(02-06-2015, 01:17 PM)Gegenji Wrote: Oh oh, we can talk about the stuff we hate about ourselves, too? I could go on for days about the little nuances about myself I hate.
Seriously, though, I feel you on the writing thing. It's not so much writer's block for me as it is... petering out of motivation. A large part of it comes from hoping, begging for someone to look at it and let me know something - good or bad. If it's good, I'm perked up and energized to continue. If it's bad, then I can go "Oh, that needs to be fixed" and try to correct what I did wrong.
But if there's... nothing? That's when the petering out occurs. I start thinking that my work is so... blase that it isn't even worthy of attention. Then I start wondering if it's even worth it if no one is going to read it, and it all just snowballs from there. Which is why with my little Gogon story, I keep glancing at the number of views to see if it changed - seeing it tick up by even one or two helps negate that feeling just a little bit.
I've had several other writing projects that I started on that I just... gave up on because all desire and motivation for it evaporated from my own chronic worry that no one cared. It's kinda selfish, really.
The evils of the view counter. You could do what I tend to do: completely unsolicited PMs asking people what they think about it. Works especially if you catch anyone in the thread. I've shamelessly peppered folks with rants and ramblings on my work before, and just sent someone a lengthy PM spoiling my whole plot and asking for help.
I like the plot with Gogonji. To be totally honest, I wondered if you were going down an eldritch horror route and were going to have him intellectually frankensteined by the time it ended; I loved the bits about him losing himself in the memories and wondered if we'd see much more of that. An old-fashioned case of being brainjacked and forgetting his research would have been classic horror stuff. Regardless, I'm all on board the current angle. I've often said the difference between revenge and justice is how popular your actions are, and I love seeing that boundary pushed.
You keep writing it, I'll keep reading it!
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