What to do when you've outgrown your own story

@CallMeMattheww Mattheww
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:18:38 +0000

@CallMeMattheww wrote:

So I've been developing the same webcomic for over 4+ years now (only started uploading it this year), I first started working on it when I was about 20 and now I've just turned 24 (oh god i'm getting old ) and I've been noticing that almost everything about the series bores / irritates me or at the very least doesn't get me as excited as it once did.

I'm actually worried that I might have spent too much time on this project and so I feel like it just got really stale and expired (I don't know how else to phrase it LOL) I want to cancel it and move on but that feels like I'd be wasting so much time and effort that I have already invested into this project.....

So I guess what I'd like to know is

1) What do you do with it once you realize that you've outgrown your own story? (do you try to salvage key ideas for later stories or maybe you re-tweak your story to work with your present day interests / sensibilities)

2) Do you have a webcomic, book, OC, design, video game concept etc... that you've worked on for so long (or even too long) that you sadly outgrown ?