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Carolita Johnson's avatar

I think it’s part of being a writer/artist to have many things started and unfinished, actually! I’ve sold cartoons after ten years of forgetting them, then thinking them over. Some tweaked, some not. I hear of many writers that have abandoned works in old computers, etc. I think you’re just perfectly in character! Don’t sweat it, I think!

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Kirie's avatar

In my 20s, I taught writing workshops for gifted and talented elementary mostly inner-city kids in Tacoma and Oak Harbor, Washington. While doing research on what giftedness means, which those programs defined as IQ scores, I learned that highly creative and gifted kids tend to have many many many interests, each of which they can become profoundly absorbed in. I encouraged them to pursue all their joys. It seems our society defines success as the pursuit of a single linear goal. What you do is a gift to the world.

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