So many unfinished stories! · 1:14pm Oct 7th, 2021
Started going through my favorites list to unfav stories that are either cancelled or just plain dead from lack of updates. I began with a 155-page list of favorites (I've read TENS OF MILLIONS of Ponee wurds), and cleaned up the last 30 pages, which went only from 2012 up to the first couple months of 2013... and got rid of 6 pages worth of unfinished stories just from that! Excluding all the one-shots, which made up the bulk of finished stories, I roughly estimate about 50% of the ongoing stories were dropped.
Some of them never made it past the first chapter, while others stopped suddenly due to writer's block which apparently never resolved.
And others that had gotten dozens of chapters along (which I'd enjoyed greatly in the early chapters) in retrospect, had already gone on way too long and meandered off into the weeds with no clear direction anymore. Those are the most disappointing, because they SHOULD have ended a long time ago.
In writing, it's important to know where your story is going, and when to end it. It's also as important to know what to leave out as much as what to include.
