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cabybakes:
I'm with you, Julie and Mare.  Thanks for the feedback.  I have been taking little things out here and there...but it seems like a lot has been added too.  I have this whole section that I think is pretty unnecessary that can go.  And actually, I think where I am now could get me to the same ending but it just needs to be reworked. 

I do love to write, and I think starting something new may reignite my passion.  Do all writers feel this way at the end of a long, overdramatic story?

RokofAges75:
I can definitely relate from when I was writing By My Side LOL.  It has too many subplots, too much drama, and it is SO long.  I felt really accomplished when I finally did finish it the way I'd always planned to, but after that, I had a hard time getting back into another story.  If it wasn't for my collaborations and the few short stories I wrote, I wouldn't have been writing at all.  It took me like 10 months to start another novel that was worthy of posting, and even then, I hardly updated it.  Really, I didn't have another story of my own that I updated regularly until this summer - took me 2 1/2 years!  I was writing for Song for the Undead and 00Carter that whole time, but there's something special about having a novel in that works that is all your own.

I hope you're able to finish Casual and be proud of it, and then yes... start something new and different! :)

mare:
Yes, coming from one who is so close to finishing a story i've been working on forever that is full of plot twists, too much drama and is very overdramatic. It kind of sucks the life out of you. I am working onthe very last chapter now and it feels wonderful lol I thought i'd be sad but it's more of a relief than anything else. I'm sure i'll miss the characters but yeah, I would think that if I wasn't already working on a brand new story, I could easily see myself taking another long break lol

FrickingKaos:
It just makes me remember how I began the idea for Figured You Out like 6 years ago after I took a fanfic writing hiatus. I had been on FF.net for a long time and once they removed all BSB stuff, I had lost everything. Incomplete was my first story I posted here I believe. As for Figured You Out, the idea was floating in my head for years when all of a sudden it screamed to be posted. I usually dabble in ROM COM or AU...so it was a HUGE turn for me, I have received a great response so far and I have been inspired to write new things! Just goes to show that digging through old files on my computer helped a lot!

alota_cookin:

--- Quote from: cabybakes on August 20, 2010, 08:40:00 PM ---I do love to write, and I think starting something new may reignite my passion.  Do all writers feel this way at the end of a long, overdramatic story?

--- End quote ---

I'm completely overwhelmed with Life According to Baylee (and by association, Life After The Unexpected, too) because of the emotion and drama. Thus the reason my updates are SOOO far between. I have such a hard time motivating myself to write...I keep thinking "I really wanna write...eh, never mind, I don't wanna deal with it." and end up doing something else. So I totally understand where you're coming from with Casual.

Finally I decided to counteract my frustration with LATB by starting a new story. Visions of Love is a polar opposite of LATB. It's all comedy...even the little bits of drama that are thrown in, make me laugh, because I've put a very light mood to the story, in hopes that I will be able to get more for LATB done, just because I have VoL to counteract the drama. Does that make sense? VoL is like my stress release, I guess. It's going to be another novel, but not nearly as intense as LATB, so I'm actually pretty excited about it....I am even *gasp* outlining!  ???

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