So. Recollect. Happy (late) 3 year anniversary!! :) But uh, that isn't what I'm here to talk about. You're probably really tired of me talking about putting it off and rewriting it and stuff and I'd like to be fully transparent about why it has never worked out when I have tried to work on it. 1. I started it at the end of the pandemic During 2020-2021, we were all bored. COVID had us stuck inside, and that is when I had found Scratch. After a year of being on it, I had made Recollect based off of Piggy, as it was my main hyperfixation at the time. Back then, I was younger, had more motivation, and had less work to do. Now that COVID is over, things have changed, which leads me to the next point, 2. I don't have time + school I am above the age of thirteen, and I don't know about those outside of the U.S., but school work becomes more and more of a burden the older you get. I take higher-level classes than where the rest of my grade is, and those classes are VERY demanding. On top of that, my normal classes are pretty demanding too. I have homework pretty much every day, and while sometimes the content isn't hard or much, it can just be very difficult for me to sit down and finish it because, 3. ADHD Recently, I was diagnosed with ADHD, specifically the type that makes me VERY inattentive. It is very hard for me to make time to do something without immediately losing motivation and wanting to do something else that intrigues me more. As I said, this makes it difficult to complete my schoolwork sometimes, pay attention in school and in normal conversations, and, in addition, work on personal projects such as Recollect. Sometimes I sit down and tell myself to write some main plot points, but I immediately lose interest and don't want to work on it. This is also why I haven't posted digital art in a long time, because digital art has the same effect on me. Whenever I would force myself to do it, it would upset me. 4. Perfectionism Every so often, I would feel obligated to rewrite something in Recollect because I didn't like it or it made me upset. With my inattentiveness, this made a horrible combo. Every time I would go to write or change something in Recollect, I would feel uncomfortable and upset because I felt it wasn't good enough. I could never be happy with anything I wrote for Recollect. There are many other reasons to this, I just can't put it all into this description. The Future of Recollect Recollect doesn't bring me as much joy as it did anymore. However, that doesn't mean it's gone forever. I might write a thing explaining the plot and how it was gonna go, however, there were a lot of things missing and incomplete with the story and along with that, I have my finals coming up and I can't afford to do bad on those that it might take a long time to release. I love Recollect, I just don't have the room to work on it in my life anymore. Also, I totally forgot about the Recollect anniversary thing because of things that have come up in my life, so sorry I don't have anything lol. Song is Pork and Beans by Weezer bc I like it and I didn't have anything else saved I wanted to use lol
