As a writer that has several unfinished WIPs as well, I have to take umbrage here. There are a lot of stories that pop into a writer's head and *must* be written, right then, no pausing, no time for working it out ahead of time, they just must be put down before they are gone. The crux of this is that sometimes that story has to pre-empt another as it were, and when one returns to the first story it feels dated, or the direction has been lost. Sometimes it's possible to resume working on that story, and sometimes it isn't.
I personally have a WIP that I haven't worked on in more than a year, and another that's been a good 5 or 6 months, it doesn't mean I've abandoned them forever, the desire to go back is still there, yet everytime I open those files and try to move the stories forward nothing comes. Even though I have *tried* a dozen times over not one word has been added in months and months. It may be time to call them dead, I just don't have ladycat777's courage to do that, instead I torture my readers with this hope that someday I may return to them, and I can't imagine how that is the lesser of two evils.
On a side note, very few readers have been invited into their favorite writer's lives, LJ may be a public forum and the fiction posted on the internet may indeed become a sort of public domain, but no one has the right to presume they know what is going on in a writer's life outside of fandom enough to judge how they should be spending their writing energies and free time. While the disappointment of being unable to see a fic play out is valid, the invalid assumption that a writer has nothing better to do than satisfy their readers at the expense of their own free will is inexcusible.
I truly hope you will make a public apology and in future think before you pass judgment on someone you only know as part of the reader-writer relationship, and not as a true friend with full knowledge of their situation and writerly motivations.
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I personally have a WIP that I haven't worked on in more than a year, and another that's been a good 5 or 6 months, it doesn't mean I've abandoned them forever, the desire to go back is still there, yet everytime I open those files and try to move the stories forward nothing comes. Even though I have *tried* a dozen times over not one word has been added in months and months. It may be time to call them dead, I just don't have
On a side note, very few readers have been invited into their favorite writer's lives, LJ may be a public forum and the fiction posted on the internet may indeed become a sort of public domain, but no one has the right to presume they know what is going on in a writer's life outside of fandom enough to judge how they should be spending their writing energies and free time. While the disappointment of being unable to see a fic play out is valid, the invalid assumption that a writer has nothing better to do than satisfy their readers at the expense of their own free will is inexcusible.
I truly hope you will make a public apology and in future think before you pass judgment on someone you only know as part of the reader-writer relationship, and not as a true friend with full knowledge of their situation and writerly motivations.