Thread:Firedance/@comment-29301-20171118225706/@comment-25898954-20171120235405

That's my boy. Good to see you're in a consistent writing mood these days. I recently started playing KotOR again for the first time since early 2015. How I've missed that game.

The problem with OtNotF was that it really grew in scale much faster than I could keep up. What started as a simple philosophical dialogue delving into the traditional (and I suppose Avellone-esque nontraditional) takes on the Force expanded into a discussion of Force-alignment in general, the effects the Force would have on both the behavioral psychological level and on a social/cultural level, and how that played into the topic of intergalactic governments (like the Republic, heavily shaped by the Jedi Order as it was). That led to a Plato's Republic-like discussion of ideal government types for Force-sensitive societies, and expanded on and on from there to topics like just warfare, hegemony, and related effects on law and public policy. By the time my progress came to an unexpected halt this time last year, I had several hundred thousand words of text and I was really mentally exhausted by the effort.

tl:dr I didn't pace myself properly for that project. I'd like to construct a shorter dialogue or narrative poem with a far narrower focus sometime soon, so you may see that in the reasonably near future.