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@ariella-newheart Thank you for the advice and the sweet music!

@steward-of-the-pen What you’re saying makes sense. I’m glad you were able to work through a lot of the mud in your head. I think I have a problem of nothing really being on my heart to begin with (outside of one thing intended for SE submission which I’m not even sure is a good fit for the site, but we’ll see)

@evelyn I dunno, I’ve never really had a passion for any project. I got into writing at a young age because it was intuitive to me compared to how abysmally I failed at every other aspect of school, but I never really loved it. Even now, writing is meaningful to me mostly because of the amount of time I’ve spent doing it, and because I feel it’s mentally engaging and work-from-homey enough I could maybe stand to do it as a day job, which I can’t say about anything else.

I’m not excited about any of my writing projects, and never have been for about eight years. Even then, I was only excited about what I was writing because other people were excited about it, and relying on external praise and interest for motivation is purely unhealthy. When I start a project now, it’s because I think I have an idea I can see finishing, and that’s about it. And again, I’m really only doing this because it’s the only “out” of the life I hate that I can imagine.

It’s definitely not a fun process, but if it could make life more bearable I think it’s worth pursuing.

Thank you so much for the suggestion of thinking out loud. I can confirm that rubber duck debugging has saved my butt on many occasions, and I’m kicking myself for not having thought of it sooner for writing.

@silverclaw-bonnetfolly Thanks for the encouragement! Unfortunately, I’d hoped to be several hours along by now, but I’ve spent a grand total of zero minutes on any of this thus far. I have (I think) fulfilled all my social obligations for the week until Sunday, and have sent the last of my insurance paperwork this afternoon, and now am exhausted in every sense of the word, but I hope to luxuriously spend tomorrow evening grinding out the first item on my list.

I appreciate the support, my fine guildies.