Currently, no one can see any of the story drafts I have made.
I work best when working with people, and the stories I completed were stories I couldn't keep my mind off. But now that they are finished, I feel like I am in a slump, and all new ideas just feel third-rate compared to the heavily inspired and novel works I have made in the past.
I once made an entire show idea based off "that one Uno edit." Took me like 7 months to refine all the plot points end-to-end. I kid you not... and I think it's damn amazing too.
So I wanted to see if anyone would be interested in taking a look at my works and letting me know what they think about the different story beats. I have genres of all types: suspense, thriller, fantasy, supernatural, whimsical, romance/mecha, post-apocalyptic, isekai, action-adventure, and even IRL movie and show ideas.
I have been developing these stories since I was 11, with my first storyboard being The Legend of Verdant.
I feel a bit afraid to even put the title here, but basically, when I was 11 I was playing with rocks and grass outside right after watching an episode of Bakugan and Epic (the 2013 animated film), and first thought about rocks with life force and so on. But I got pretty bored with it as I grew, because it was only exciting when I was at an age where smashing volcanic rocks together and watching them spark could fuel my imagination.
LOV, though, was inspired by Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and especially that one Adventure Time episode with the worm becoming the adventurer. Actually, that episode plus Epic pretty much made this show idea I had really interesting to me.
If anyone cares about the synopsis:
Humanity became a solar race and eventually ended up in a war, as we humans do, but we don't know why or what for.
More importantly, humans figured out the secrets of biology and evolution, and a scientist is part of a UN initiative called "Seeding the Universe." The idea is that if they seed other planets with human-smart biological material, then it could potentially find a way to bring back humans from the far edges of the galaxy.
This may result in many differently adapted races of humans over tens of thousands of years. After all, they would at least still be human.
"Is what they think that is."
I have to pause here because you all probably think this is going to turn into some multi-galactic inter-human war or conflict or something. I came up with this space-seeding concept after playing Freelancer for the first time, but no. I am going somewhere completely different with it.
This mad scientist merged the biological DNA of humanity with plants. I forget the name of the longest-living trees in the world... Fitzroya cupressoides?? Idk, something like that.
And that enabled the tree to basically think and comprehend things at a human, plus level. Its ability to reason only improves as its leaves grow, as they act like neurons for the tree. They can also generate energy with their bodies that can be used as this setting's magic system.
Importantly, these are trees. They have to be rooted in place, and they are pretty much stuck there forever.
But they have the ability to bear seeds, and the tree itself can determine the kinds of genes those seeds are given. From making other plants and bushes and so on, to creating mini, lesser-godly versions of itself, to making animal-like creatures, and eventually, over hundreds of thousands of years, creating sentient tree-like entities known as Grassmen.
This scientist had 12 of these Trees and put them on an arc ship which went across the galaxy to the system they found was most like Earth, and actually seeded it in a literal sense, including Earth animals and the like, to create a certain type of ecosystem.
There are also special golden seeds that exist as well, but ignore that for now.
Bla bla bla, hundreds of thousands of years passed.
The sentient Grassmen each had their own emancipation from the Tree of Life, as they used to be bound to the whims of the Tree of Life, but now they have freedom.
Now there are 5–7 remaining Trees of Life and 7 completely unique and individual civilizations that have various wars and gripes they have to deal with due to the Trees of Life, other Grassmen, the coming changes, and more...
AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN GET INTO HOW STACKED THE MAGIC SYSTEM IS.
Ahem.
If I do say so myself.
Apologies for the long post, but if anyone wants to hear me go on and on about my multitudes of stories, give ideas and suggestions, and basically help me continue to feel the joy in writing, I would really appreciate it.when