Here's the thing.
OpenGeoFiction has always been a really interesting idea to me. Collaborating with other people to essentially create a fictional Earth is such a cool thing to do, in my opinion. But, some of you may know that I have, multiple times, started mapping, lost interest, and come back again. I have just recently gained interest again, but I don't want to go through this cycle again. I think I have identified the main reasons why I keep losing interest:
I don't have a lot of free time to do this, and sometimes I just don't feel like mapping. I think I need to just accept that maybe I won't make edits for a little while, instead of simply giving up and saying, "well, OGF must just not be for me."
I need to find the things that interest me. I found myself, the last few times, getting quite bored at doing monotonous things that I feel like must be addressed before moving on, when they really might not.
I need to be okay with not being perfect. No real city is exactly perfect, and neither should an OGF city be. Of course, this should be within reason, it shouldn't just be stuff thrown around, but it doesn't have to be this perfect, symmetrical grid. Speaking of grids...
I think I have a problem with grids specifically. I live in the US, so grids kind of come naturally to me. I feel that they have to be perfectly aligned and spaced, because my thought is "well, in real life, if they had a grid, it would be perfect!" I think I should just choose to avoid grids altogether for the most part.
I think also having some sort of goal in my head for what the final city should look like would help.
So, most of that up there was mainly written for me, but I would like to ask the rest of you of your thoughts. How do you keep yourself interested? How do you overcome perfectionism?
And, where is potentially a good spot for me to make a city? Even though I've been registered for over a year, I'm certainly not going to ask for my own country. If there are any free, I could potentially get a "state" in that USA-like country that was being made around the time I last tried to come back. Well, maybe not a whole state yet, but aren't there some areas that are more collaborative?
One more thing I wanted to mention (I know this is getting quite long and isn't very coherent, but I hope you can stick with me) is that I live in the country, and have for quite a while. I can't drive yet either. It's not that easy for me to try to make some city that is like where I live, because, well, I don't live in a city. It's sometimes hard for me to even think of how cities usually work and the stuff they tend to have in them. Hope you get what I'm saying there.
I think I've said everything I wanted to say, so... thanks for sticking through this really long post, I guess?