[Katsunami]

Some time ago, I finally started writing a bit, after having some sort of story in mind for quite some time. There are some problems:

- I'm now finding that I'm not up to the task (yet) to enlarge that story into a full-length novel. It feels as if I'm trying to pad the story to make it long enough to be a book.
- I have quite some scenes thought or written out, but they are not connected, and I don't have any way (yet) to connect them without again feeling that I'm padding the story.
- I don't have a world to write in (yet), and I don't feel like creating that world all at once.
- I don't have the time or commitment (yet) to write such a work.

So, summarized, I have this:
- Scenes, but disconnected.
- Parts of a world.
- Not enough experience to connect stuff into a large story.
- Not enough time to write a large story.
- I just want to have "something" finished earlier.

What I'm thinking about is:

Should I pick some of the scenes I have already written/sketched out, and make them into short stories, setting them in different parts of the same world, and maybe even set them in different time frames? They could hint at events that have happened, are happening, or could be happening, and they could allude to far-away locations, legends and myths. Then I'd be able to write stories about those events, locations, legends and myths, building the world more.

At some point, I'd have a bunch of stories, characters, locations, legends/myths/folklore, all growing into a world, with some kind of backstory already in place, which would make it easier (I think) writing a novella/novel-length story, using all o that material.

In short: instead of trying to plan a novel, just start out writing short stories and letting the world grow all by itself, to create a place for the novel to live in, eventually.

What do you think?