If Kirk wasn’t posting here too I’d assume this was a private club 😹. Well that's OK, but on SPANDI my health blog is the most popular blog on the whole site! Maybe folks think it is just for me here, but really I'm hoping everyone can benefit from tracking progress here.
I was 18. No one at home, my mum absent for few days. I took a adults diapers packs in the supermarket, back in bus with my backpack, and let's pee and poop my diaper so bad like a rebel and free teenager haha!! 💩🌊
I concur with @cipher12. I'm no expert, but I've written a few things, and my work has repeatedly suffered from my getting enraptured with my new little terrarium of a world, and wanting to agonize over every detail of it. That, and my not physically planting my butt in the chair long enough to get stuff done; both are confounds that I repeatedly run up against. I spend a lot of time in front of my laptop for work, so it can be difficult to find the motivation to return to my desk, for purposes not related to my employment, but at the same time, I dream about these characters, and I feel unfulfilled when potential story arcs or scenes drain through the sieve that is my brain, before I get a chance to solidify them.
But I digress - my third major character flaw as a writer. The main point I wanted to get to is this: ALL, all, must be in service to the storyline. The story has supremacy over everything - characters, setting, scenery, and the mechanisms that turn in the background, such as social order or the environment or physics. Great stories are propelled by, well, great storylines. It can be very unfulfilling, both to the writer, and certainly, to the reader, to have created a cool new universe where, say, gravity is 1/3rd of what it is in the real world, and everyone gets around via telekinesis, and there is a master race of benign super-intelligent dwarfs, however their inbreeding is revealing increasingly obvious flaws in their thinking, and meanwhile, behind their planet's triple suns, lurks danger. Wow, neat, I'm hooked, tell me more. But then, nothing interesting happens, or it's all predictable, or every problem is solved by some version of magic, essentially the storyline equivalent of a lottery win, and the story itself, offers no return on investment.
So, barf the details of your incredible universe out into a glossary of sorts, and refer to that canon as necessary, to create a playground on which your characters enact your story, using only what is necessary to get them to where they are going, rather than turning what could have bene a decent a short story, into The Lord of the Rings, inadvertently, and vexing both yourself, and your audience. Or, if you're setting out to be Tolkein, then, come equipped with a story that has reach, staying power, and many chapters within it, and still, still, be parsimonious with unnecessary details.