User blog comment:Gourd Roger/The Silent Wind Blows.../@comment-3387274-20160111193745/@comment-4080028-20160111205108

Yeah, that pretty much sums me up as well, except I don't really have the problem regarding 13th's attempt to keep canon intact. In my case, it's more along the lines of trying to figure out how the overall structure and design of The Jolly Pirates will be on this wiki before I really start doing any kind of writing. Once I get to that, time will tell how many chapters I pump out and how much activity I begin to stir up. Though I actually don't see me filling up wiki acitivity too much right now, since for some reason, I like the idea of introducing pages as they become relevant to my story or after they've made a debut appearance; be they characters, locations, weapons or Devil Fruits. That's why only Chris and Spike have pages as of now (they're the only ones whose pages are fully detailed and fleshed out, and seeing as I'm in the middle of writing the Spike Arc on Ship of Fools, I'm nowhere near updating and improving Timber yet.)

Of course, me being foolish me, I've also kind of divided up my attention among other wikis here and there too, so if I get heavily invested in something on another wiki, I'll most likely forget to check in on our Sea of Fools for a while, or will simply be too occupied to edit for the time being. So really, it's a tie between what 13th's said here and what you've said about people contributing to other things (me being on other wikis in this case.) And considering how happy I am over the years' worth of progress and development I've poured into my story on Ship of Fools, that wiki has become my highest priority for as long as I've been on Wikia, so it tends to eat up more of my time than any other wiki combined.

The only other reason I can think of however as to why I'm not as active here as I'd like to be is because I also have a much greater priority than any fanon story or projects I'm involved with. As I'm sure plenty of people know by now, because I can't seem to shut up about it, I'm trying to write a legitimate, real shounen manga that I pray someday becomes published, as writing manga is the dream career I'm working towards. Since this means I'd be working for a living and trying to keep a steady income going in order to support myself and anyone I may be living with at the time (like any responsible and productive adult in society,) that also means stuff like my One Piece fanon (pages, stories, etc.) would go quiet for very long stretches at a time, if not outright die off completely as I tend to the progress and development of my manga, Wild Hunt.

So yeah, when I'm not distracted by other fanon wikis or suffering writer's block as to what to do for my pages here, I'll most likely be working my butt off on trying to make the best manga I can possibly produce on my own, which I would like to say is waaay more difficult than writing fanon, as far as personal experience has taught me. Then again, I'm a perfectionist and have almost absurdly unrealistic standards for my manga, so that may explain things as well.

But with all that said, I would like to say I haven't given up on this wiki or completely ignored it, and am trying my best to come back here every so often to make more steady progress with my stuff (as well as do admin business when needed, naturally.) So as you can see by my activity today, I do plan to do more editing someday; it's just that the road to getting there and doing so is a very long, rough and and difficult path.