Fragments Gallery
A Note: Hiatus
There comes a time when, even when doing something that you love, you just find that you cannot carry on. Whether it is for reasons of time, ability, or desire you just find it is... difficult to continue.
For me I still wished to keep going, I fought to continue on, but in the end my efforts just felt... flat, dispirited and uninspired. That is part of why I stopped. But it was only part of it.
When writing changed for me, when what began as my record of the thoughts and story ideas that had grown within me became a weekly struggle to develop an idea and drudge to write, I knew the time had come for me to stop for a while. The time had come for me to take a break and recharge.
Yet I continued on.
For close to a year I struggled to continue writing these fragments. I fought with my schedule, with the pressures from the world around me, and in general with my feelings of dissatisfaction of what my fragments, and my writing in general, had become. What had once been so easy and effortless became a fight of endurance. My own special case of writers block worsened and slowly, ever so slowly, I began to miss my goal of four fragments a month. My desire to write lessened as writing became more a chore than a way to express myself. I found myself writing partial fragments that would never see the light of day; there were times when I could no longer write a sentence without feeling as though I’d penned those exact same words before.
Life continued on and eventually I made the choice to stop for a while.
And so I did.
Back at the end of June I decided to stop for a bit. There have been a few times since that I have picked up my virtual pen; a few times that I have considered starting again but those attempts never made it far.
I’ll pick it up again eventually but for now... for now I still need a break.