There are moments in life when I am unhappy with the way that I live.
It isn't the quality, I have great parents, go to an amazing school, am never short on money, healthy, smart, and overall comfortable. So it isn't the basics. No, it is the fact that my life is bland. I do the normal requirements of life and that is it, living on the most level plain of existence. I have sculpted my life to the point that I don't even do anything bad. I don’t drink myself into the stupid situation, I don’t spend money I don't have, and I don’t even arrive late. There is only one vice in my life, I consume massive quantities of fantasy literature.
The number of words I read per week isn't in thousands it is in tens of thousands, and the longer the better. A new book every two days, on top of multiple stories that I read as new chapters are released. I have spent thousands of hours at this point, and while I might take a break every so often, it has been something that I have always fallen back to.
The thing is, I want to be better. Be strong, smart, and willing just like every main character, wading into the unknown like all the explorers, and able to push the limits of what was thought possible as all the crazy scientists. With literature being my strong point, I picked up self-help books and amazing autobiographies, searching for the answers. But there was no connection, no long-term success, I was good for about a week until I slacked off and moved to the next fantasy instead. I still have bouts of inspiration where I work for a week but something bumps me off the schedule and I don't fight to get back on.
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So today I decided to change it up. If the formulas and lifestyles don't work for me, then I will make my own, using the sources that I like best. This will be my therapy and my adventure story. I can write it page by page until I am happy with the way that my story is unfolding. This will be my diary, my status page, and my skill tree. A way to both document life and improve one as well.
Hell, I already have the perfect origin for a transmutation (disliked) story, living in college, middle of a road student, never really worked that hard, and never really got anywhere. All I need to do is get hit by a bus and there you go straight to fantasy land.
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I am going to publish this story not for you, but for me. To hold myself accountable for the continued process of this story. I have so much respect and support for this community and the creators that fill it full of wonderful worlds. So it will be posted here alongside all of these masterpieces, if you read it and it helps you, then great. If nobody ever sees it then that is fine as well.
It will be set up as a bit of self-help, a bit of a short narrative essay, plotting my progress to the apex of the simple life. It will be my production but suggestions are always welcomed. I know that there are millions of people just like me, here to escape their lives but also want to make adventures of their own.