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Day 12
In your own space, create your own challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

WIP Amnesty! Take a look at a fanwork that you've haven't finished and examine your reasons for not finishing it.

I find there's a lot of works that never get finished with no commentary from the author. I'd love to see a work that's been abandoned or unfinished get a few paragraphs on why that is, or for an author to take a look at their oldest WIP, publish a paragraph from it and write about why they haven't worked on/finished it.

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From:

sodium_amytal

I can do this! I wouldn't mind sharing a snippet on my journal. I've made a personal challenge to myself to finish at least one of my novel-length WIPs this year, and maybe I'll finish more of them, depending on how things go. Thanks for the motivation!

Done, my post is here

Edited Date: 2019-01-12 09:51 pm (UTC)

From:

opensummer

Of course! Thanks for sharing!

From:

mizface

This is a really interesting challenge!I have some I'm always hoping I'll get back to, but every time I look at them I'm still stuck. Analyzing why would be a great exercise.

From:

opensummer

I find if I can understand the reason I abandoned/never finished I can either set it aside permanently or find some inspiration to finish it.

From:

novembermond

well I hope it counts if it's not the oldest but this is meshing well with my own challenge (which I haven't even fulfilled yet oops) I mean I either finally finish this thing or call it quits (haven't updated since 2016) but for now I'm still trying to write it out. xD

Edited Date: 2019-01-12 08:55 pm (UTC)

From:

opensummer

oops. You can do it!

my oldest abandoned work dates back to 2008 and two name changes ago and that's just wrong...

From:

spikedluv

Thankfully I've stopped posting WIPs for this very reason. Now if it doesn't get finished I'm the only one who knows. :(

From:

oldtoadwoman

Yup. One of the reasons I've distanced myself from my old fic posted under a different name is that I don't want people to know I'm the person who wrote that story that ended on a cliffhanger. I may need to resolve a 20-year-old cliffhanger just to clear my conscience.

From:

opensummer

I've got a terrible fic from 2008 that I never finished and I am still ashamed of so I feel that deeply

From:

oldtoadwoman

♥

I finally learned to stop posting works-in-progress. Now I've very neurotic about that. Even if it looks like I'm posting a WIP, I'm just proofreading the later chapters. I don't start posting until the last chapter is done. I wrote myself into so many corners before I learned the importance of that.

The thing is... re-reading this old stuff, it's not nearly as terrible as I remember it. It had this spontaneity. I do miss that joy of sharing an idea the instant it occurs to you even if it didn't have a plot or a point.