A New Leaf · 2:30am Jan 2nd, 2013
Well, another year has come and gone. Some things change. Others don't. We all made resolutions, half of which we know we'll break in the next week. But I've made one I have no intention of breaking.
Before I get to that, I have a confession to make. Many of you have probably noticed a deplorable lack of updates to any of my stories, and a general lack of any new material at all. Oh, I could give the typical excuses that I've been busy - mind, while that isn't necessarily untrue, it is a contributing factor - but the main reason for my lack of... well, anything... is this.
I'm lazy. That's the high and the low of it. While I'm far from being a do-nothing couch potato, I still procrastinate on things way more than I really should. And that is why my new year's resolution for this year is to quit putting things off. This, of course, includes the stories that I seem to have had so much trouble writing. It's not fair of me to keep you waiting for months for a stupid oneshot about saurkraut, of all things (If I regret writing anything, it's that), and it's not fair of me to keep the trackers of my incomplete stories waiting for an update that seems like it'll never come. And it's most certainly not fair of me to keep Bronius waiting a week for me to edit a bloody prologue. It's not as if I haven't been able to write – far from it. Just for some reason, I seem to favour watching random YouTube videos and playing Minecraft to doing anything even remotely productive.
So I'm going to turn over a new leaf. And thank you all for staying with me, patiently waiting for this long. Especially you, Bronius. Were I in your position, my patience would have worn out long ago.
And I think the best place to start is by putting pen to paper (metaphorically, of course) and working on an update to my most widely tracked story to date: a rant about grammar cleverly disguised as a story called There, They're. I have ideas on where to go next. The only thing that's been stopping me has been crippling laziness.
But for now, I have nothing to show for it but a lot of hot air. I think it's about time I rectify that.
That spark that inspired you to write those fics is hard to recapture, but you can do it. Do you remember how fun it was to write those first few scenes of Tex? It didn't seem like something you had to force, did it? It just flowed out, and it was maybe even fun! That's what you can regain, and when you do, the chapters will aggravate you until you get a chance to write them. Good luck keeping this resolution!
Well I would love to see There, They're continue. Although Your Beutifull has been tiding me over.