u/Deedo2017

I’m writing a story based on what makes a haunted house. Like every haunted house has a story behind it; a family once made it their home. Why isn’t that family there anymore? Why did the house decline? And what sins and secrets create the unfinished business that creates the ghosts that live in it? And how does it run parallel to the fall of small town America?

I’m thinking of making it an anthology of accounts of the fall of the family and the creation of the haunted house but I’m torn on how to do it:

1. A reporter interviews various people around town and each gives a testimony about the house and its story. It would be a mix of interviews and various other articles.

2. The ghosts’ story. Each ghost tells his or her own story about how the family and house became haunted and decayed. Each storyteller has his or her own biases and opinions.

3. A mix of both. The genre of my story is very much magical realism so there must be some way to do it, though I’m open to suggestions. If I could make this work, this might be preferable

I’m just getting an idea for general interest. My decision is my own but I’m interested in what yall think.

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I know that this is a very generic question at its root, but this is for me something more specific because of the circumstances.

I started a new game in the far east. As usual, the game prompt me with wanting weapons factories. So, I then built them. But they weren’t producing, so I built tool manufacturers, but they weren’t producing so I built iron Mills, but they weren’t producing so I built., But they weren’t producing because they weren’t enough tools being made. And the tools weren’t being made because there wasn’t enough wood being made, and the wood wasn’t being made because there weren’t enough tools being and on and on and on.

I have multiple factories geared towards gathering the‘s, but none of them produce. I have a decent population, but they’re all peasants. I’m at the end of my rope. I literally don’t know what else I can do every building is at the lowest production method

I'm writing my first novel right now and though its far from perfect, I feel defeated because I don't think this'll sell or that nobody will care. I'm not hunting after profit, but I feel like it would suck if I put all my heart into something and it either sucks or doesn't sell.

I am writing a political story mildly inspired by the game Suzerain and Ken Follet's century trilogy (in terms of style more than anything else). It's set in a fictional central asian soviet republic in the 0s following its leader as the world around him shifts. It's supposed to be an examination of the burdens of leadership and how it shapes a man, loosely based off of real historical figures of the time. It examines the themes of change, corruption, the collapse of idealism, mission vs responsibility to one's family, and the psychology of people who would make themselves "great men of history."

I'm kind of proud of my first draft (so far) but it's a very niche subject and I don't think I'm good enough at... anything to make it work. Should I just scrap this and write something more conventional and appealing? That's not to say that I don't have ideas in more conventional genres like fantasy but I like what I've written. I'm just worried it's a waste of time.