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>>3960368
That's enough for now. Could keep going, I have this stuff saved in the hundreds, but I'd be up all night if I did.

Wrong. Don't drop it.
This grand story you have going on is what's been fueling your passion for creativity since highschool, possibly even childhood. There is a vast landscape of themes and ideas and characters living in your head, and if you let it go you will kill them, thus losing the foundations that support the soul of your artistry. That story that you've had going on since you were a retarded teenager is YOUR STORY, the purest expression of your originality and creativity -- that story is YOUR SOUL, and if you let it go you will become like every other dispassionate internet artist who grinds away their work for pennies. When that story dies, you die. Your soul dies. Your passion dies. Your art dies.

Don't let it go. Don't kill it. Evolve it.

The greatest advice any amateur storyteller can learn is to TRIM THE FAT. If it's not absolutely necessary, cut it. If it's interesting but ultimately does not serve the greater themes of the narrative, cut it. If it's a setpiece that you've loved and held onto since the very beginning, but now stands out in dissonance with the rest of the changing story, cut it.
The problem isn't that you won't let it go, the problem is that you won't let it change as you do. THAT'S why you doubt your work. You still think of your story as a figment of childhood, rather than an organic entity being shaped every day just as you are, maturing -- as you are -- like fine wine.

Maybe it will never come to print. Maybe you will never adapt it into the animated series you want it to be. But more importantly: maybe one day you'll realize that it never HAD to. Because that story was always for YOU. It was your conduit for growth. The spring from which you sourced your creative energy. The lifeblood of your artistic soul.

It's been with you since the beginning bro. Don't let yourself make it without it.