What to do when you've outgrown your own story

@DokiDokiTsuna Doki Doki Tsuna
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 22:00:05 +0000

@DokiDokiTsuna wrote:

If you really can't bear to work on it anymore, yet you'd feel too regretful to leave it, I'd suggest transforming it.
I had an issue like that with a webcomic series I started when I was 13. Needless to say, I've matured a lot since that time, and it got to the point where looking through my old work was starting to become a cringefest. ^^; After a few years trying and failing to "improve" the bad ideas, one day I just up and said, "okay, this is canceled. I'm taking these characters and starting a new thing with them, something that's more in line with my current skill level".

It's been hard, sure. Finding motivation, trying to build trust with a new audience...but I think it's better than discarding the entire project, even though I have plenty of other things to work on.