Pt. 1 of ?
So the big question: where have I been?
So yea. It's been how long? Since before covid where I pretty much vanished from here...
If you want excuses I could say I was focusing on schoolwork(I'm a hands on learner so going virtual really tanked my grades), I could say I got caught up in various activities that left me with no time to write, I moved, I started focusing more on my career, I started making plans for when I inevitably hit the big number eighteen, there's so many things that I could say to defend myself it's ridiculous.
The truth is, I lost motivation.
I'm a people person. I can't deny it. I crave validation, cancel me on twitter I guess, but I am sorry. It got disheartening to see the books I wrote, poured a lot of time into and worked up the courage to post get ignored for so long, and even when there was views there was only silence? I don't know, it started to become a chore to update, then an obligation to finish what I started until I couldn't bring myself to open any of the documents.
I still write, because of course I do I love writing, but I haven't been able to bring myself to post any of it.
Currently, I'm sitting on 10 unpublished chaptered stories that are all in various stages of writing. In my book of oneshots I'm up to 50 parts, and I'm pretty sure I haven't even posted half of them. I've got notes and drables and half thought out story ideas that I've been sitting on because I feel like I would be the only one to see it if I post it, so why go through the effort?