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So I'm trying to become a writer, but while working two jobs so that I can support myself and my fiance at the same time since she has a disease that causes her to fall ill nearly every other day or so which makes her unable to work due to the unpredictability. Every day while I'm at work I think about the world that I want to create and how certain things will progress and what all will actually happen as well as what I need to actually include in the text. At first I had an overly ambitious idea that I would have never finished, and since have downsized. I've already completed the majority of the major plot points in my outline, but there remains a few spots for character growth within that I had hoped to introduce some of the creatures of this fantasy world with.

Every day I come home from work and sit down for roughly thirty minutes while trying to figure out what kind of creatures I actually want to include in my story, but more often than not I come up with a blank. A while back I'd had an idea for some beings named 'The Unsung', who are basically the memories of fallen men and women who appear as ghostly versions of themselves and either stalk the lands searching for something that they could slay or accomplish that would grant them a mark of heroism and make their names sung in stories. I have were-beasts that vary by the regions of the world, I have vampyrs that come in two varieties which are the blood drinkers and the emotion eaters. Trees exist which hunger for flesh and have the souls and bodies of the dead stored in them.

I want more, but every time that I attempt to think of something I come up blank. I don't want to just reuse things found in other media. I'm hoping to create something as original as I possibly can, but it consistenlty proves more than I can handle and it's been tearing me up inside. Every time I sit down to finish creating my world, my thoughts are drawn towards actually starting my story and having my MC experience this world for his second time - since I'd attempted to write this once before and had fallen short with my story falling apart due to my lack of planning.