Short Stories

I've figured it out. I am not writing a book. I've decided to try something different. I cannot quell the torrent of nagging ideas wishing to be written into stories. If I don't get them out of my head somehow, they just sit there festering in it like that soup in the fridge from two weeks ago that you avoid dealing with but will only get worse. The biggest problem with dealing with it has always been holding onto it long enough for it to develop or become absorbed into another story while allowing it to ruin many a night of sleep. Then it takes me forever to type it all out. However, if I don't try to develop these ideas as full blown novels but instead short stories, I can greatly speed up the process of bailing these things out of my brain. Shorter gestation, shorter writing, quicker cathartic release.


Yes, short stories. I've got around a dozen ideas right now and I've already finished writing two of them out fully. It's an eclectic gathering of Sci-fi and horror but mostly magical realism and the absurd. I suppose this means that I'll have to announce the release of a short story collection at some point in the future. And no this does not mean my novel writing days are at an end, merely on hiatus...

The brain is willing but the spirit is weak...

Glad this one's finally over. I want to take a break from writing books for a while. Perhaps that sounds funny because I don't consider myself a prolific writer. Six books in eight years and not one of them has broken a 70k word count. I can't type and I have hardly any free time, therefore it takes me forever to write anything. NaNoWriMo blows my mind. How does anyone have the time and mental constitution to write a book in a month? I like writing but it takes so much energy out of me. As a parent of two, I'm already exhausted all the time. Whenever I take on a project, even if it's just something I do on the side for fun, my brain is constantly thinking about it at all times until the project is finished. It's like starting a marathon that you can't quit. Maybe it's naive of me to think that I can "take a break" when so many of my projects are started because my inspiration has reached critical mass and essentially drags me kicking and screaming to the keyboard. And don't think that my brain was in want of more ideas when I hit the publish button for Phylum, because it wasn't. I guess what I'm saying is I want to plug my brain's ears and go la la la la la la la for as long as I can get away with it.

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After years of putting off getting a Twitter account, I finally made one and it was a jogging class of all things which forced me to do it. Oh well, as a writer, I should have one anyway.