Ladies and gentlemen, the legendary Genesis.
Apologies if I've used the above video for another post, but I felt that it was the song that fits this post best. For the last few days, I've felt kind of… I think uncertain about some of my writing. Specifically about some things that I've been writing very recently, but I'll get to that more in just a moment. First I'd like to talk about something that had happened to me this morning that also has to do with writing. This past spring I had written an article for the newsletter of the archive I work at concerning a project that I've been working on regularly there. It was finally published this last fall and has gotten some really positive response from my family, coworkers and people I've never met before. My plan since writing that article has been to write another one that's kind of a followup, and this morning I had gone before the archive director and the person in charge of the newsletter for an idea for that article. Well, when I told them this idea, they all of a sudden came out and told me that they'd prefer not to do any sort of followup article at all.
Instead they did suggest to me that I could do an article concerning a person related to the project I've been working on there. And I didn't say no to this idea, though at the time I felt like doing such an article would've just been sucking up to this person who's been donating material and I assume some money to the archive. But then again I guess that's just one of the unpleasant things that needs to be done sometimes for a place like an archive, plus the article isn't mandatory. I should also add that it did give me the idea to do similar articles about interesting people and organizations relating to this project I've been working on. Even so, the fact that my idea for a followup article was shot down before I could even get it off the ground just rubbed me the wrong way. It was sort of like being hit in the stomach by a foam ball from a Nerf gun. Not extremely painful, but somewhat unpleasant.
So that incident kind of added to the uncertainty that I've been feeling as of late about my other writing. Particularly about the fanfic I'm currently working on. Recently it seems like it isn't getting the attention it had when I started it, and I guess that's partially because one of the major reviewers for it hasn't been feeling well lately and thus probably hasn't been up to reading stuff on the computer. Still, I've been debating with myself about whether or not to take a break from that particular story and work on this new idea I've come up with. Of course I'm afraid that if I do that it'll be harder to finish the story I've been working on. Lately I haven't been able to continue work on a lot of my major fan fiction projects, and I don't know if that's because I'm still coping with the loss of my cat or if it's something else. Right now my plan is to just do at least one more chapter of my current fanfic later this week and maybe take all of next week off from it. After all, next week is the week of Thanksgiving, so chances are I won't have a lot of time to write. Maybe that'll give me some time to figure out what to do, because right now I'm not sure what path I should take.
I think that's pretty much it for now. Oh, and for those who may care, I deleted my post from last week because when I looked at it later it seemed a little disjointed to me, if that makes any sense. That's what I get for trying to write a post while watching the crossover between The Simpsons and Futurama.
