Chasing My Muse · 2:52am Jun 7th, 2020
This happens to every author eventually, I suppose. I've simply lost the will/ability to continue working on any of my current projects.
It's from a combination of multiple things, but perhaps the clearest to identify is forced creativity. I won't bother to bore you all with the details, but suffice to say that the last two projects I've worked on (High Castle and an editing project) I have been dicked over on by other people after spending entirely too much effort working on. Combine that with stress from life and other bullshit, all of my creative drive for my projects has been sorta just... sapped out.
Not sure when I'll resume work on Nightmare, or if I'll continue High Castle, but I think I need to take a step back and get my ducks in a row. I'm not gonna make more empty promises of deadlines or promise progress, because that isn't something I am capable of at the moment. I'm not sure when I'll be capable of it, honestly. I look at an empty page and want to put words down or change things around, but that spark, that creative drive, is just no longer there.
So with that said, Nightmare will be going on hiatus for the foreseeable future. I don't want to inspire false hope that it'll be continued in the next few months, but I'm not going to outright cancel it yet.
I think... I think what I need is to find my muse, as cheesy as that might sound. I need to find that little spark of life I had when I first began writing Nightmare. This might take the form of experimenting with different types of stories and genres, or it might be me shutting down for some time. I don't know yet. But it would be a crime for me to continue writing something I'm no longer passionate about, and the quality of the work suffering as a result.
So... yeah. That's about it. Not sure what else I can say to explain the situation better offhand.
Understandable, take your time buddy :) Nobody wants you to suffer through it; it's no longer would be fun then, wouldn't it?
Hope when you catch the muse it will be as beautiful as ever. :)
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So do I, buddy. So do I.