First of all, Im sorry for staying silent for this long and I should probably have said at least something.
There were several reasons why I stopped writing, but there was mainly one reason. I just wasn't satisfied. And that is for two reasons.
The first reason is the way I was telling the story which I didnt quite like. Since it is pretty much the standard I told Alice story in chronological order starting from her early childhood, and there are a lot of backgroundstories and characters from her childhood that become important and make her into who she is. But the story I wanted to tell only really beginns when she is a few years older, so I was "forced" to write about things I didnt really want to write about and a rough estimate for the number of chapters that it would have taken is somewhere around 2-300. So.... yeah... You could say it felt like writing a prologue with world-record length. It wasnt easy to stay motivated. So I decided to change my approach and work with flashbacks again, starting the story from a later part of her life, although thats gonna make it a lot harder since I will have to make much ore precise plans on how and when to put in which flashback. I just hope it will turn out the way I want it to.
The second reason is that I always thought that something wasnt quite right and always felt off. But now I know, THE WORLD IS AT FAULT!!! XD
No, Im not a cringy hikiNEET that cant accept reality. Those who know a little about writing stories may know this already, but I will explain for those who dont. Every story is made up of three main elements. Those are, the characters, the story, and the world, and depending on the type of story you write you start from a different of these elements.
Lets take a slice-of-life story for example, you start of with a bunch of interesting characters, put them all into the same world (a japanese high-school for example) and then let them interact to create a story.
On the other hand, if you want to write a mystery story, you start of with the story itself, and put the right characters into the right roles.
In the case of my story, I created the characters and story pretty much side by side and put much thought into each of them. But I never actualy thought much about what kind of world would be the most fitting and just went with the most standard medivial setting. But after thinking about where the problem lies, I realized that it is the world, or the setting, that doesnt quite fit in.
In the end I decided on a more steam-punk-esque setting.
Considering all this, it might actually seem like a completely different story at first, but please believe me, it isnt.
But to be honest, after thinking about this story non-stop for this long, trying to make everything work left me pretty exhausted and I really need to take my mind of this story for some time. And when I get back to it, I still need to deal with lots and lots of worldbuilding which I am going to do in form of a wiki to make sure I dont forget any details.
So, yeah, I want to be fully prepared before I start writing this story again and its probably going to be a long time until then. (A month or two maybe?)
Well then, I am sorry that I stayed silent for so long, but if any of you is still interested in this story of mine, keep this in your library and you will get an update as soon as I am back!
'Till then! And thanks for reading!