This is it for me, dear friends. Let me tell you about my experience, my motivation (or not) to keep on writing.
Mainly, I am running six projects now. Two solos: Rulers of the Seven Seas and The Dutch Incumbence. One collaborative: Arabian Nights. One heavily (in quantity) collaborative: The Free Company. And a collaborative MP one, the Late Night Liqour Club. I'll tell about each one.
Rulers of the Seven Seas
This is it. My first AAR and indeed my first atempt to write a story; even in Portuguese I didn't write any story before this one. I feel myself motivated to go until the end. I love doing some historical research, writing (and translating) poetry and I'm experimenting to write a dialog based story, with some narrative as well. But the dialog is the main thing always.
The Dutch Incumbence
This is something like an "informal" history-book tale. I don't need to spend much time playing, taking notes and writing it, because I don't need to take care of many details - who cares if I gain a temporary CB on someone when IMO I already have a CB on the whole world?
My motivation to keep on writing it (although not too often) is mainly because it is fun to write it; nothing to do with the gameplay or my goals.
Arabian Nights
Although lacking an update, I'm motivated to go with this until the end. Alexandru told me that, depending on him and in his opinion, the project is not dead. He's just a bit busy these days, but soon we're back on it. My motivation comes as I think it is a challange to myself. It will have a totally different writing style than the two other SP projects!
The Free Company
Tonight I'll introduce my character. It will be a great pleasure for me to participate, although I still doubt if I can mantain myself contributing. Now I have no problems, but who knows some weeks ahead? For a while I'm motivated to enter, mainly because it's another different style for me: to take care of one and only one character. It will test my writing abilities in a very incisive way, and I like challenges.
The Late Night Liqour Club
The only limitation to this are the issues with Amric; otherwise, it would be running well. It was really fun to write that whole background history together with him, nalivayko and LordLeto. Yes, the writing about our first and only gameplay wasn't good, but I'm up to propose a new format when things work out again. I have an special incentive to keep on it: we have a nice adjustment with each other.
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Five projects, and I intend to finish each one if possible. However, I must admit I have an special taste for my portuguese tale. You might have already noticed that. If I had to choose only one project to keep ongoing, it would be this one. But I don't plan to start more projects until I finish several of the ongoing ones.
Anyway, also another thing I must admit. As I'm just starting my story-writing "carreer", now I want to write as much as possible, to serve as a nice training for myself. And also want to keep on writing on different styles at the same time, serving as another good training for myself. Perhaps if in the future I write a real book I can have my own style...