Yeah, to be honest I feel the same. I thought that I would get a lot written last summer but that never materialized. Now I'm in my first quarter of college. I like to tell myself that I'm too busy to write, but I usually have a half-hour before I go to bed when I write on some of my original projects.
Part of me wants to go in and finish what I've started, while the other wants to move on to other stuff. I realize that when I started One Latias in ninth grade I was in a completely different frame of mind. In retrospect, it was something I wrote to cope with moving from a small Catholic school to a large public school. I didn't have many friends for the first two years, so One Latias was basically all I worked on in my free time.
Much of the story, especially early-on, mirrored what I was going through. Now that I'm starting to move out of that identity-crisis faze, One Latias and Elements do not seem as personal as they used to be, and it's more difficult to get engaged when writing them.
Meanwhile, the few original short stories and poems I've written have been well-received. I'm considering trying to publish one of them in a literary magazine, just to get my name out there. I've also started plotting a novel, and that that's been coming along nicely as well.
I still like to write. It calms my nerves and entertains me. It's just that as much as I hate to admit it, I don't feel as attached to fan fiction as I used to be.
So yeah...we seem to be at a turning point, and I'm just as divided as you.
Part of me wants to go in and finish what I've started, while the other wants to move on to other stuff. I realize that when I started One Latias in ninth grade I was in a completely different frame of mind. In retrospect, it was something I wrote to cope with moving from a small Catholic school to a large public school. I didn't have many friends for the first two years, so One Latias was basically all I worked on in my free time.
Much of the story, especially early-on, mirrored what I was going through. Now that I'm starting to move out of that identity-crisis faze, One Latias and Elements do not seem as personal as they used to be, and it's more difficult to get engaged when writing them.
Meanwhile, the few original short stories and poems I've written have been well-received. I'm considering trying to publish one of them in a literary magazine, just to get my name out there. I've also started plotting a novel, and that that's been coming along nicely as well.
I still like to write. It calms my nerves and entertains me. It's just that as much as I hate to admit it, I don't feel as attached to fan fiction as I used to be.
So yeah...we seem to be at a turning point, and I'm just as divided as you.
