Wow... (another update) · 1:13am Nov 18th, 2019
I set myself up, didn't I?
I'm going to be honest with you guys: this next story is psyching me out. Every time I feel like working on it, there's this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that just stops me. Even a few words into more brainstorming or trying to write, I just think that it's going to be disappointing. Maybe some people are going to say: "Well, don't write it." But...
What the hell am I supposed to do? Leave it on a cliffhanger? I can't abandon it there. I've set the bar to that and anything beneath that, to me, is unworthy to give to you.
I've psyched myself out so much that I haven't even started writing it. Not one word. Every blog, every comment, and favorite I've given to some other authors are out of distraction and fear. It might sound pathetic, but a silly little fictitious work that I'm writing, to which I can bend the rules if I want, is killing my incentive. (I choose not to break canon as this trilogy takes place between School Daze [S8E1&2] and Molt Down [S8E11], so I don't have a whole lot to play with at the moment)
To everyone that has been waiting for months on this sequel, I'm sorry. You'll have to wait a bit more. I feel like I fucked myself over by setting myself up for a sequel that will be LONG overdue. I'll try my best, but fuck my stupid inner thoughts because it's going to be a while. How long? I don't know.
Sorry to disappoint y'all. Thanks for your support. I still get pings to this day on my work and it means a lot. Now if only I could channel some of your writing abilities to get something down lol.
Peace.
Writing is rough. If it helps, I like to say writer's block is mostly fear and self-doubt. If I don't set expectations for myself I find that the writing turns out better.
I believe in you.
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Thanks for your support and advice. That means a lot.
I wish my brain wasn't hardwired like that because writing is super grating that way.
Art takes time I always like to say... my best friend does digital art and he sometimes stuggles with anxiety about his art, constantly trying to perfect it, or feels bad about making art slowly, or not enough of it, or not even working on art at all in a given day or days, especially while working a full time job, but I tell him that its okay, you dont have to work on anything if you just dont feel like it.
Go at your own pace, even if its a few lines of color or a few words a day, or nothing at all. That okay, sometimes one need breaks from their hobbys to recharge, or to come at a problem from a different angle.
Art takes time.
Besides, personally, Im in no hurry as I got too many stories in my read later list to get to, and Im very patient.
I believe in you.
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Thank you. I do appreciate your support. It means a lot.
Maybe you could try methods to uncluster your head... Breath in, try to think about the way you want to do the fic while you are in the shower, read other fics to take inspiration, re-watch the show...
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Those are good ideas. Thank you.
I've been actually writing some of the stuff I want to see in a notebook. Like physically writing it down rather than staring at a blank word document. It's helping, but maybe I'll implement some of those ideas and see what happens. Thank you for your support!