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99% of my projects—fanworks, and everything else like coding, learning Latin, finishing up a book, practicing a piece to fluency, an osu! beatmap—are long term works in progress! Though maybe because I tend to forget about completed projects.

I work on things only when I feel like it, so if I don't feel like it, the project is just in stasis (for days or years) until I get the next burst of passion. I like my workflow very much because there is never any 'forcing myself to do things', I always get to work on what I like, and also I don't feel any 'shame' at my 'unproductivity' because my wonderful therapist taught me how to weed it out!

@FandomChats uncontrollable sobbing I feel so called out. I'll start off on something, and get the bulk of the work done in half hour to several hour increments over the course of a few days. But when the well of my inspiration drains, I just abandon it, promising that I'll get back to it when I have had time to let it sit.

I usually never get back to them, or only work on them a tiny bit, and if I do, I feel like the old work is this untouchable artifact that must be preserved (I should probably just copy and paste the old version into a new doc so I don't 'desecrate' the old version :P)

Oh, and most of these are one-shots. I have HUNDREDS of abandoned WIPs from several years, and the only things I've ever published are FanPrompt fills. I just need to get more disciplined about writing even when I'm not inspired. Some of my proudest work has actually come from me just sitting down and forcing myself to write. 😅

(Did I massively veer off-topic? Usually I have three-ish in my currently making meaningful progress on queue before I abandon it. I probably could have just answered that ) Two are for the same ship, one is a genfiic.  

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