U said once that you write less cuz u had a friend break up. Y?
Interesting question. I'm going to assume you're ask why I write less without the friend, and not why me and my friend "broke up." I'm also not going to answer the latter, because it's kind of personal. So why do I write less now? 1) That friend was a fellow writer, and a very active one at that. When you have someone writing and talking about writing... you get inspired to write your own stuff. There's also that this friend liked to write *together*, as in both of us writing different things at the same time. So I was pushed to write naturally. 2) I could talk to this friend about my writing. See, of my close friends, only one knew Total Drama well enough to *appreciate* my writing decisions. Appreciate or critique, either way. I could talk about my writing as I was doing it. Tell them exactly my problems, and/or my clever solutions. I can't do that anymore. I have a lot of other friends who know Total Drama, but these tend to be fans of my fic. And that's nice, but I can't talk to them about my fic as I write it. That's like... spoiling the suprise. They're the audience, the consumer. Whereas my old friend was well... a fellow writer. There's a difference. 3) This doesn't specifically pertain to the friend, but my whole fic writing process changed after chapter eight. I used to write chapters one after another, every day for weeks. By the time I let the public read chapter 6, I had finished chapter 12. But after chapter eight, I started rewriting each chapter as I went. Chapter 9 [break up chapter] went through several changes. Chapter 10 [court chapter] was basically new. Chapter 11 [makeup chapter] needed to be better and more impactful because of how angsty Chapter 10 was. Chapter 12 and 13 were supposed to be one chapter, but had to be expanded. Chapter 14 [Therapy] was changed because of Chapter 10. Chapter 15 is honestly entirely new I think. Chapter 16 was definitely new. So now I'm writing each chapter new and with less encouragement. It doesn't quite explain why the recent chapters have taken three weeks at a time, but uhh. Yeah. I think I said it before, but my biggest problem is a lack of consistence. I used to be consistent, but now I'm not and will take week long breaks without writing, then spend a few short days on a 4k words per day spree. Maybe one day I'll regain consistency. 🙏