So . . . I've been pretty inactive here on dA for a long time. In total honesty I was pretty inactive with writing in general for way too long. I've tried to kindle that old flame of the Sonic fandom for months . . . years. And it just isn't clicking anymore. I didn't want to let go, I've been writing these characters for a decade. But, slowly the realization that if I wanted to write I needed a new subject became unavoidable. I didn't know what I wanted to write about at first. I have interests, shows that I watch, but the urge to write about them didn't exist. The Walking Dead is great, one of my favorites, but I have zero interest in writing fanfiction for it. The X-Files is coming back, albeit for a short time. The first written words to ever tumble from my brain onto a computer screen were about aliens and government conspiracies and my two beloved F.B.I. agents. It will always hold a special place in my heart, but again, I don't really want to write about it. It seems I tapped that well dry too . . . even if I don't have any work to show for it, time having stolen the hundreds of pages I wrote on the fandom.
In the end, it was when I stopped looking that something sparked my interest. A show I had never before actively sought out to watch. It was my daughter who had requested a set of DVD's for Christmas a couple years back and it was she that sat down to watch it one afternoon on the TV in the living room instead of horded in her bedroom like she usually did. And as I sat and watched, that old flame started to smolder. And then it caught fire. The next thing I knew I was writing. Writing two stories at the same time actually, just like I could back in the golden age of my fanfiction production. And there is no slowing in sight.
One story is fifty pages long, the other coming in just under thirty. I have elected to focus heaviest on one, wanting to finish it completely before posting chapters of it and the second story here and on fanfiction.net. For the first time in a long time I'm interested in writing again and it feels so good. And what is this fandom? Feel free to guess . . . everyone will see soon enough.