First of all; I love your writing style. It's so lively, the pacing is great, the story arcs are beautiful. You just have a way with words. :) (And please count this as extra kudos for "Amaranth")
It's sad to hear that you feel pressured to write stories of a certain minimum length. I bet even your snippets are worth posting. Some things work better in shorter form, some in longer form.
I think your steps to write more sound very sensible. If you do well with time-pressure, that looks like the way to go. In one of my last postings I shared my experience with co-writing. It helped me to get back to writing on a story I haven't touched for months. It's also a form of pressure, because you know others are writing at the same time as well, so maybe that could be something worth trying (if you haven't already)?
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(And please count this as extra kudos for "Amaranth")
It's sad to hear that you feel pressured to write stories of a certain minimum length. I bet even your snippets are worth posting. Some things work better in shorter form, some in longer form.
I think your steps to write more sound very sensible. If you do well with time-pressure, that looks like the way to go. In one of my last postings I shared my experience with co-writing. It helped me to get back to writing on a story I haven't touched for months. It's also a form of pressure, because you know others are writing at the same time as well, so maybe that could be something worth trying (if you haven't already)?