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Losing the love...
RokofAges75:
Yeah, I totally know what you mean. And it's so hard, after you know what it feels like to have that "one" that you are so totally into and that readers like and everything. It's like, how do I top that one? How do I create that magic again? I have no answers for that LOL. But it'll come...
I tend to forget this, but I think I went through a little mini-slump like this the year before I started Broken. I finished a story called Years of Grace towards the end of 2001, and I didn't start another novel of my own for five months... which, at the time, was like, whoa! Five months seemed like a really long time. I did write stuff in between there... that's when we started Code Blue, and I wrote some short stories and stuff, but it was weird to not have a novel of my own to work on, cause I always had. I don't remember what my problem was then... maybe a lack of ideas? I dunno. But I worked on small projects here and there, and then eventually I got a new story idea and wrote You'll Never Walk Alone... and then a couple months after that, it was Broken, and I was set for five years LOL. You just never know when the "right" idea will hit, but it doesn't always happen when you want it to LOL. But it will happen at some point. :)
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: mare on June 07, 2008, 02:03:05 PM --- there we go!
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Can I be in on this group hug? *looks hopeful*
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: honey on June 07, 2008, 11:52:13 AM ---LMAO true. If you can finish Pbox after how many years, then certainly I'll be ok eventually. :P
speaking of pbox...
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Two and a half. lol Most of it was me not writing though. :( I need some new inspiration. I still have that fluffy romance I thought about writing, but I can't seem to motivate myself to do it. lol And then I wanted to change the end and blah.
mare:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on June 07, 2008, 03:08:25 PM ---Can I be in on this group hug? *looks hopeful*
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Of course, you can be the pink one! lol
Rose:
Kelly it's okay, I've been updating less myself thanks to work getting in the way, I'm too pooped to write. I have like 4 chapters for 4 stories started all with only like 3 pages lol. Right now the only thing I can really churn out is 00Carter. So I'm relaxing and waiting till the muse hits. I'm not so much in a slump as just tired lol, but I get how you feel. I'd give advice but everyone's said the good stuff :P
--- Quote from: mare on June 07, 2008, 01:52:03 PM ---My advice about the quitting thing, because i'm the same way, is kind of simple. Just don't quit lol So what if you go for a long time without updating something. It doesn't mean you'll never go back to it. If you are the type that doesn't quit, than most likely you'll see the story through so no worries about that. If people are invested in the story they'll come back to it when you do. I mean look at you guys and Yesterday's Blue Skies. Maria hasn't updated that one in years but if she did tomorrow i'm sure we'll all be there reading it.
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So true, Divisions Of Reality I've had going since 03 and with the loss of a writer and sparse updates, I still have people who've stuck with it since day one. Readers when they truly love a story, they're loyal. They wait, and many still come back. Or maybe it's just sci-fis lol.
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