how do i control my fantasy world?

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i have had a overbearing fantasy world in my head for nearly 10+ years, it has a story, a history, multiple universes, thousands of worlds, three kinds of space [not space travel but space itself] 50+ characters both copyrighted and orginal. an advanced method of space travel, and multi dimensional communication method that even works through time zones, people in the future can call others in the past.

so in other words my world is huge and complicated.

it hounds me 24\7 and drifting in and out is most of the time not by choice.

i find overstimluating my mind actually helps me to get a break from it, beat hazard is the best thing to do it with. other games like dragon age or other games that have characters in my world keep the world at bay but playing them for a long time is pure mental torture, because when i see those characters i think of my world, i can't drift into my world so it's like war going on in my head.

i was on abilify for it, but it gave me erratic muscle twitching in my eyes [let me tell you that is annoying] i still get the twitchy feeling to this day. we had no idea the twitch was from the pills till i looked up the side-effects. i had taken it for a little over a year by then.

is there anything i can do to control this world of mine? relaxing doesn't help it makes it worse.

Would writing a book based on it or something creative like that help you uh... consummate this world for lack of a better term?

Short of plugging a joystick into your head, I would agree with the writing idea. I have written for publication and much of it is based on my fantasy world.

Put it onto paper in some way, is my suggestion.
Why leave it sitting in your head?
You could even have artwork to accompany it.

Write it a bit at a time.

I have a big imaginary world too-however it's armed forces and police keep it under control perfectly well.

Write stories about it...it sounds like you could publish them and become an acomplished writer...

yeah i need to write it down, but that's what i need to control it in order to do. i tried writing it down 5 times i think. but it's always changing even when i don't want it to.

not only that the main story as i call it has had about 30+ branch stories which are smaller stories that tie in with the main one.

the original story was about a girl named torch who became a legend, it was about her life and the lives of those she encountered. it is now more about the planet she lives on, the city she governs, and the 100 or more universes that are connected to it.

if i do try to write it again i'm going to try to get it back to the original idea, the story as it is now is to complicated to write down and keep everything straight.

this world is also where 8 books full of art came from, sure not much of it was good but still. i don't draw anymore though.

right now i'm kinda trapped it's my strong will vs. this world in my head, and for once in my life my stubbornness is not enough. and i'm as stubborn as a mule.

Um, maybe take a break from it for a while. Like every time you consciously realize you are thinking about it try to shift your attention to anything else. Even if it means repeating multiplication tables in your head or something like that. It will be really hard at first, but then it should get better until you are more about to attention shift. But it will take time. Then once you can shift better and are more aware of it you can go back to letting yourself consciously think about it some.

I have a huge world in my head too. But the main characters die off every once in a while(they can't always have the happy ending, it has to be realistic) and I come to a roadblock, so that gives my some "relief." I know how easy it is to get stuck in your head all day every day. It is generally what I do when I get a break from school and other people.

Would it not be a good idea to try and tie in your fantasy world with whatever you should be doing? I'm thinking it could be possible to combine the two.

Many sci-fi/fantasy books are more about the worlds the characters live in than the characters themselves. Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville, is like that. It's certainly not wrong to write something that way, but you have a harder time engaging an audience. If you haven't already, write from a first person perspective, and stick with it. Let the reader discover the world through just one set of eyes. That way you can discipline yourself in what you show your readers, and hopefully what you show yourself in your head.

Draw a shedload of pictures.

Sounds like an interesting world. Sorry about the headaches.

For years and years I have had stories in my head, not always about fantasy worlds but detailed enough and then finally I decided to stick with one story, because I could spend two or three weeks on one story then suddenly think of something else.
So, with the help of medication I have managed to spend time planning and writing a whole science fiction series. On the weekends I do get other stories in my head when I'm not focusing on this main story.

Writing a book is a lot of work especially for someone with executive dysfunction or doesn't have that much knowledge about many things. My knowledge is high in certain areas but when you want to write a really descriptive story it's hard to be able to describe everything and develop characters. I don't know, maybe that's just me.
But the main story I'm writing about is my central imagination world. And I really hope one day the first book can be published.

One of the problems many people on the spectrum have is being organised. To write a story you need to do a lot of planning before you even start writing a first chapter. And you have to discipline yourself which is hard if you haven't got a prescription for ADHD meds.

I think that's the thing with you. You are saying 'no, I can't do that it's too hard' but sometimes we've just got to grit our teeth and work out ways to come to a solution even if it feels really uncomfortable. I put this novel off about 4 months which felt like a lot of procrastination for me. Now that I realise it, it wasn't that much of a wait. But like I said I have the help of medication which starts me up then at night when it wears off and my head is buzzing with my story I have to drag myself away from my warm lounge room and add to a chapter.
My story changes too which gets annoying but that's how authors write. Their story develops into something else and sometimes I try my best to not go with my new ideas at first until I've got my first draft finished.

You need to be more disciplined. My whole life I've fought with these stories in my head. It got so bad at school that I had to stop myself from thinking about them because it was interfering with me doing school assignments and after some time they became less and less, but now I've started up again.

Anyway, hope some things I said helped. I'm only such a pushy person because the only way I can be organised and get anything done is to be strict on myself.