Meg is the creator of Novelty Revisions, dedicated to helping writers put their ideas into words. She is a staff writer with The Cheat Sheet, a freelance editor and writer, and a 10-time NaNoWriMo winner. Follow Meg on Twitter for tweets about writing, food and nerdy things.
*eyes my graveyard of unfinished WIPs and laughs nervously* I start SO MANY stories and end up shelving them “for later”. There have been a few projects I’ve just had to straight up quit though because I changed as a person and those weren’t the kinds of stories I wanted to tell anymore. Thankfully, it doesn’t happen that often but it does happen and you’re right that writers don’t talk about it as much.
It’s happened to me, too. I started writing something to help me get through a thing and got through the thing before I finished the project. It just didn’t make sense to keep returning to it. But I think when you know, you know. You feel a little guilty, but then you move on. Hopefully.
[…] Sometimes we “grow out” of our hobbies, passions, and dreams. And that’s OK. Ideas for creative projects often sound a lot better in our heads than they actually are, and we don’t realize it until we start working on them. Putting a project to rest does not make you a failure. It makes you an honest writer who is able to shift their focus to things that are most important, even if it means leaving some things behind. […]
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