Snowflake Challenge Day 12

[opensummer]

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. 

Comments

unfinished fic

[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.

Re: unfinished fic

[opensummer]

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

Re: unfinished fic

[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.