Is it possible to be working on too many stories?
I have
I Am Early, which is slowly but surely being posted on Wattpad. It's no masterpiece, but it lets me put something out into the world, and that's not nothing.
I have
Eternal, which is my NaNoWriMo story, as I've come to know it. I've been working on it for every NaNoWriMo (including camps) since I've moved to where we live now, soooo... Almost two years. I have five drafts. It needs to get written, and finished already!
I have what's called "
Rune's Story" (not the actual name, it's never had one), which I've worked on for the past ten years. TEN. I've stolen so many elements of it for
Eternal now though, so I have no clue what it'll look like whenever I go back to it.
AND NOW, I've dug around to find some of my older stories elsewhere, to check if any of my old stuff on there is worth anything. Naturally, a Sailor Moon fan fic, was the best I had. It showed my age (I was a teenager, lol) but it could be re-done in such a way that it doesn't look obvious. What's a gal to do? Especially since
Eternal is a distorted version of Sailor Moon to begin with.
Will I block myself into a corner, doomed to forever write magical girl stuff? (Not that I mind...) Will people be disappointed by
Rune's Story (which is actually kind of amazing) when it's NOT the same genre? There's still magic, but not remotely in the same way.
The things I worry about.
And of course, my short stories, that I'm slowly but surely getting out into the world... Maybe I should just embrace being a magic writer. Hmmm...
I've done almost every NaNoWriMo and Camp NaNoWriMo for as long as my memory will serve me (which isn't very well anymore, but whatever) but this year I was thinking of not bothering. I mean, I'm working on four different projects, how would I even track that according to their standards?