When did you decide to quit your story, or why do you keep going?

[Deleted member 166465]

While it's disappointing when an author stops his work halfway, I think I find it more disappointing if his work drops in quality.

I'd rather read half a story and be left with good memories of it than read an entire story with conflicting feelings at the end of it.

I disagree. but we each have a right to our opinion, (allow me a narcisist move here), even if it is wrong.
*Adjust monocle.

 

[kosamsel]

Unfortunately, I’m someone who’s hugely motivated by external feedback, haha. Without any outside pressure to put words to paper, I can (and have!) let my ideas marinate for YEARS. This isn’t exclusive to writing; I’m notorious for needing a deadline to get any work done. Sooo… I post my stuff online and turn that into the millstone hanging around my neck. I REALLY wish I could make myself into one of those people who sits down at a keyboard every day and plunks out pages just for themselves, but sometimes you gotta accept that the person you want to be and the person you are lead parallel lives lol.

ETA: Ah, I didn’t even touch the second half of the post, whoops ? Well, part of being someone who’s a little more extrinsically motivated is that I do definitely struggle to push myself if there’s no response, or if the response starts to taper off. But even without active readers, putting something Out ThereTM still gives me a standard to hold myself to, helps me establish a routine. Does it backfire occasionally? Yup LOL. But it’s better than letting myself languish!

 

[Echo_Flux]

I quit my story (From another platform) because of lack of interest and time passed, 3 years in fact when I first made a story and it has 1000 reads, tells about an Academician in a Fighting World, so that is the general gist of the story I once made, and I have 2 placeholders of stories I tried to make because of stories that gave me ideas, so there is that

 

[mythosandmagic]

I love my story, I believe it to be inspirational, and I think it needs to be read!
That's why I will never give up...
I may quit a couple of sites that seem to be a waste of time, but I won't stop. I can't.

 

[Cookiez_N_Potionz]

I wanted to try something different but didn't know how different a Webnovel would be to a Traditional novel. So, I kinda messed up there. My hook wasn't immediate and my synopsis was a problem. Luckily, I was able to fix the synopsis but the hook doesn't show up until chapter 5 in my story

 

[mythosandmagic]

I wanted to try something different but didn't know how different a Webnovel would be to a Traditional novel. So, I kinda messed up there. My hook wasn't immediate and my synopsis was a problem. Luckily, I was able to fix the synopsis but the hook doesn't show up until chapter 5 in my story

In my original go at my story, my MC didn't show up until chapter 7! No wonder no one understood my story. Now, she is introduced in the second paragraph of the first chapter, and she is able to reference some of the world-building I discarded because of the rewrite.