Not really. The way I create our stories, everything I do is for the story, not who I am as a person. So it really doesn't matter what stage of life I'm in, so long as I keep prioritizing what's best for the story then it's all good. There are been periods where I paused working on a story because something about the story's execution is no longer working or there's something I'm missing and distance/time gives me the ability to synch it up with it better with fresher eyes and a fresh mind.

Examples of this can be seen recently -- Sfeer Theory I have periodically gone through multi-years pauses on a couple times, the most recent since 2020 and I'm only now returning to it halfway into 2024. But before that I also had another 5-ish year break in there while I worked on Small Town Witch.

Gaze An Eagle Blind is a major example of this, as the characters/story has been with Muun and I since the beginning (like, 2007-2008) and it's only in the past couple of years we're finally embracing telling the story.

If anything, I grow INTO our stories more, but very rarely grow out of them. It's always been that with more wisdom and experience and technical improvement, the stories I work on become more accessible.

The only thing that I struggle with as far as longterm projects go has more to do with my bipolarity and trying to find a way to find some kind of work ethic consistency. Trying to find ways that aren't 2-3 week work bursts before hitting an oversaturation limit has been a bit of white whale of mine, so working on multiple projects at once kind of helps with that but not really ideal.

At most, the most discordant relationships I have with our stories is periods when my personal vibes aren't aligned with it -- like, to work on a noir story, having to think and create noir. But my interests rotate pretty often, I always return back fondly to something I want to see finished.