As of the time that I write this, I have come to a somewhat sad conclusion.
If I am going to write a serious, multi-chapter story where everything ties together; I need to write a script beforehand.
Stories like Hogwarts Rejection Letters don't go into this category because the letters don't tie into each other but for the rest, I definitely need a script or else it is going to end up like it is now with several stories not having been updated for almost a year since it takes so long for me to write a single chapter.
I am going to warn you that several of my stories (like First Steps and Throne of Limestone) are going to go to the backburner until I can write together a script for them, trust me, it may take a while for them to keep going again but they will look a lot better when I actually know where I am going.
Until then, I have an almost finished base-draft of the first "season" of a new story that I am working on. It is coming together rather nicely and I can start to write the actual chapters once I have written a similar script for the rest of the "seasons" and a more detailed script for each chapter of the first one. It truly is like writing an actual book, with several rewrites and a lot of frustration when you realize that some things don't match up with the rest of the story or that some events should be in a different order.
As I have mentioned in my bio, my passion for some things comes in large spikes and valleys where I am really passionate about it and write tons of stories about it (by looking at some of the short story-snippets that I have written in the past I can pinpoint exactly what I liked at the time of writing it) and then my interest drops sharply and I become passionate about something else. I can't control these moods of mine and they are a big part of what makes writing these stories consistently really difficult. But if I have a script ready (or several for that matter) I don't forget all of my ideas that I had and can simply pick up right where I left off when I get in the mood write again.
Sorry for doing this but it is the only way for me to try and fix this mess that I have created by not paying attention to what I was doing.
