Taking a break. · 8:44pm Oct 6th, 2014
I've been feeling a bit meh towards writing recently. Part of it is a rather legit reason, and part of it is admittedly me being stupid, but regardless, it's how I feel.
For the legit part: I've recently been feeling very...I don't know how to explain it, but "creatively bankrupt" could be appropriate. My lack of updating my current stories is not for a lack of desire to do so. Rather, I've found myself completely unable to get the old thought train running with ideas of how to continue. For like two months now, I've been so creatively drained that doing anything creative was nearly impossible for me.
Which brings me to the second, far more stupid reason for this break. A few days ago, I funally finished and posted my first new story (my first work of writing at all, actually) since July. I managed to break through my writer's block and put out a nearly 6000 word piece, one that I was very proud of and one that I think had done of my best writing in a good while.
Now, I don't go in expecting to get in the feature box, or even the popular box. All I go into the release of a new story with is hope that people will read it and enjoy it. However, this new story seems to have gotten practically no reception. I greatly appreciate those who did read and respond, but for a story I was so proud of, one that broke me out of my slump, I was really hoping for more. It was one of the quietest new story days that is seen in ages.
I mean, I understand that it didn't have any popular character tags, and that it was a one-shot released during (but unrelated to) the deluge of One-Shotober stories, and that not every story gets a ton of notice. I even realize that I'm whining just a smidge and overreacting a bit. But it's disheartening is all.
I will get back to writing when I can, but for now, I think it's best that I step back and take a break. When I get back, I might cancel an ongoing story or two, to streamline the amount of stuff I have to work with. I can promise you now, though, that the three that are absolutely safe from being cancelled are Little Sister Big Problem, Hood Rat, and Excess. The others...well, we'll see, but those three are absolutely safe.
See y'all when I'm ready to come back. I assume it'll be around 2-3 weeks, but not promising anything.
I know them feels, man. I've worked really hard on what I want to be the climactic end to one of my series, yet it only has a few hundred views atm. Perhaps a good thing since its prequels are planned for revision, but still...
Will you still be around on Skype?
This is a terrible month anyways. Taking a break throughout October is a fine idea.
Far as the story went, it was actually pretty good. Ending even suggests there was more to the story or could be more. And I could have sworn I saw your story on the feature box, filtered to not show mature fics, for a while. But it just didn't feel like it had the closure most of your other stories had.
But I think it's a bit of a sad moment when people side with the OC over the mane character in the story. I much enjoyed it for what it's worth. But it practically screams "5 parter" in terms of starting a marriage, mending bridges, starting on the road to having what she's been wanting, only to find she can't manage as much of the responsibilities as time goes by and have some sort of difficulties, that thing Jubilee didn't really have much of honestly, and just flesh out the characters' living situation in Dodge. Never got much of a feeling of what Dodge is like cept in passing.
It's probably just that I read too much fiction, but figured I'd speak up about it since I get a lot of those stupid moments myself in other situations. So from the really bad timing to be releasing fics during downtimes and fic events, I'd probably save any future one-shots or story updates for peak times. Nothing sucks more than being on the front page for less than 5-10 minutes when fics left and right sometimes.
And boy, you seem to be burning yourself out on all those multichap stories. Alternate between three and write scenes as they come to ya. That's the best thing I can say and don't focus so hard on writing the very next scene stuff, just do any scene any order as they come and the rest will fill itself. Usually.
Have a good one. Take care Twinkletail.
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Oh yeah, I'll still be on Skype just as much. Just taking a writing break.
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I definitely appreciate that you enjoyed it! Trust me, it wasn't the criticism on the ending that made me feel bad about it, because it was completely understandable. It was just the general lack of anything towards it for the most part. I didn't expect feature box, but I'd still hoped for at least popular box, and even barring that, at least an okay amount of views and such.
Definitely take a step back and relax. For what it's worth I did feel really badly For not loving that fic. I really did enjoy it up to that point.