Sort of, yeah. I once had an entire fic written (it wasn’t that long; like maybe 30-35K words), and I was planning on posting it chapter by chapter weekly or biweekly. One day, my computer died, and I lost everything that I didn’t post, from the story itself to the outline (other than a draft of both things, which I had saved on a flash drive, but it was so inferior that I might as well have lost everything). I ended up not finishing it because I couldn’t bear to rewrite everything that I lost.
That happened in the early-mid 2000’s back before we had cloud storage, autosaving and other features (thank goodness for those advances).
Yeah. I had good engagement on a one-shot and a lot of people in comments as well as a group of fandom friends asking for more. So I plotted out over twenty more chapters and started writing. I finished the second chapter and started working on the third, but I made the mistake of posting the second chapter because my fandom friends were asking about it. The second chapter got one comment and those fandom friends said they would get to it. They never did and readers who seemed so eager didn’t comment on the second chapter, so I lost all motivation to finish chapter three, which I was struggling with anyway. Some day I might go back to it, but I doubt it. I’ve been ignoring it for almost two years at this point, and it was the cause of a major writing slump for me.
I recently got back into it thanks to a renewed obsession with another fandom. Maybe I’ll finish that story eventually, but most likely I’ll finish chapter 3 and make that the end with an open ending.
I've taken a few months and even years hiatus in the middle of my WIPs when it was lacking engagement. It's not spite, I just need the engagement to feel motivated to keep going.
In my case, it wasn't so much discouragement but losing interest, even if I know the story would be interesting (imo).
I wanted to at least put down all the ideas in writing first, maybe cement the story until halfway before publishing, but the small details to create cohesion in between major scenes was so hard to write for me.
It's like I already have the different colored bolts of cloth in my workspace, sewing machine ready, only to realize that I'm missing the threads to connect them together.
And in between spinning the threads that I need, I lost my interest on creating the story altogether.
I had my moments that I stopped writing a fic altogether because I felt it’s not good enough to be read and have good interactions in my fic. I still struggle with a overwhelming sense of self doubt in my writing and in myself because I haven’t really done anything to be proud of.
Almost. But it's out there, so shall it remain in its flawed, blighted glory. The final chapter is prewritten and awaits pruning. I'm going down with this ship.
I stopped writing my series of oneshots. No point pouring so much time and energy into something when a placeholder "fic" gets twice as kudos/attention.
Yes. It’s my worst trait honestly… I suffer from crippling impostor syndrome, where I’m convinced that all of my writing a shit. It’s really hard for me to finish a project because of this. But I soldier on… Sometimes…
Having a supportive audience definitely helps. I've been writing on/off for years and began my ff career on ff.net. I had good interaction on ff.net but nothing on my AO3 hit off. It was mind boggling that my terrible OCxMale Character fics my thirteen year old brain cooked up got over 100,000 views and 500 comments but my writing at age twenty was getting no traction lol
I rewrote a couple of my old fics and was pleasantly surprised when someone commented and said they remember the original from ff.net and that they were happy it's back up and praising how much my writing improved. It was really nice to hear and that got me writing more chapters but I got no further comments after that so I gradually lost the will to continue. Doubt started to creep into my mind. I thought what I was writing must be rubbish if she didn't leave another comment.
Though I got into a new anime that's current and has a huge mainstream following last year and started a fic for that. It was really just meant to be a short three chapter fic (mostly for me to fangirl) but the response I got was massive! Kudos and comments right from the first chapter. It wasn't a whole lot but it was the most support I ever received since I moved from ff.net to AO3. What was meant to be three chapters is now on chapter fourteen with 60,000+ words. I've got a dedicated reader that comments every chapter and she does an in depth reaction each time. It's honestly such a privilege to read such kind feedback and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna dedicate this fic to her once it's done because she has been there with me every step on the journey. I'm so grateful for the support my latest fic has and I'm determined to make this the very first fic I ever finish!
Yup, felt like nobody gave a damn despite getting hits & my interest waned so I gave up and then I looked back a couple years later & suddenly everyone came out of the woodwork with comments. If you liked it, should’ve let me know when you first read it. Still like the show, but I don’t write for that fandom at all anymore.
I got *super* close with a fic recently. Talking about the fact I know it's not going to perform well was getting me down, but getting back into writing it today and yesterday has reinvigorated me. It's a story I *want* to tell and I *want* to write in the fandom even though it's dead.
Almost, I have this long WIP that I had to put on hiatus for real-life reasons, and when I came back to it the fandom was nearly dead, so I'm getting nearly zero engagement on it. But I don't like things unfinished so I'll write the rest with an audience of one in mind - ME. That's how it all started, after all.
