Dug up a bunch of old stories I shelved for a friend. These are things I wrote
years ago. I found one of the first stories I wrote and I dumped it because it was bad. Turns out it wasn't bad at all, just the topic matter was very grim.
I sent over 6 stories and as I re-read many of them I felt a vigor and spark take over. Even one my delightful ex read and was saying was absolute cringe is turning out to just be another example of her putting me down.
My friend read that story and told me things about it and my writing that inspire hope.
You see I write a lot.
I have a tendency to rotate stories when I get bored. It's my way of dealing with writer's block. Can't write that story! GO onto another one and put it on the back burner until you have that spark occur where YOU MUST GO BACK TO THE OTHER ONE!
That's the good thin about having most of my stories be inside a single lore. I can have characters in one story reference events in another story and as they're rambling on I suddenly feel the urge to jump across the street and follow the characters in the first story.
My characters must be really tired of a crazed maniac chasing them through the streets with a typewriter clanking away. Don't speed up! THIS ISN'T A CHASE SCENE!
It's just finishing a story I have difficulties with, but however I can just need a bit of that push. Or a place to come rest my feet spew out utter nonsense in a thread like this and go back to writing.
Hi, I'm R.T James and I'm a writeaholic.
Edit: For example I just put 4k words into the one story my Ex thought was cringe. 1k words into the story that was one of my firsts, and 466 in my post apoc story.