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Currently, i'm working on my first major story for this site, and well, any story period. I've really wanted to make me debute on the site as good as possible, but i'm starting to find it hard to find the will to work on. 

Half the time, once I am about to finish a page, my computer deletes it and has no way of recovering it, and its so soul crushing to lose that whole page, and I end up just tossing it to the side for the rest of the day. But, then, I also find that this huge ambitious project, which has about fifty pages now, is starting to become hard to write about. I feel like I don't have the same state of being when I first wrote it, so that it just feels that the rest of the story is going to be like "Super dark" to "Super happy" in a moment because of a difference in the day of writing.

I'm mostly just kind of needing that extra kick in motivation to keep trying it, but i'm not sure where to even look. I'm thinking about starting a side, sci-fi story (basically a more survival based game, I only have a vague plot in my head about it), which is basically going to be far from the modern day horror, and hoping that doing that will give me that extra kick to take another crack at that next page. Any suggestions of your own?

Write a shorter story?

No, seriously. I often have more than one (okay, a lot) of stories going on at one time. Then when I get stuck on one story, I go write on another. If you have a shorter story, you will actually finish that one quicker, too. That doesn't mean stop working on the big one. My real big one for this site has been in progress for about 6 months. I will be surprised if it is finished this year. But every week or so I get in there and write a bit on it, so it's moving forward. In the meantime, I've written a lot of other shorter stories that I think have worked out okay.

Write your story on an external program, like Microsoft Word or Google Docs, then copy and paste into the CYS editor. That way you won't lose your work every time the CYS editor times out. It's good practice as well, just in case the whole CYS site goes down. You'll have your work saved elsewhere.

Your first story shouldn't too ambitious, especially if you are working alone. That will just make it harder the farther along you are because you'll have too many things to keep track of. I'd say put this story on the side and work on something that requires less effort. Not saying you should make something cheap but plan out something much more manageable with a closer goal to achieve. I assume you planned out your first story so I'm certain you can do that on a much smaller scale.