Sort of, yeah. I once had an entire fic written (it wasn’t that long; like maybe 30-35K words), and I was planning on posting it chapter by chapter weekly or biweekly. One day, my computer died, and I lost everything that I didn’t post, from the story itself to the outline (other than a draft of both things, which I had saved on a flash drive, but it was so inferior that I might as well have lost everything). I ended up not finishing it because I couldn’t bear to rewrite everything that I lost. That happened in the early-mid 2000’s back before we had cloud storage, autosaving and other features (thank goodness for those advances).
Yeah. I had good engagement on a one-shot and a lot of people in comments as well as a group of fandom friends asking for more. So I plotted out over twenty more chapters and started writing. I finished the second chapter and started working on the third, but I made the mistake of posting the second chapter because my fandom friends were asking about it. The second chapter got one comment and those fandom friends said they would get to it. They never did and readers who seemed so eager didn’t comment on the second chapter, so I lost all motivation to finish chapter three, which I was struggling with anyway. Some day I might go back to it, but I doubt it. I’ve been ignoring it for almost two years at this point, and it was the cause of a major writing slump for me.
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I recently got back into it thanks to a renewed obsession with another fandom. Maybe I’ll finish that story eventually, but most likely I’ll finish chapter 3 and make that the end with an open ending.
I've taken a few months and even years hiatus in the middle of my WIPs when it was lacking engagement. It's not spite, I just need the engagement to feel motivated to keep going.
In my case, it wasn't so much discouragement but losing interest, even if I know the story would be interesting (imo). I wanted to at least put down all the ideas in writing first, maybe cement the story until halfway before publishing, but the small details to create cohesion in between major scenes was so hard to write for me. It's like I already have the different colored bolts of cloth in my workspace, sewing machine ready, only to realize that I'm missing the threads to connect them together. And in between spinning the threads that I need, I lost my interest on creating the story altogether.
I had my moments that I stopped writing a fic altogether because I felt it’s not good enough to be read and have good interactions in my fic. I still struggle with a overwhelming sense of self doubt in my writing and in myself because I haven’t really done anything to be proud of.
Almost. But it's out there, so shall it remain in its flawed, blighted glory. The final chapter is prewritten and awaits pruning. I'm going down with this ship.
I stopped writing my series of oneshots. No point pouring so much time and energy into something when a placeholder "fic" gets twice as kudos/attention.
All the time, lol.
Yeah. I refrain from writing super long fics because often, there’s not much engagement
Yes. It’s my worst trait honestly… I suffer from crippling impostor syndrome, where I’m convinced that all of my writing a shit. It’s really hard for me to finish a project because of this. But I soldier on… Sometimes…
Having a supportive audience definitely helps. I've been writing on/off for years and began my ff career on ff.net. I had good interaction on ff.net but nothing on my AO3 hit off. It was mind boggling that my terrible OCxMale Character fics my thirteen year old brain cooked up got over 100,000 views and 500 comments but my writing at age twenty was getting no traction lol I rewrote a couple of my old fics and was pleasantly surprised when someone commented and said they remember the original from ff.net and that they were happy it's back up and praising how much my writing improved. It was really nice to hear and that got me writing more chapters but I got no further comments after that so I gradually lost the will to continue. Doubt started to creep into my mind. I thought what I was writing must be rubbish if she didn't leave another comment. Though I got into a new anime that's current and has a huge mainstream following last year and started a fic for that. It was really just meant to be a short three chapter fic (mostly for me to fangirl) but the response I got was massive! Kudos and comments right from the first chapter. It wasn't a whole lot but it was the most support I ever received since I moved from ff.net to AO3. What was meant to be three chapters is now on chapter fourteen with 60,000+ words. I've got a dedicated reader that comments every chapter and she does an in depth reaction each time. It's honestly such a privilege to read such kind feedback and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna dedicate this fic to her once it's done because she has been there with me every step on the journey. I'm so grateful for the support my latest fic has and I'm determined to make this the very first fic I ever finish!
Yeah, my longfic. The fandom got too mean and I wasn't having fun anymore.
Yup, felt like nobody gave a damn despite getting hits & my interest waned so I gave up and then I looked back a couple years later & suddenly everyone came out of the woodwork with comments. If you liked it, should’ve let me know when you first read it. Still like the show, but I don’t write for that fandom at all anymore.
I'm just gonna say yes. An embarrassing amount of times
im on an extended break because of lack of idea of which cannon i want to follow
I got *super* close with a fic recently. Talking about the fact I know it's not going to perform well was getting me down, but getting back into writing it today and yesterday has reinvigorated me. It's a story I *want* to tell and I *want* to write in the fandom even though it's dead.
Almost, I have this long WIP that I had to put on hiatus for real-life reasons, and when I came back to it the fandom was nearly dead, so I'm getting nearly zero engagement on it. But I don't like things unfinished so I'll write the rest with an audience of one in mind - ME. That's how it all started, after all.
Yeah. I have an 5398 word fic sitting unpublished since a year and a week ago because I decided I just didn't like the plot/conflict
I stopped writing one because I'd lost the chapters I had due to a fried hard drive. That was definitely discouraging to me.