Dragging My Feet...

[kneelb4todd]

You know that feeling when something has been a part of you for so long (say, a fanfic) and you've had plans for it forever, and you want it to be so good that you go to all the trouble of rewriting it, and then you plan out every detail in particular - okay, perhaps I'm being too specific. This is my fucking feeling. You can't have it.

Whatever.

Comments

[beyond_wonder]

I think you should do what you feel is best. If you aren't feeling it, and there's no passion for it, then leave it in the WIP bin. Don't toss it out completely because one day that might change, but if it's too much of a struggle and you are starting to resent it then don't touch it - because then story wont be written properly and it'll just be a bunch of words stuck to paper. Don't put so much pressure on yourself to finish it. Write the other stuff that you enjoy first, because the new stuff will fuel your passion, where as the other story with deplete it.

I know I should be encouraging you to finish it, but I wont, because I know how it feels, and when I look back at a certain stories last chapter I can't even bare to look at it anymore because all I can think of how garbage it is, and I wish I had just left it until I was feeling it again.

*hugs* I've got your back no matter what you choose to do.

[kneelb4todd]

I'm just going to chuck it, but I offered up the fic to anyone that wants to carry on writing it in their own fashion. I dunno, it's like a drain sucking on the essence of my soul everytime I look at it. I don't want to up and delete it just yet and make everyone all "WTF Todd?" because that's rude, but even if the plot advances in my head I just can't stand it anymore.

Besides, this is something I started when I was thirteen. I'd like to move on now. I've got much cooler stuff on the horizon anyway.