Hey, so I'm back again.
For people that only know me from art/writing and aren't on my regular social medias (most of you), the last few weeks have been hectic. I've had dental surgery, got a sudden unexpected extra university exam sprung on me that needed a couple weeks intense study for, then got kicked out of my home and had to run around finding another, moving all my stuff in and buying new furniture, and then had computer and internet issues to fix. So yea, it's been a mess. I'm back online and stuff as of earlier today, but also kinda worn out, so as much as I really want to start catching up on overdue stories and half finished drawings right away, I might need a short rest first.

Anyway, point is, I took on a huge long list of writing commissions last year and with one thing and another never quite finished them all, there's still an odd last few in various stages of progress that need finishing off, and I'm realising that I'm just not good at them. Specifically, I can't write other people's stories for them. People come to me with ideas set in worlds of a TV show I've not seen or book series I've never read and I just don't understand the setting well enough, who everyone is, what they want, how things work. People have characters they want written about but I struggle to get their personality down right. People come to me with interests that loosely connect to what I do, but not quite, and I don't have the right experience or the right words to describe the situations. People come to me wanting 16,000 words written but only have a very simple plot to stretch out over them all.
That, and I'm earning about $4 an hour even if I don't count the time I spend staring at the screen in confusion.

Some of the ideas people come to me with result in some lovely stories that I enjoy working on and many people enjoy reading, others are just a constant struggle. I'm not sure what to do.