"It'll mean too much to you."
Maggie Stiefvater said that somewhere on tumblr, where the problem with writing a story long term is it starts to represent too many parts of your life, too many challenges. How if you drag working on a story through too many life changes, your mindset is just too different to write it.
I didn't think it was true, then I noticed I have a pattern of throwing out all writing I did when I was in a toxic situation. The problems I experience in those situations bleed into my writing, rendering all relationships tainted by abuse.
And when I tried to go back to my novel Cat Steps— which I've worked on through three if not four major life changes— I found I couldn't really relate to it, anymore, and the thought of rebooting again feels painful. It's a story ridiculously close to my heart.
I can't tell if the advice is true, or if I'm just running into perfectionism where this draft is so new and different I don't know if it's better than the original draft, or if it's worse.
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