Why It's Okay to Take a Break from Your Writing

When I was fourteen, I began thinking up ideas for a fantasy story. I started creating and developing characters, thinking of scenes, and imagining plot twists. Soon enough I started daydreaming about all of it as a movie, and that’s when I realized that I didn’t want to write a simple fantasy short story, I wanted to write a novel. So I got to work and started writing chapter one. I thought everything was awesome—my characters were great, my setting was great, my plot was great—everything was g...