Ha! Yes, Hearts of Ice is the one! And she still says that she's going to finish it, although I actually don't reallly care at this point, I'm just sort of vaguely curious if she ever will!
I understand, though. And getting out of a fandom is what kills it for me. I don't know if you remember the one long DBZ story that I didn't finish -- I felt *horrible* about that, but it just got to the point where I really couldn't write those characters anymore, and I still had so much of the story to go that I just couldn't take the idea of writing that much more of it. That was why I ended up making my rule about never posting a WIP until I had the ending written -- at least that way if I lost interest, I could always half-ass something in the middle and then post the end! Of course I'm totally breaking rule that with my current WIP...
There are some fandoms that I fall in and out of over time, and I think I could probably always finish a story with them. I've been working off and on, on this one Saiyuki story I started posting awhile back in my LJ, and I *do* plan to finish -- what really stalled me out is that Reload appears to be covering ground that I was going to handle very differently in my fic, so now I'm stuck. But I still enjoy the Saiyuki boys even though I'm no longer rabidly fannish about them. Other fandoms aren't that way -- the shine has totally worn off DBZ, and even though I have fond memories of it, I doubt if I'll feel that way about it again. So my unfinished DBZ stories are pretty much dead.
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I understand, though. And getting out of a fandom is what kills it for me. I don't know if you remember the one long DBZ story that I didn't finish -- I felt *horrible* about that, but it just got to the point where I really couldn't write those characters anymore, and I still had so much of the story to go that I just couldn't take the idea of writing that much more of it. That was why I ended up making my rule about never posting a WIP until I had the ending written -- at least that way if I lost interest, I could always half-ass something in the middle and then post the end! Of course I'm totally breaking rule that with my current WIP...
There are some fandoms that I fall in and out of over time, and I think I could probably always finish a story with them. I've been working off and on, on this one Saiyuki story I started posting awhile back in my LJ, and I *do* plan to finish -- what really stalled me out is that Reload appears to be covering ground that I was going to handle very differently in my fic, so now I'm stuck. But I still enjoy the Saiyuki boys even though I'm no longer rabidly fannish about them. Other fandoms aren't that way -- the shine has totally worn off DBZ, and even though I have fond memories of it, I doubt if I'll feel that way about it again. So my unfinished DBZ stories are pretty much dead.