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Message: [QUOTE="sun0wl, post: 235153, member: 133365"] I love writing but I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to keeping my relationship with the medium healthy and consistent. I wrote a historical fiction novel 7 years ago about members of the Polish Resistance in WW2 and have been putting off writing a second draft ever since, despite getting an amazing professional editor to do an editorial letter and structural/line editing (!) for me for free and telling me I should find an agent...Then a few years ago during a very hard personal time, I wrote almost compulsively as a sort of therapy, but almost never worked on the novel. I have a really unhealthy avoidant relationship with things that I love or are good for me--I have a feeling that I'm avoiding the novel because it feels too right, or something. I think I'm afraid of being happy or something, lol. I sure did write a lot of fanfiction around that time, though, haha... Now that I'm about to leave my current career of almost 15 years, I keep telling myself I should go back to writing since I'll have relative financial freedom to do so and can finally try to publish my novel... but I'm back to the pipedream of game development, as games are another medium I also love to use to tell stories. Lately I've been having fun writing the script. (If anyone played my stupid RPG Maker game from the 2012, it's the continuation same Oathguard story I've been working on for like 20 years haha). Speaking of embarrassing writing-related hobbies, I also hilariously recently finished a Shadow Hearts fanfic that had basically been on my mind since I played the game in high school. That was weirdly cathartic. No one will read it because it's a dead fandom (RIP Shadow Hearts and Pennyblood ::sadkirby), but I'm really satisfied with it. Now I'd like to finish a Legend of Korra story I started about 10 years ago now that was really fun to write because it was a comedy--I can still read through it and get a laugh (at my own jokes, yes lol). I started to continue it a few years ago, but then stopped. A recent comment made me realize I should finish it for the people who still want to read it, and because it was legitimately fun to write. [/QUOTE]

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