If you write, you know how it is. Sometimes you'll get a case of writer's block and suddenly, you don't want to work on a story any more. So you shelve it for now, promising yourself that you'll go back to it later and finish it.
A year passes, and you're working on a different project. You can fly when you're working on this new idea, but trying to work with the older, halted stories is painful. You can't help but wince every time you try to work on it, since the drive to do so isn't there.
How does one get past this dilemma? Does one ever really get past it? I don't want to be the author with a dozen half-complete stories in my profile. Nothing annoys me more than reading a good story only to discover, once I've reached the end, that while the author is still active he hasn't touched that particular story in a few years.
I mainly ask because one of my earlier oneshots was continued by another writer, and I'm pretty close to offering up another story I don't see myself finishing for a couple years.
Um, discuss I guess. This didn't really have a point.