I’ve been doing some soul-searching lately and I feel like it might be time for me to take another “fanfic time out” to concentrate more on my original fiction. This isn’t the first time I’ve come to this conclusion. I think I was 16 the first time. I poked at fanfic occasionally for a couple more years after that, and then dropped it completely 2009 I think? Then 2016 rolled round and I got back into fanfic in a BIG way. Now it might look like I took a break just a year later until 2020 but no I just wasn’t writing anything much at all.

Sanctuary brought me back into writing. The obsession reignited my passion. Without Sanctuary I wouldn’t be where I am. It gave me back my dream and that dream is to write my own original fiction. Increasingly I’ve become very aware of time invested in various stories. Like the crossover Sanctuary/Warehouse 13 fanfic is over 80k – that’s novel length. Now I don’t regret writing it for one second. I enjoyed writing it and it was what I needed to work on at the time. With all the selling the house/not selling the house/mums health scare etc. I was too panicked to write original fic. The crossover kept me sane, but basically now the crisis is over I’m thinking about the future.

Giving up fanfic is a decision I’ve been resisting for a while. I owe fanfic so much, and I DO enjoy it. But there’s only so many hours in the day you know? And it’s about what will make me happy long-term. Anyway, to make it easier on myself, I’m giving myself the rest of the year to write fanfic to my hearts content.

SO! My mission, should I choose to accept it bwahaha is to write EVERY SINGLE fanfic idea on my list (that I still want to write when I get to it) before the end of the year. Deadline December 31st. After that the slate is wiped clean. 

Now this might not work out. I might get to December 31st and not be able to quit. We’ll have to see what happens. It’s going to be tough. You know what I’ve been like with Sanctuary and the dang novel length fics. Looking at the list *whistles* I’m going to be BUSY! Still I also hope that will stand me in good stead in terms of creating a rock solid writing habit of a good number of words per day. Anyway yeah that’s the plan.

Come next year I could be very red in the face, embarrassed after writing this post, because hey more fic. Who knows! Mostly I’m just worried that there’s still a lot of the year left, the list is already long, and those dang plot bunnies have a habit of spawning…