[Writing] Killed in the Name Of

I officially mentally 'killed' a project that I'd been trying to work with since high school. I've talked to a few people who read this journal about it briefly, and it's something I was invested in, but I really can't get passionate about it. It was a writing project of indeterminate length set in a world I was never really able to pin down. The more I thought about it, the fuzzier it became. I realized that it was, at heart, several projects and none of them were going anywhere.

It doesn't really matter what it was, but for those curious, it was the sci-fi thing that I had been trying to puzzle out forever, now. It comes down to 'I don't want to write it, and I have no incentive to do so.', so I'm just kind of taking notes and trying to determine if there's anything I do want to write in particular.

I feel surprisingly good about this decision, to stop trying, but I feel oddly about the characters I'm leaving in perpetual limbo. Most of them were never very fleshed out, and so it's a relief to let them go, too. One in particular is an interesting exception. Atol is a character that's really taken a life of his own. When I sat down to create my first Cam LARP character, I tried to pull a name from somewhere that wasn't going to be a trite, overused Shadow name for Mage. I hadn't really put too much thought into it, so I determined I'd cross over some of my character ideas from one of my less likeable characters from my long time novel attempt. I always enjoyed writing Atol dialog, even if I couldn't get anything else going. Thanatos02 is my common screenname and avatar, but Atol is my secondary. 

Kind of a strange set of circumstances. His project killed, the character continues to live on seperetly. He may still get his own work, then.