Oh, that's interesting. I've always liked film, and once I started working on film sets, and was able to mix it in with writing, something I've done since I was a kid, so I almost started my process with seeing images rather than words, then trying to write my images and the attached feelings alongside it. Screenplays I don't get to be inside a character's head, but I get to show the images, so I'm kind of simultaneously creating the same story from different perspectives because I think that the same stories in different mediums can enhance both if done correctly.
I had a lot of moving parts I wanted, and it's sort of like a Shakespearean History, I even almost went to name the chapters Act 1 Scene 1, and so forth, and I wanted to create a long story with characters that have an insane amount of growth because they were generally forced to grow up because of the events of the world they are in, typical fantasy, so I basically ebbed and flowed my way into telling the story I needed for the characters to go on the journey I wanted them to see. I have a lot of characters.
Frankly, I always wanted to make my own Mario Party like game because I loved Mario party, I used to create games, and have my siblings pick out my toys, and we would play games like that, so I wanted to make my own long lasting epic fantasy series in a way where I could use my game creation ideas (not the coding side of things) to create like a Mario esque Nintendo line of games, so it was going to be long, and after plotting a rough structure (I like to bend the rules of structure, similar to my mindset on game design shown through the games I mod), it just kind of had to be 9. It's a 3 Act structure of trilogies, but they're not really trilogies because I think imbalance is beautiful.
Yeah, there's graphic moments still, I like to play with emotions ;p. I love me a good death. I write about Human Morality and Inclusiveness a lot, and I love melancholy, but like the moment when Eren in Attack on Titan turns and sees the Titan just casually staring over the wall before impending doom. Legendary.
A lot of times I have an issue staying on one project because if I come up with a new idea, I want to explore it.
But I've finally reached a point in my life where it's like, alright, I think I can manage to start setting myself up to do this full time instead of grinding out other jobs and film work, and I'm ready to direct one of my stories, so I have to get things going haha, so it's giving me a bit more motivation to finish it up.