/lit/ - Literature

>>20753940
>TWI sounds like it has this problem, is he just writing for the sake of it at this point, making shit up as he goes along?
Not at all. A lot of people have opnions on what The Wandering Inn surely is, because they cannot comprehend how something can be this long and yet still readable. Honestly, before I read TWI I thought the same.

Imagine this, you have a typical Epic Fantasy story. You get the main characters, some side PoVs, and the events that happen to them. There's start, middle and finish. It might take a few books. Now, imagine the same, but that the story is much, much larger. The beginning of it and setting up the setting and the characters doesn't take a single volume, but several. The scope of the plot is small at first, then widens with each consecutive volume. It starts at a level of a local city, then you get the major cities and continents. All of it woven into gripping storytelling and emotional character arcs.

And the thing is, it's not boring, people wouldn't read it if it was. TWI isn't stretched. It's just massive. But it's hard to convince people of that, because there isn't anything like TWI to compare it to. The author had an out-line of the story and its major events from the start, they are just continously filling it in, sometimes according to the plan, sometimes with new ideas.

And it's been written for 6 years now because the author is obssesed with it. They aren't writing for money, they are writing because they must, mentally. To quote the author:

>I wake up when I'm dozing off to sleep and write down ideas. Sometimes two dozen times which really annoys me when I'm low on sleep. I have ideas when I exercise, and I think of The Wandering Inn constantly, even if not actively.

>I have to. That's the only way to keep the story moving and breathing. I want to because I think if it was compartmentalized, I couldn't give it enough effort.

Honestly, just lock at pic rel, no point repeating what the author themselves wrote.
PS: Inb4 some seething idiot yet again start screeching about no one wanting to read about TWI, if you don't like stop fucking reading about it. It's on you to be as mentally derranged as to compulsively reading the stuff you dislike. Get your meds.